Move Mountains

Move Mountains Crochet Blanket by Gleeful Crocheting

Project Overview

Move Mountains is a one-piece crochet blanket pattern designed by Gleeful Crocheting. This intermediate-level project creates a textured throw blanket using a charted design that combines single crochet and popcorn stitch techniques. The pattern is provided as a downloadable PDF with a multi-page chart system.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single-piece crochet blanket or throw. The design is worked from a comprehensive chart that guides the crocheter through the entire project without requiring assembly of separate pieces. The blanket features a decorative pattern created through the strategic placement of textured popcorn stitches against a foundation of single crochet.

Crochet Techniques and Stitches Used

Primary Stitches:

• Single Crochet (sc): Forms the foundation and base of the blanket. Every odd-numbered row consists entirely of single crochet stitches. Each white box on the chart represents one single crochet stitch.
• Popcorn Stitch: Creates textured, three-dimensional elements throughout the design. Popcorn stitches appear only on even-numbered rows and are indicated by colored or black boxes on the chart. The popcorn stitch is worked by placing four single crochets into one stitch, removing the hook to create a loop, then inserting the hook from the back side into the first of the four stitches and pulling the loop through to form the characteristic popcorn texture on the right side of the fabric.

Chart Reading and Pattern Instructions

The pattern uses a detailed charted system where each box represents a specific stitch. White boxes indicate single crochet stitches, while colored or black boxes represent popcorn stitches. Red or shaded boxes show overlapping areas where multiple chart pages connect together, indicating where to tape pages during assembly of the full pattern.

Directional Guidance: The chart accommodates both right-handed and left-handed crocheters. Right-handed crocheters read and follow the chart from left to right across each row, while left-handed crocheters read and follow the chart from right to left. This ensures that both groups can work the pattern comfortably and achieve the intended design.

Starting the Pattern: After creating the initial chain foundation, work begins at the bottom of the chart. The first row is always a single crochet row. All subsequent rows begin with a chain-one turning stitch, though this turning chain is not represented on the chart itself. Color changes are introduced from the first row, with the initial chain and first row of single crochet worked in the color indicated on the left side of the chart.

Yarn and Materials

The Move Mountains pattern is suitable for yarn weights ranging from DK weight through Worsted weight, including 4-ply, Aran, DK, and Worsted options. This flexibility allows crocheters to choose yarn based on desired blanket size and drape. The pattern requires a crochet hook appropriate to the selected yarn weight, as specified in the full pattern instructions.

Difficulty Level

This pattern is rated as intermediate difficulty. While it uses fundamental crochet stitches, the popcorn stitch technique and the requirement to follow a detailed multi-page chart make it suitable for crocheters with some experience beyond absolute beginner level. Familiarity with reading crochet charts and executing popcorn stitches correctly is beneficial for successful completion.