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Bright Star Blanket

By Sandra Paul

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Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
Bright Star Blanket
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Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino

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Cascade Yarns 220 Sport

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Product Description

An elegant and timeless filet crochet style bedspread, echoing a classic vintage style. This rectangular blanket is worked flat with an applied border.

Skill Level

Intermediate towards Advanced

Basic stitches used throughout, to create a simple blanket pattern and a more complex border. Experience in working an applied border would be useful although extra help and photos are given.

YARN

Drops Baby Merino: 26 balls - 50g191 yds (175m) 100% merino yarn

Yarn Substitutions - 5000 yards (4572m) of sport weight/light dk yarn

NOTIONS

Yarn needle 21 x stitch markers

ADJUSTING SIZE

Only one size is provided in this pattern. However, some other suggested sizes have been given as a useful starting point for making adjustments.

Bright Star Blanket
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Bright Star Blanket by Sandra Paul

Project Overview

The Bright Star Blanket is an elegant and timeless filet crochet style bedspread that echoes classic UK vintage aesthetics. This rectangular blanket is worked flat with an applied border, combining simple foundational stitches with a more intricate border design to create visual interest and sophistication.

What Is Being Made

This project produces a full-sized crochet bedspread featuring filet crochet construction. The blanket is rectangular in shape and designed as a timeless home décor piece suitable for bedroom use. The design incorporates both straightforward central patterning and a more detailed applied border that frames the main body of the blanket.

Crochet Techniques

  • Filet Crochet: The primary technique used throughout this pattern, creating an open, lacy aesthetic characteristic of vintage-style bedspreads
  • Flat Construction: The blanket is worked in rows across a flat surface rather than in the round
  • Applied Border: A separate border is worked and then attached to the completed blanket body, allowing for precise finishing and dimensional detail
  • Chart Reading: The pattern includes chart directions alongside written instructions, enabling crocheters to follow visual representations of stitch placement

Stitches Used

The Bright Star Blanket employs basic crochet stitches throughout the main body to create the simple blanket pattern, with special stitches incorporated into the more complex border design. The pattern includes a dedicated section on special stitches and provides a crochet stitch directory for reference. Both written directions and diagrams are provided to guide stitch execution.

Materials and Specifications

  • Yarn: Drops Baby Merino, 100% merino fiber in sport weight/light DK weight. The pattern calls for 26 balls of 50g (191 yards/175 meters each), totaling approximately 5000 yards (4572 meters) of yarn
  • Hook: 3.5mm (US Size E) crochet hook
  • Yarn Substitutions: The pattern includes guidance for substituting alternative sport weight or light DK weight yarns if Drops Baby Merino is unavailable

Skill Level and Pattern Support

Rated as Intermediate/Advanced, this pattern is suitable for crocheters with prior experience. While basic stitch knowledge is assumed, the pattern provides extensive support through tutorial photos, written directions, and detailed charts. Experience with applied borders is beneficial, though the pattern includes extra help and photographic guidance for this technique. Size adjustment options are also available for customizing the finished dimensions.

Pattern Format and Resources

This is a downloadable PDF pattern from independent designer Sandra Paul, published by Cherry Heart. The comprehensive guide includes 18 pages of content featuring written instructions, 9 pages of charts, 11 tutorial photos, and links to a crochet stitch directory for additional technique support. The pattern also covers finishing techniques such as weaving in ends and provides guidance on join-as-you-go methods.

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Specifications

Brand: Independent Designer
Yarn Weight: Sport
Featured Products: Cascade Yarns 220 Sport Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino
Pages: 36
Designer: Sandra Paul
Craft: Crochet
Format: Downloadable PDF
Languages: English
Notes: You will need approx 21 stitch markers (although safety pins would also do the job!)
Number of Patterns: 1
Skill Level: Intermediate

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LoveCraft makes it so easy!

I am a HUGE Cherry Heart fan - she writes her patterns in such a way as to make following without confusion easy and create an item that looks just like the one she made as the model. Best of all, if she makes the very rare mistake writing a pattern she is very quick to remedy and reissue the corrected pattern. This pattern is the same as all her others - excellent - I've begun the blanket and look forward to having the finished item in my home.

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