Cars and Trucks Crochet Baby Blanket Pattern – Written Row by Row + Chart

Cars and Trucks crochet blanket pattern – a 42 x 52 in (106 x 131 cm) baby and toddler blanket with six vehicles: a dump truck, a fire engine, a cement mixer and three little cars, framed by coloured stripes, worked in double crochet (UK) / single crochet (US) with colour changes. Skill level: intermediate.

What you get (17-page PDF)

• every row written out as simple colour counts

• a separate set of written rows for left-handed crocheters

• the full colour chart on one page, printable up to A3

• UK terms with US in brackets throughout

• the yarn, shade and amount for each colour

• a photo guide to the intarsia colour change

Materials: Stylecraft Special DK (100% acrylic, 295 m / 100 g) in eight colours, 13 balls; any DK (light worsted) yarn can be used. 4.00 mm crochet hook, tapestry needle.

Tension: 18 dc (UK) / sc (US) and 22 rows = 10 cm (4 in).

You need to know how to: work double crochet (UK) / single crochet (US) and change colour (intarsia).