Kitty Kitty Love

Kitty Kitty Love Crochet Blanket

Project Overview

Kitty Kitty Love is a one-piece crochet blanket pattern designed by Gleeful Crocheting. This beginner-friendly blanket project combines simple single crochet stitches with decorative popcorn stitches to create a charted design that can be worked from a downloadable PDF pattern.

What is Being Made

This pattern creates a large blanket or throw using a single continuous piece of crochet work. The design is worked from a multi-page chart that requires taping pages together at designated overlapping areas, making it suitable for creating a substantial finished piece. The blanket features a combination of textured stitches that build visual interest across the surface.

Techniques Used

• Chart Reading: The pattern uses a graphical chart system where each box represents a stitch. White boxes indicate single crochet stitches, while colored or black boxes represent popcorn stitches. The chart is designed to be read directionally based on whether you are right-handed or left-handed.
• Directional Crochet: Right-handed crocheters read and follow the chart starting from the left side across each row, while left-handed crocheters begin from the right side, allowing for comfortable working in either direction.
• Multi-Page Pattern Assembly: The pattern spans multiple pages with shaded or red boxes indicating where pages should be taped together to create the complete chart.
• Row-by-Row Construction: All rows begin with a chain-one turning stitch (not shown on the chart). Odd-numbered rows consist entirely of single crochet stitches, while even-numbered rows feature popcorn stitches.

Stitches Used

• Single Crochet (sc): The foundation stitch used on all odd-numbered rows throughout the blanket, creating a dense, stable fabric base.
• Popcorn Stitch: A textured, dimensional stitch that appears on all even-numbered rows. The popcorn stitch is worked by placing four single crochets into one stitch, removing the hook and pulling up a loop, then inserting the hook from the back side into the first stitch of the four single crochets and pulling the loop through. This technique creates a raised popcorn texture on the right side of the work, adding visual and tactile interest to the blanket.
• Chain Stitch: Used to create the initial foundation chain and the turning chain (chain-one) at the beginning of each row.

Materials

This pattern is suitable for yarn in multiple weights, accommodating 4-ply, DK, Aran, and Worsted weight yarns. The specific yardage and color requirements would be detailed in the full pattern instructions. A crochet hook appropriate to your chosen yarn weight is required, with the hook size typically recommended based on the yarn weight selected.

Difficulty Level

Rated as beginner difficulty, this pattern is accessible to new crocheters. While it involves learning the popcorn stitch technique, the overall construction relies on fundamental crochet skills—primarily single crochet and chain stitches—combined with the ability to follow a charted pattern.