Best Chunky Yarn for Crochet Blanket: Basketweave Crochet Pattern

What is the best chunky yarn for crochet blanket patterns? The best yarn is Bernat Blanket Yarn or Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick Yarn.

The best chunky yarn for crochet blanket patterns is easy to use, doesn’t split easily, is machine washable and inexpensive.

Favorite Bernat Blanket Yarn: Best Chunky Yarn

Bernat Blanket Yarn is the best chunky yarn because it comes in lots of colors and is inexpensive.

Pros

• Inexpensive
• Lots of different colors and variations
• Soft Chenille
• Large skeins
• Works up quickly
• Easy to find
• Doesn’t split
• Gauge 6 Super Bulky yarn weight
• Can be washed in a washing machine
• 100% polyester yarn

Cons

• Chenille can be hard to work with
• Needs long tails to weave end
• Doesn’t look good with complicated stitches

Favorite Wool Ease Thick & Quick Yarn: Best Bulky Yarn for Blankets

Pros

• Easy to use
• Lots of different colors
• Easy to Find
• Gauge 6 Super Bulky yarn weight
• Nice natural fibers wool look

Cons

• Expensive for a blanket
• Part wool can cause skin irritation
• Small skeins
• Can spilt
• Have to weave end lots of ends for a blanket

There are other bulky yarns that are great for blankets. Some of my favorite best yarn for bulky or super bulky blankets are Lion Brand Hue & Me Yarn (category #5 bulky), Premier Serenity Chunky (category #5 bulky), Caron Chunky Cakes (category #6 super bulky), Lion Brand Jiffy Yarn (category #5 bulky), and Lion Brand Basic Stitch Antimicrobial (category #5 bulky).

All of the yarn that don’t have natural fibers can be washed in the washing machine. If they have wool natural fibers they mostly need to hand washed or on cold and line dried.

Caron Chunky Cakes, Premier Serenity, Lion Brand Basic Stitch Antimicrobial, and Lion Brand Jiffy Yarn are all made out of not natural materials so if you have skin allergies these would be a great choice. They are usually made out of acrylic but not all.

If you are looking for lots of colors together Caron Chunky cakes is a good choice. The yarn is easy to work with and comes in many pretty color combinations.

How Many Skeins of Yarn for a Chunky Blanket

For Bernat Blanket Yarn, I usually use 8 skeins of 10.5 oz to make a throw that is approximately: 42 in x 74 in or for 5 skeins: size of blanket: 46 in x 56 in.

For Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick Yarn, I used 22 skeins for a 44 in x 64 in.

The simpler the stitch and using tall stitches like half double or double crochet will lower the amount of your you need. The more complicated stitch and dense stitch you use the more skeins you will need.

The best way to figure out how many you need is to do a 5 in square of the pattern and then measure how much yardage you used and divide it by the yardage of the skein. Then figure out how many 5 in squares would fit in the blanket you want to make.

Example if you would do a 20 in x 20 in blanket you would need 4 squares across and 4 squares down for a total of 16. You then figure out how many were in each skein and how many skeins you would need.

Basketweave Crochet Blanket Pattern

Using the Best Chunky Yarn for Crochet Blanket

Materials Needed

• scissors
• tapestry needle
• 10 mm crochet hook
• 8 – 10.5 oz (300 g) Bernat Blanket Yarn in Terracotta Rose or any super bulky gauge 6 yarn 220 yds (201 m)

Abbreviations – US Terms

• yo – yarn over
• st/sts – stitch
• ch – chain
• hdc– half double crochet
• fpdc– front post double crochet
• bpdc – double crochet back post
• dc– double crochet
• slstbl– slip stitch back loop only

front post double crochet stitch – yarn over, insert the hook behind the post from the front, yo, pull up a loop, yo, pull thru 2 loops on your hook, yo, pull thru remaining two loops on your hook. For more info here, from yarnspirations.com.

back post double crochet stitch – yarn over, insert the hook from the back of the post, yo, pull up a loop, yo, pull thru 2 loops on your hook, yo, pull thru remaining two loops on your hook. For more info here, from yarnspirations.com.

Left Handed Rice Stitch How To Tutorial Video

Right Handed Rice Stitch Crochet Pattern Video

To make the blanket larger or smaller use a chain with an even number. Free Printable PDF towards the end of the post.

For this pattern you are doing alternating rows of half double crochet and slip stitches. There are 3 rows of each of the half double crochet and slip stitch.

On the half double crochet row you skip the slip stitch row and go back the the half double crochet row from before. This makes the slip stitch row turn out and show the top stitch texture.

This is followed by 9 rows of the rice stitch. Which is shown in Row 8. The alternating rows and the rice stitch is repeating twice.

Then, there is another group of the half double crochet and slip stitch. The middle is 16 rows of the rice stitch.

After the middle of the blanket you repeat the first side so it mirrors the beginning section.

Blanket Size: 55 in x 71 in

Written Chunky Blanket Pattern

Ch 100

Row 1: hdc in the 3^rd st and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Row 2: Slstbl in the 1^st stitch and in each stitch across. Chain 2 and turn.

Row 3: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row of below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Row 4: Slstbl in the 1^st stitch and in each stitch across. Chain 2 and turn.

Row 5: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Row 6: Slstbl in the 1^st stitch and in each stitch across. Chain 2 and turn.

Row 7: dc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Row 8:  hdc in 1st st. *fpdc around next stitch, bpdc around next st; repeat from * until you have 2 sts remaining. Fpdc, hdc in top of turning ch. Chain 1, and turn.

Rows 9-15: hdc in 1st st. *fpdc around next stitch, bpdc around next st; repeat from * until you have 2 sts remaining. Fpdc, hdc in top of turning ch. Chain 1, and turn. Last row chain 2.

Row 16: hdc in the 2nd st and in each st across. Chain 1 and turn.

Rows 17-30 : Repeat Rows 2-16.

Rows 31-36: Repeat Rows 2-7.

Rows 36- 51: hdc in 1st st. *fpdc around next stitch, bpdc around next st; repeat from * until you have 2 sts remaining. Fpdc, hdc in top of turning ch. Chain 1, and turn. Last row chain 2.

2nd Part

Row 52: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Rows 53-58 Repeat Rows 2-7.

Rows 58- 65: hdc in 1st st. *fpdc around next stitch, bpdc around next st; repeat from * until you have 2 sts remaining. Fpdc, hdc in top of turning ch. Chain 1, and turn. Last row chain 2.

Row 66: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Rows 67-72: Repeat Rows 2-7.

Rows 72- 79: hdc in 1st st. *fpdc around next stitch, bpdc around next st; repeat from * until you have 2 sts remaining. Fpdc, hdc in top of turning ch. Chain 1, and turn. Last row chain 2.

Row 80: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Rows 81-85: Repeat Rows 2-6.

Row 86: Hdc in the 2^nd st 1 row below and in each stitch across.

Cut the yarn and knot. Weave in all ends.

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