breaking amish crocheted afghan pattern by betty mcknit

Please respect my copyright and do not share my graphs. The entire graph is part of that pattern. If you would like a graph of the straight start and squared off edge, please purchase the premium version of the 6-Day Viral Kid Blanket. I won’t include the entire graph, because graphs are stolen from my page and that damages my business. The graph on this page should help clarify this visually. After we chain our straight edge and work the first few rows, we will begin increasing stitches to create the points of the chevrons. It requires more stitches to form an angle (chevron) than it does to make a straight line.

“But wait,” you say, “Those numbers don’t work! How do I get from 13 stitches per point, to 17?” Multiply 13 by the number of points you would like and add four at the end. The formula for the straight start is 13+4. One is for turning and two are to account for the difference between the ends of the rows and the valleys not being the same. Multiply 17 by the number of points you would like, and add three at the end. The formula for figuring chains for the regular chevron start is 17+3.

The “afterthought” square-off of the bottom edge is still a fine option, but the straight start is a really nice touch. It works fine, but I thought, if I want a straight edge on my blanket, and I KNOW I want a straight edge on my blanket, I should be able to START that way. It was easy enough to square off the top of the blanket, but the bottom was an after-the-fact add on to the chain edge. Seems totally unnecessary! But I kept getting asked the question again and again, and so one day I figured it out and published a pattern for it. Why would anyone ever want to do that? I thought. One of those updates, or maybe I should call it an add-on, was a pattern to “square off” the top and bottom of the 6-Day Kid Blanket (a chevron blanket), in other words to fill in the “valleys” on the pattern to have a straight edge on the top and bottom. Many of the patterns updates and variations come at the request of crocheters making my patterns. Stylecraft Special DK in Royal, Storm Blue, Cloud Blue, and White If you purchase something using one of these links, we may receive compensation or commission.Ībout the 6-Day Kid Blanket Straight Startĭid you know that you can now start your 6-Day Kid Blanket with a straight edge? Well, you can! Here is the blog post with my instructions for how to do it.

Breaking amish crocheted afghan pattern by betty mcknit