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Stadium Blanket: Free Crochet Pattern

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The weather during football season can be all over the place. To ward off the cold during the chilliest of outdoor games, take the Stadium Blanket with you in your favorite team’s colors! With a clever slit to keep your entire body wrapped up warm, you’ll love your blanket made using this free crochet pattern.

stadium blanket crochet pattern

Football Stadium Blanket

This free crochet blanket pattern was designed to keep the outdoor sports fans warm during games. Made with a slit in the middle of the blanket, we can wrap ourselves up with the top half, and cover ourselves up with the bottom half. How genius is that?!

Example of how to wear the Stadium Blanket

Stadium Blanket being worn by a sitting adult

Backside of the Stadium Blanket

Of course you could use this at home, too. If you’re the type that is always cold, or you have someone in your family that is, this would make for an excellent gift idea. Wrap up in the Stadium Blanket to watch your favorite show or movie. It is even large enough for two!

Make it a solid color if you like, or in multiple colors as I have done here.

Stadium Blanket in Chiefs colors

For this blanket we are using a bulky weight yarn. I chose Brava Bulky in the Kansas City Chief’s colors, Red, Canary, and White.

This blanket pattern would work up just fine if you decide to use a worsted weight yarn instead. The sizing would still be plenty large, and the slit in the center should still be wide enough for most adults to use the blanket as intended.

Stadium Blanket

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Materials:

Brava Bulky Yarn (approx. 3900 yards total)
-approx. 2350 yards of Color A
-approx. 850 yards of Color B
-approx. 700 yards of Color C

Crochet hook in size 8mm

If desired, a worsted weight yarn would also work nicely with a 6mm hook.

Gauge: 9 sts x 12 rows = 4โ€ square using Alternating Sc Spike Stitch

Finished Blanket Dimensions: 60″ (152 cm) wide x 72″ (183 cm) tall

Pattern Notes:

Pattern written using US terms.

The chain at the beginning of each row does not count as a stitch.

There is a slit in the center of this blanket that should be about 30โ€ wide.

Pattern uses Alternating Single Crochet Spike Stitch.

Ssc = Single Crochet Spike Stitch

Fsc = Foundation Single Crochet (tutorial here)

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Color changes:

Rows 1 – 24: Red
Rows 25 – 28: White
Rows 29 – 38: Yellow
Rows 39 – 42: White
Rows 43 – 66: Red
Rows 67 – 70: White
Rows 71 – 80: Yellow
Rows 81 – 84: White
Rows 85 – 108: Red
Rows 109 – 112: White
Rows 113 – 122: Yellow
Rows 123 – 126: White
Rows 127 – 150: Red
Rows 151 – 154: White
Rows 155 – 164: Yellow
Rows 165 – 168: White
Rows 169 – 192: Red
Rows 193 – 196: White
Rows 197 – 206: Yellow
Rows 207 – 210: White
Rows 211 – 234: Red

Pattern:

Row 1: Fsc-136 (or ch-137, sc in second ch from hook and in each to end). (136)

Rows 2 – 116: Ch-1, turn, sc in first 2 sts, Ssc over next. * sc in next st, Ssc over next * repeat between * * to end. (136)

*should be about 38โ€ tall

Row 117: Ch-1, turn, sc in first 2 sts. * Ssc over next, sc in next * repeat between * * 15 more times. (34 sts so far) Ch-67, sk-67 sts, sc in next st. Repeat between * * to end. (136)

Row 118: Ch-1, turn, sc in first 2 sts, * Ssc over next, sc in next * repeat between * * 15 more times. Ssc over next st. (35 sts so far) Sc in each ch across. Repeat between * * to end. (136)

Rows 119 – 234: repeat row 2 (136)

Fasten off and weave in all ends.

Stadium Blanket

You’re now ready to go cheer on the team in style, and staying WARM, too! I hope you love this blanket. If you’d like to just make a blanket that does NOT have a slit to use this way… simply continue on for the entirety of the pattern, omitting the slit and the following row.

What colors will you use to make yours? Share a photo with me by tagging @HeartHookHome across all social media. I can’t wait to see!

 

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  1. Iโ€™m making this but instead of several small color changes (relatively speaking) Iโ€™m using some off-white yarn I got 11 balls of for $8 at a thrift (smells fine, no bugs! I checked, donโ€™t worry) , and bought yarn to put big fat stripes of bright pastels, so off white, then pink, off white then orange etc through the rainbow, with the split in an off white section and Iโ€™ll pick up and crochet a few rows on either end of the split just so if I use it straight as a lap blanket thereโ€™s no large slit just hanging out as *Iโ€™m* hanging out on the sofa ^_^ I did pick up more off white just to make sure this is big enough as a worsted vs bulky for my 5โ€™9โ€ frame, which Iโ€™ll use at either end so if the color is off it wonโ€™t be as noticeable. This is a cool idea Iโ€™d never even thought of as a chronic bundler! Iโ€™m looking forward to making this!
  2. Iโ€™m using worsted weight. How would I determine the gauge and stitch count cause 9 stitches with size 4 yarn and 6mm hook got me nowhere near gauge swatch size. Just trying to figure out how many stitches to get the right size? Thanks!
    1. This would be a simple formula based on your 4โ€ square. Say for instance your square is 12 st x 16 st, this is 30% more stitches than listed gauge. So your cast on would be 30% more stitches. So it would be 136*(1.3)=176.8, round up to even stitch count for 178, or 137*1.3=178.1, round up for odd or 179. Change 1.3 to be This would be a simple formula based on your 4โ€ square. Say for instance your square is 12 st x 16 st, this is 30% more stitches than listed gauge. So your cast on would be 30% more stitches. So it would be 136*(1.3)=176.8, round up to even stitch count for 178, or 137*1.3=178.1, round up for odd or 179. Change 1.3 to be Place the slit where you want it length wise if youโ€™re tall or short, and make it 30โ€ wide or as wide as you need for it to be comfortable, proceed as pattern specifies stitches for. To place it appropriately, for example as far as width goes: 60โ€-30โ€=30โ€, 30โ€/2=15โ€ on either side as that makes the start and finish of the slit equidistant from each side . 60โ€-xโ€=yโ€, yโ€/2=zโ€, zโ€ is equidistant from each side, z*width gauge is stitches from each side to begin the slit, and x*width gauge is how many stitches to make the slit. Make it a whole number, round up or down to make it what looks like an even number as the pattern is written, here itโ€™s 34, so it would be for example 34*1.3 (the example gauge Iโ€™m using here) is 42 stitches. I hope that helps!
  3. I couldnโ€™t get the star stitch but I made this with dc instead Iโ€™d love to attach photo but Iโ€™m not sure how