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Simple bricks slot together to make a gorgeous blanket, perfect for a baby

(particularly a baby boy) or alternatively the basic brick pattern can easily be adapted to make a bag or cushion!

Bricks

Use up those odds

and ends from your

stash with this

easy, fun design...

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Abbreviations

Instructions

1) Ch 8 (counts as 5 ch base, then 1st dc), 1 dc into 4th ch from hook. Ch 2.

2) 2 tr into next ch.

3) 1 dc, ch 1, 1 dc into next ch.

4) 2 tr into next ch.

5) 3 dc into last ch. Ch 2 and turn work to work back in bottom of previous row.

6) 2 tr into next ch. (working into the stitches at the bottom of the 2 tr above)

7) 1 dc, ch 1, 1 dc, into next ch.

8) 2 tr into next ch. Ch 2

9) 1 dc into next ch (next to starting ch 3 and dc)

10) Sl st into top of ch 3.

11) Fasten off.

You will need...

Rico Essentials Cotton Aran

in various colours

4.5 mm hook

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If you know how, join the bricks as you go by working slip stitches into appropriate chain spaces on the

adjoining bricks. They can be joined in a staggered pattern, like a brick wall, or could be joined side by side.

Alternatively sew the bricks together.

To square the design square bricks are needed on some row ends.

These are worked as follows -

1) Ch 4 (counts as 1 ch and 1st dc)

2) Work the following into the 4th ch from hook - dc 1, ch 2, 3 dc, 2 ch, 3 dc, 2 ch, 3 dc, 2

ch, 1 dc. Join to top of starting ch 3 with a sl st.

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To make up into a baby blanket -

1) Join enough bricks to make the size you require for the centre panel. I did 15 rows of 8 bricks across.

2) Join cream into one of the joined spaces between bricks. Ch 4, sl st into next joined space. Ch 4 sl st

etc. Carry on around. At corners work an extra ch 3, sl st. into each corner space.

3) Work around and join with a sl st to first join. Sl st into ch space.

4) Work 4 dc into each ch sp (ch 3 for first dc). At corners work 4 dc, ch 2, 4 dc. Carry on around

joining into top of ch 3 with sl st.

5) Work as many rows as required, working a dc in each st and working 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc into each

corner. I worked 4 rows of dc in total.

6) Now work bricks around the edge joining them as you go with 4 cream dc sts between each join. If

you are not used to joining the bricks as you go you can sew them together.

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Finally finish the blanket with a row of single crochet worked in the back loops of the outer bricks,

working a sc into each of the stitches (even chain stitches) and ch 2 at each corner. Fasten off.