Hey makers, no points for guessing how much I love to crochet bobble stitch blankets. Here’s one more from my basket of bobble stitch blankets and this one never gets old. Alphabets on a blanket are the ever-green trend in crochet blanket culture and you can do so many variations.

My first alphabet blanket was a granny square blanket where I did one alphabet per square and then stitched all of them together. My YouTube Fam loved this pattern and the entire playlist is available at HERE. 

The first video in my series is my best performing YouTube video till date – take a sneak peak below

After that I also made a “crochet-as-you-go” blanket where you didn’t need to make the granny squares and stitch them together rather you can just keep crocheting in one-go and still get the block effect. Here’s how this one looked

That brings us to my latest alphabet project which was requested by so many of you’ll and I couldn’t help myself from making it either. So here’s my crochet lowercase alphabet blanket and the entire pattern – Start-to-Finish.

For my lovely YouTube fam and for all visual learners I have an entire playlist showing you the row by row pattern so head over to my YOUTUBE channel – check it out and lets get hooked

Let’s start with the materials.

Supply List :
Yarn :
You can use any medium-weight acrylic yarn for this project. I would recommend any solid or self-stripping yarn.

I used two shades of purple in my favorite yarn – Caron Simple Soft 

One of them was in shade Orchid and the other is discontinued so I am not able to find the name.

I just more than 1 n half skein of each color but if you are using the same color then 3 skeins of 170gms each should suffice.

For the border I used Caron Simply Soft in color Dark Country Blue – and you need less than 1/2 skein of this color.

Other than the yarn you would need

• Tapestry needle
• Pair of scissors
• 4.5 mm crochet hook

Stitches Used :

ch – chain stitch. (yarn over | pull through)
sc – single crochet. (insert your hook | pull up a loop | yarn over | pull through both loops on the hook)
bob – Bobble stitch – 4 dc done halfway in the same stitch (*yarn over | insert your hook | pull up a loop | pull through first 2 * | Repeat * to * 3 times | yarn over | pull through 5 loops on hook )

Gauge:
18 sc stitches – 20 rows ~ 4 inch (10 cm)

Measurements:
Finished afghan size (with border) ~ 39 inch(length) x 27 inch (width)
* Finished size is of the afghan made using the materials listed above. The size may vary if a different yarn, hook, or gauge is used.
* Final size can also be customized by adding a few more rows of border if needed.

Notes :

→ The blanket can be made with any yarn and a complimentary hook size. I used 2 complementary shades but you can very well use 1 or multiple shades as you wish. I would however recommend using any yarn that has a good coverage – which means it doesn’t create gaps when you crochet so any medium weight acrylic yarn would best suit this pattern.
→ The concept of this pattern is to make bobble stitches on the wrong side of the blanket so they pop-up on the right side.
→ Every even row is a plain row of single crochet in every stitch and you should get 113 single crochets on every even row.
→ Pattern is written for right-handed crocheting.
→ All terms are mentioned in US crochet terms.
→ A pipe character (|) is used just to generate some space on the page and doesn’t represent any stitch.

Okay then, let’s start making this beautiful blanket !

Pattern For Rows 1-36

Start with the purple color and make a slip knot.

Foundation Row : 114 ch and start crocheting Row 1 from 2nd ch from the hook.

Row 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 : 113 sc (ch 1 & turn after every row)

Row 7 :  9sc | *(1bob | 1sc) x 7 | 1bob | 5sc * – Repeat * to * 3 more times |(1bob | 1sc) x 7 | 1bob | 9sc

Row 8 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 9 :  ch 1 & turn | 8sc | (1bob | 15sc | 1bob | 3sc) x 4 | 1bob | 15sc | 1bob | 8sc

Row 10: ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 11 : ch 1 & turn | 7sc | (1bob | 17sc | 1bob | 1sc) x 4  | 1bob | 17sc | 1bob | 7sc

Row 12 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 13 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc | (1bob | 1sc ) x 3| 1 bob | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc | (1bob | 1sc ) x 3| 1 bob | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 14 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 15 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 11sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 11sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 16 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 17 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1 bob | 1sc | 1 bob | 3sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 11sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 10sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1 bob | 1sc | 1 bob | 3sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 18 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 19 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 2sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 2sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 11sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 2sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 2sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 20 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 21 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 10sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 22 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 23 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 8sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 11sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 24 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 25 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 3sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 12sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 9sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 26 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 27 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 4sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 1sc | 1bob | 6sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 7sc | 1bob | 5sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 28 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 29 : ch 1 & turn | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc | (1bob | 1sc ) x 3| 1 bob | 6sc | 1bob | 19sc | 1bob | 19sc | 1bob | 19sc | 1bob | 6sc | (1bob | 1sc ) x 3| 1 bob | 6sc | 1bob | 6sc

Row 30 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 31 : ch 1 & turn | 7sc | (1bob | 17sc | 1bob | 1sc) x 4  | 1bob | 17sc | 1bob | 7sc

Row 32 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 33 : ch 1 & turn | 8sc | (1bob | 15sc | 1bob | 3sc) x 4 | 1bob | 15sc | 1bob | 8sc

Row 34 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Row 35 : ch 1 & turn | 9sc | *(1bob | 1sc) x 7 | 1bob | 5sc * – Repeat * to * 3 more times |(1bob | 1sc) x 7 | 1bob | 9sc

Row 36 : ch 1 & turn | 113 sc

Graph for Rows 1 – 36 :

• The purple cells represent Single crochet stitched (sc)
• The blue cells represent bobble stitches
• You will see the row # in the first and last column, only odd rows are represented here since for every even row you will make 113 sc.
• Read the graph left to right for every row.

 The tutorial for this part of the pattern is right here

So far so good, once you are done with these 36 jump right to the next bunch of rows here >>> PART 2

PS >> See the bunch of buttons at the end of this post for navigating between the different parts.

Take care, happy hooking!!!
-Anjana