The Ethan Throw – A Tunisian Crochet Pattern with Two Colors

It’s time for another Tunisian crochet pattern! Meet the Ethan Throw – a blanket featuring a beautiful stitch and self-striping yarn that creates the perfect lightweight blanket to snuggle up under.

You can purchase a printable PDF of this pattern at our shop here or Etsy here.

I’m continuing my quest to create as many different crochet blanket patterns with self-striping yarn as possible. I didn’t really plan to make this a thing, but it’s now a thing.

Here are a few of my other patterns featuring this yarn:

• The Bryn Blanket
• The Autumn Ombre Scarf
• The Kona Coast Throw
• The Seaside Shawl
• The Lanai Blanket
• The Let’s Go Camping Blanket

And if that’s not enough, here’s a round-up of even more self-striping yarn patterns from around the interwebs.

Yep, needless to say, I’m a bit obsessed.

It probably has to do with the fact that I love stripes, but I don’t like weaving in a bunch of ends. 😉

Right now, I’m working on another crochet camping blanket to celebrate the beginning of the camping season. Most likely it’ll be with self-striping yarn, but we’ll see…

The Ethan Throw

The Ethan throw is made using a solid gray colored yarn and a beautiful Mandala self-striping yarn that features blues, greens, yellows, purple and red.

If you’re familiar with Tunisian crochet stitches, you just might recognize the smock stitch.

I’ve been wanting to make a blanket with this stitch forever but knew I wanted to mix it up a little and not just do a solid color.

After a few experiments and some smock stitch practicing, the Ethan throw was born.

I also made one of these blankets with cream yarn and another Mandala colorway.

The Ethan Throw Tunisian Crochet Pattern

Description:

The Ethan crochet throw is all about two things: color and texture. You’ll be amazed at how lightweight this blanket is and how fun it is to snuggle up under. It is a very delicate stitch, so be careful with this throw around young kids and pets.

Notes:

• Finished size measures 42 ” wide x 55″ long
• To change the width, chain any even number
• To change the length, simply add more rows
• Please note that you will change colors before the Return Pass
• Video tutorial for pattern HERE
• I recommend practicing this stitch on a small swatch before starting the blanket

Materials:

HOOK(S)

7 mm Tunisian hook with long cord

5.5 mm crochet hook for border

YARN

Weight 4 • 1 skein, 1020 yards

Lion Brand Pound of Love, Oxford Gray

Weight 3 • 2 skeins, 590 yards each

Lion Brand Mandala in Sphinx

NOTIONS

Scissors

Tapestry needle

Abbreviations:

ch chain

rep repeat

Tss Tunisian simple stitch

Tss2tog Tunisian simple stitch 2 together

yu yarn under

FwP forward pass

RetP return pass

Lts Last Tunisian stitch

sk skip

sl st slip stitch

st(s) stitch(es)

Special Stitches:

Tss

With yarn in back, insert hook under front vertical bar from side to side, yo, draw up loop.

Tss2tog

This is a simple stitch decrease. Insert your hook in the next two vertical bars and bring up a loop

yu

Instead of yarning over, bring the yarn to the front of your work (as for Tunisian purl stitch) and hold the yarn in place on your hook when you pull up a loop

Lts

insert hook under both vertical bars of the last stitch and complete as for Tunisian simple stitch

RetP

ch 1, *yo, pull through the next 2 loops*, repeat between * and * until only one loop remains on the hook

Smock stitch video tutorial HERE

Pattern:

Color A: Oxford Gray

Color B: Sphinx

Foundation row With color A, Ch 150

Pull up a loop in the back bump of the 2nd ch from hook and each remaining ch, (150 loops on hook)

Switch to Color B

RetP

Row 1 *Tss2tog, yu* repeat from * to * to last st , working the last st as for Lts

Switch to Color A

RetP

Rows 2 Tss 1, *tss2tog, yu* repeat from * to * to last 2 sts, tss 1, working the last st as for Lts

Switch to Color B

RetP

Rows 3 and on

Repeat rows 1 and 2 until blanket measures 54 inches or until desired length, ending with a gray yarn row

Bind off

Sl st with gray yarn in each vertical bar across to bind off

For border

With 5.5 mm crochet hook, attach gray yarn to one of the corners, *2sc in first stitch, sc across to last st, 2 sc in last stitch, 2sc in first st on next side*, Repeat from * to * until all four sides are complete, ending with 2sc in last corner, sl st to first sc

Weave in all ends.

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