This crochet plaid blanket pattern is inspired by Taylor Swift’s Evermore album. Cozy and rustic in style this blanket is the perfect winter project to cozy up under! Available as a free crochet pattern, this crochet plaid blanket is easy to crochet and easy to customize!
If you’ve been following me around for any amount of time then you know that my favorite Taylor Swift album is Evermore (I’m even listening to it right now hehe). For quite awhile I’ve wanted to create a design inspired by this album that has brought so much inspiration and comfort for me. I spent months thinking about it with no inspiration for the perfect design. One day while I was driving and listening to “Champagne Problems”, all of a sudden I heard the line “November flush and your flannel cure” and I knew I needed to create a plaid blanket design and call it the Flannel Cure blanket!
Despite this blanket looking complicated with the plaid design, it’s surprisingly very easy to make! Each square is crocheted individually (with only 1 stitch used!), and then they’re all seamed together. I will be honest though, seaming all of the squares is a time consuming, but totally worth the final product!
I used the coat on the album cover as inspiration for the plaid design and colors. While this isn’t my usual color palette, I love how it has a 70s vibe to it. I drew my color inspiration from Evermore, but you could easily make this blanket with your preferred colors (how pretty would it be to use different shades of pink in this blanket?!)
For the yarn, I used Cascade Yarns Pacific Worsted. This is one of my favorite wool/acrylic blends as it’s extremely soft and easy to crochet with. Additionally, the color range available is incredible, with so many beautiful colors!
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Skill Level: Easy
Materials
Yarn: Worsted weight (#4) yarn. I used Cascade Yarns Pacific Worsted in the following colors:
- Burnt Cinnamon (large squares): 8 skeins or 1,554 yards
- Rust (small border squares): 6 skeins or 1,278 yards
- Semolina (small corner squares): 2 skeins or 426 yards
Hook: US I/5.50mm
Notions: Tapestry needle
Notes
- The pattern is worked in US crochet terms.
- All of the squares are worked individually and then seamed together
Measurements:
Width: 50 inches
Length: 61 inches
Gauge: After 3 rounds of the square, it should measure 3 inches across
Abbreviations:
St: Stitch
Sl st: Slip Stitch
Ch: Chain
Sc: Single Crochet
Dc: Double Crochet
Pattern
Large Squares
Make 30 squares
Make a magic circle. Ch 2.
Row 1: *3 dc into magic circle. ch 2* repeat for a total of 4 clusters. (12 dcs). Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 2: *1 dc in 3 sts. In the ch space work [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc]* repeat around. (20 dcs) Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 3: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last st. (36 dcs) Sl st into the first st, ch 2.
Row 4: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last 3 sts. (44 dcs). Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 5: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last 4 sts. (60 dcs) Sl st into the first st, ch 2.
Row 6: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last 6 sts. (68 dcs). Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 7: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last 7 sts. (84 dcs) Sl st into the first st, ch 2.
Fasten off and weave in loose ends and block squares.
Small squares
Make 142 squares in the rust and 42 squares in the Semolina
Make a magic circle. Ch 2.
Row 1: *3 dc into magic circle. ch 2* repeat for a total of 4 clusters. (12 dcs). Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 2: *1 dc in 3 sts. In the ch space work [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc]* repeat around. (20 dcs) Sl st into first st, ch 2.
Row 3: *1 dc in every st. In the ch space work [2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc]* repeat around. Work 1 dc in the last st. (36 dcs) Sl st into the first st, ch 2.
Fasten off and weave in loose ends and block squares.
Assembly
You can assembly this blanket anyway you’d like. Feel free to whip stitch, mattress seam, or slip stitch the squares together, which ever method you prefer the most will work just fine for this blanket!
I used the slip stitch technique of laying the right sides together and slip stitching through the stitches back loop of the stitch (indicated by arrows.
Assembly Order
Because of the nature of this plaid design, assembly is a bit more complicated. Below are the steps I did to assemble the blanket and to minimize the amount of ends to weave in.
Step 1
Using your preferred technique (see previous page for details), attach the squares across the width following the arrows.
Step 2
Next, attach the squares together along the length, following the arrows.
Border
Round 1: With the main color (Burnt Cinnamon), attach the yarn at the corner and evenly single crochet around the blanket working 2 sc into every corner.
Round 2: Work 1 sc into every stitch and work 2 sc into each corner
Fasten off and weave in loose ends.
I hope you enjoy crocheting the Flannel Cure Blanket! Be sure to tag me on Instagram with your cozy blanket, I would love to see it!
xo, Grace
So so beautiful, both the blanket and its maker. This blanket really caught my eye, and I got ideas of doing it in a different color scheme. This is really beautiful work. Keep up the great work!