Harry Potter Crochet Blanket

So you want to want a Harry Potter crochet Blanket – and are looking inspiration?

Welcome! This was the blanket I made my Son a good few years ago now, and here are some Tips, Links, and Information on yarn choice which will hopefully make your blanket go smoother and quicker than mine!

This was a beast of project.

I started it in July, and finished it Christmas eve (I think we’ve all been there haven’t we!)

If you want to save this for later – please Pin it using the picture below to make sure you can find out how I made it.

Harry Potter Crochet Blanket Design

Blanket Size

I knew this design was going to be Corner to Corner crochet. I love this technique to give a great texture that isn’t too “Holely”

>>>If you want to learn about Corner to Corner Crochet I have a great beginners crochet video here.

I used a 4 mm (G) hook, USA Double crochets as the stitches, and the squares turned out 40 x 40cm (16×16 inches)? for the individual squares.

Now doing the math – 4 squares across x 4 squares up = 160 cm x 160 cm. This blanket is pretty big!

If this will be too large for you – you could always try HDC as the stitch to make it smaller.

>>>You can read here about the different sizes for the Squares for one of my designs

Yarn

For this I chose an inexpensive Double Knit (Light Worsted Weight Yarn). Stylecraft Special DK.

This is a 100% acrylic yarn, that is very hardwearing, and can be put in the washing machine (so plus points there!)

You could also go for Deramores own brand – as another alternative. Again 100% acrylic and machine washable.

Colours – I had a few plays here, I thought I was going to go very bright, then started the 9 squares – and ended up with a Claret Red Instead!

I tried to use the same main colours throughout – one for the cost of the yarn, but also to keep the blanket consistent.

Double Knit (Light Worsted Weight Yarn). Stylecraft Special DK.

Black – 3 balls

Claret (Gryffindor) – 3 balls

Lemon (Hufflepuff) – 3 balls

Green (Slytherin) – 3 balls

Denim (or Aster) (Ravenclaw) – 3 balls

Gold

Walnut

Silver

Grey

Copper

White

Toy

For the Main Central Harry Potter Crest crochet Square – please click here for the details

If you are new to C2C, and not sure about what will seem like a million colour changes- I suggest you make the squares in this order. This isn’t what I did – I finished on the easy ones as I was running out of time!

Lightning Bolt:

Denim and Gold

>>>If you want to try something C2C to get to grips with it first – this is a great project using the diagonal lines to their best effect.

Wand

Green, Walnut, Lemon and Gold.

Broomstick

Lemon, Walnut, Gold.

Snitch

Gold, grey, silver, Claret

The Hogwarts houses charts

Note here – I followed the main chart – but after spending what seemed like an age – I decided not to do the black lines on the charts. Follow the chart at the end of this page, but omit all the Black lines if you want yours to look like mine.

Gryffindor

Claret, gold and walnut

Hufflepuff

Lemon, grey, silver, white, black, gold

Slytheryn

Green, Silver, black and Claret

Ravenclaw

Denim, Walnut, gold, black

9 3/4 Sign

Claret, Gold, black

Dobby

Toy, Green, Grey, Black, white

Hedwig (Warning – she was really hard, with so many ends!)

Lemon, Black, White, Grey, Silver

Fawkes (Another warning – really hard square – so many ends to sew in !)

Denim, Claret, Copper, black, walnut

The main square – you can read all about here and how I made it. I attempted it first, in hindsight – Imay have been better waiting a little later on in the project. You live and learn!

>>>You can get all the charts here to make this project.

I still haven’t done a border for this blanket – I might, black and gold I think….. if I get around to it at some point.

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