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Crochet Bobble Stitch Pixel Blanket (Seattle Seahawks Blanket)

June 3, 2015

A cross between a pixel blanket and a graphgan, this bobble stitch acts as a pixel square, but like a graphgan, is crocheted in rows. No joining! I am from Seattle and we are huge fans of the Seattle Seahawks so I made this one for my oldest son. It took me about a week to make and it measure approx 42 x 27 inches. My graph has 51 squares across and 29 squares down. 
Just like any pixel blanket, perler bead patterns make perfect pixel graphs. Kandi Patterns is a great place for you to start looking for one! If you are also a Seahawks fan, you can download and print the graph I used HERE.
Now let me tell you how to crochet a bobble stitch pixel blanket! 
Materials:
– Worsted weight yarn. I used Lion Brand Vanna’s choice in Silver Grey, Dusty Blue, Navy, White, and Fern Green. I used about 4 skeins of grey, 2 skeins of navy, 1 skein of dusty blue and fern green, and 2 skeins of white.
– Size H crochet hook
– Tapestry needle
The blanket is made up of one row of bobble stitches plus single crochets and then a row of just single crochets. In my mind each pixel square is made up of one bobble stitch + SC and then two single crochets under that.

Here is the back of the blanket where you can see the “squares”
Here is a quick video on how to make a bobble stitch!

Your starting chain will be the number of squares across your graph, doubled, plus one. So there are 51 squares going across my Seahawks graph so my starting chain was 103. SC in second chain from hook and SC down the entire chain. Chain 3 and turn. 

Row 2: Bobble stitch, SC in next, repeat until end of row, chain 1, turn (you should now have the same amount of bobbles as the first line in your graph, in my case 51)
Row 3: SC in each stitch across (make sure you are only making two SC under each bobble), chain 3, turn
Row 4: Bobble stitch, SC in next, repeat until end of row, chain 1, turn
Row 5: SC in each stitch across, chain 3, turn
Continue this pattern making sure to change color yarn by following your graph. Like I mentioned above, each “pixel” is a bobble + SC and then two SC underneath so the SC stitches underneath will have to match the color of the bobble above it. 
Below are two videos on how I make color changes. Try to carry your yarn over by crocheting stitches over one or two colors… making it easy to pick them up again. 
I also had success with leave loose end strands long and then carry them up a row. If they sit close enough to the bobble, you can’t even tell there is a bit of extra yarn there.
As you can see in the picture below I struggled with color changes on the left hand side (beginning part of the blanket) but once I got into the swing of things I had less loose ends by the second half of the project.
I made a simple SC border around my blanket. On the first round of your border make sure you are only make 2 SC per bobble… especially along the rough edges. Extra SC stitches will make the edging ripple. At each corner you will SC + chain 2 + SC in one stitch. The first 4 rounds are silver gray, then 3 rounds of navy, 2 rounds of white, and one round of green. 
Oh and of course you all want to know what the back looks like!
The textures in this blanket are wonderful! 

I have a happy 12th man! 
If you like this you might like my Cupcake Pixel Blanket!
Find the tutorial HERE
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  1. Heather says

    June 3, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    I absolutely LOVE this! We are in Mississippi, but my husband is from Seattle originally and is a huge Seahawks fan. I've never used a graph for a pattern, but I am going to attempt to make one before football season starts back up. I will just add more rows to the borders so the blanket is big enough for him. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing!

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    • Annie says

      October 31, 2015 at 7:38 pm

      what do you do with the strands on the back?

      Reply
  2. lesleyana says

    June 3, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    honey, you have mad skills!!!! i love your photos and your patterns – thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Evelyn Vann says

    June 4, 2015 at 4:03 am

    This is absolutely awesome! But how can I crochet the picture bigger so that I get a larger blanket? Im about to attempt a hello kitty bobble blanket AND a pixel square version if my 2 toddlers allow me.

    Reply
  4. Evelyn Vann says

    June 4, 2015 at 4:18 am

    Never mind, I read your post about the pixel blanket. Since I can't adjust the size without distorting the image,I will just make regular granny squares which should result in a bigger blanket.

    Reply
    • Winter says

      April 18, 2016 at 8:47 am

      This is way better than a brick & mortar esbntlishmeat.

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  5. Evelyn Vann says

    June 4, 2015 at 4:50 am

    Never mind, I read your post about the pixel blanket. Since I can't adjust the size without distorting the image,I will just make regular granny squares which should result in a bigger blanket.

    Reply
  6. Lisa Ann Hurley says

    June 4, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    Love it! Now I am going to have to find a Tennessee Titans graph!

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    • Ma-wissa says

      June 19, 2015 at 3:48 am

      http://cdbvulpix.blogspot.com/2011/11/nfl-logos-and-name-plates.html?m=1

      This site has all teams!

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      • Amelia says

        September 19, 2015 at 12:00 pm

        Sweet! They have Carolina Panthers!

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    • Christiana says

      March 10, 2017 at 4:04 am

      The pucshares I make are entirely based on these articles.

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  7. Lisa Ann Hurley says

    June 4, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Love it! Now I am going to have to find a Tennessee Titans graph!

    Reply
  8. Jennifer Benfer says

    June 4, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    love this… I started a penn state graph-ghan for my mother in law last year and had a horrible time. I frogged it too many times to count…I started this yesterday and am a quarter of the way done already. thank you sooo much!!

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  9. Colour and Cotton says

    June 5, 2015 at 12:08 am

    Wow, you are so fast!! Love the look of this blanket, I'm really wanting to try a graphgan soon. Beautiful work!

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  10. Margaret says

    June 5, 2015 at 8:01 am

    This is a great boys blanket. Thanks for the clear videos and for the pattern.

    Groetjes, Margaret

    Reply
  11. bethany dearden says

    June 6, 2015 at 5:32 am

    That’s so awesome! It looks so cool with the bobble stitches. Amazing work!

    Reply
  12. Jessica P. says

    June 8, 2015 at 4:46 am

    I'd love to try something like this. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  13. Becca says

    June 14, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    That is so very cool! Thanks for sharing the pattern! GO HAWKS!

    Reply
  14. Small StitchShop says

    June 17, 2015 at 6:51 am

    This is awesome! (and since I *hate* seaming, perfect!) I'll have to do this, I think.

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  15. Ma-wissa says

    June 19, 2015 at 3:44 am

    I feel PRETTY foolish asking this.. But did you flip the original graph, or did you crochet it left to right.. For some reason I can't make sense of that so was doing mine right to left, and it's the team name so its backwards when I flip it over!

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    • Wendy says

      September 4, 2017 at 6:45 am

      I am almost finished with mine and realised mine is backwards. I am not figure out how I did that lol, did you figure out how to flip it?

      Reply
  16. Unknown says

    June 24, 2015 at 2:31 am

    v

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  17. Kara says

    July 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    I was wondering if I could get specific instructions on the border – Rows 1 and 2 of the single crochet border. I am having trouble figuring this out for some reason??

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  18. Breanne says

    July 14, 2015 at 1:43 am

    I am just about finished my bobbles and getting ready to start the border on my project and could use a little clarification, please. In the first round you say to do 2 sc in each bobble. Does that mean you're doing 3 sc for each square on the graph (bobble + sc = square), or just 2? I've put so much work into this project so far I don't want to mess it up now!

    Thanks!

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  19. Angela B says

    July 20, 2015 at 1:06 am

    Wow these are proffessional looking! I am inspired! Love the Snoopy one! Now I am going to have to attempt this! It makes a beautiful afghan! So impressed!

    Reply
  20. Liz Dowell says

    August 14, 2015 at 5:53 am

    I currently live in Denver but I'm from Seattle and I'm a HUGE Seahawks fan! I absolutely LOVE this! I hope one day I'm as good as you! I'm getting there! This is by far my favorite crochet page!

    Reply
  21. Lisa says

    October 7, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    This is so awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  22. GINA says

    November 13, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    Just found your site and al the COOL stuff. OMG, OMG, OMG…..a Seahawk blanket! You must be my neighbor if you’re in the PNW.

    Reply
  23. Patty says

    December 4, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Just started a hello kitty blanket for my daughter. Thanks for the great instructions!!!

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  24. Diane Chicklo says

    January 15, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Thanks Sarah. Going to try the robot graph I found today and these instructions will help.
    Thank you
    Diane

    Hope the newbee is doing well!

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    • Joan says

      March 10, 2017 at 4:42 am

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  25. Jen says

    February 22, 2016 at 9:04 am

    I love this pattern and I was wondering if you had any plans to create a ravelry page for it. I’d love to be able to link to the pattern. Thanks

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  26. ampka says

    March 30, 2016 at 12:59 am

    Wooow! It’s amazing!

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  27. Erin says

    August 22, 2016 at 6:21 am

    When doing the edging, do you just do 2sc per bobble, and ignore the sc row between bobble rows?

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  28. James Brewer says

    November 3, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    I have a quick question:

    I did one row of bobble like you said and the next is SC. Does that count as a row on my graph? The SC row.

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  29. JULIA says

    December 9, 2016 at 6:50 am

    Hi I am making a similar blanket for my Mum as a present. Thanks for the advise about the edging – now I have a plan. I was just wondering did you block this blanket and how?

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  30. Nikki says

    December 29, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    So are you supposed to do two rows of sc between each row of bobbles?

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    • Ruth says

      November 13, 2018 at 9:43 pm

      It’s only 1 row of sc!

      Reply
  31. Annette says

    January 7, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Any chance you’ll be revisiting this as a C2C graph?

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    • Alexis Valentine says

      September 15, 2018 at 5:00 am

      I actually have almost finished this as a C2C. I have 7 more rows of C2C to go as I ran out of yarn. I started it previously as she described and just didn’t like the way it was working for me. switched to this and it was a breeze. I may line the back with fabric as my back does not look as pretty as hers.

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  32. Ruth says

    November 13, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    Hi! I’m making this for my cousin and his soon-to-be-born baby (they live in Seattle!). I was wondering if you started the pattern from the top-left of the graph or the bottom-right. I really hope you will reply back!

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  33. CeLisa says

    March 24, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    Love this pattern. Do you think it would work the same way if I just wanted the central character on the graph bobbled.

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  34. Mary-Lynn says

    January 21, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    Loved the pattern. I made this for a friend I know who lives in Seattle and loves the Seahawks. She loves the blanket.

    Reply
  35. Lori says

    January 12, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    How would one go about grafting out the Ga. Bulldog?

    Reply

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