Crochet Halloween Haunted House Blanket

I got an idea to make a few other versions of my Winter Cabin Blanket! The snowy house that is featured at the center of the winter cabin blanket, can easily become other cute seasonal houses. I’m starting with this Halloween Haunted House version and then I have an adorable Gingerbread House to make next!

I think we could make a whole set of Holiday Houses! If you have ideas for other houses, please leave suggestions in the comments. My mind is already going towards a Barn and a Beach House.

I am using the Corner-to-Corner crochet technique to crochet the houses. You could also make this as a Single Crochet Graphgan. After I finish the C2C house, I am going to use simple stitches to create a large border similar to the one in the Winter Cabin Blanket HERE.

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner (C2C) Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it. You can take a pixel graph and turn it into a crocheted piece. By starting in one corner of the graph (the lower right hand is most common place to start), you will crochet crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 

Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial that might help:

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on ETSY) graciously wrote out the C2C pattern AND the Single Crochet Pattern! Thank you Jenny!

For this Halloween House, I have two versions: A house with a full moon and a house with a crescent moon.

Get the FULL MOON written pattern and single crochet pattern PDF HERE

Get the CRESCENT MOON written pattern and single crochet pattern PDF HERE

I am using Red Heart Super Saver in colors: Black, Medium Purple, Pale Yellow, and Gold and a size H crochet hook. Shop the Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com

I am working on the crescent moon version and will update this post with the border and final blanket when it’s done. I just wanted to make sure you had the graphs and patterns so you could get started. It’s the perfect project for an October night!

Now let’s get started on the BORDER! I am so excited to have figured out how to include a row of BATS along the edging! Follow along below and I will post pictures when I am finished with the blanket.

Border Round 1:
SC in the spaces between each “pixel square”, chain 2 in between each SC. When you get to the corners make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each.

Border Round 2:
Make 2 SC in each chain 2 space all the way around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Border Round 3:
Switch to black yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 4:
Switch to gold yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 5:
Switch to yellow yarn
SC in each stitch around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Fasten off yellow yarn after joining to first SC in round.

Border Round 6:
Join yellow yarn to corner, make a SC + chain 2 + SC in corner.
SC in first 7 stitches, join in black yarn, make 2 HDC in next stitch, switch back to yellow, SC in next 7, 2 HDC in next stitch, continue around. Do not make 2 HDC with black in the corners. You will end with about 7 stitches (if you have an extra stitch or two before the corner, that is ok!), make a corner (SC + chain 2 + SC), make another 7 stitches, and then start with the 2 HDC along straight edge.

You should have the start of 7 bats along each straight edge of the blanket.
Carry the yarn as you go.

Border Round 7:
Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in corner.
SC with yellow until you get to two stitches before your HDCs.
Skip a stitch and *with black yarn, make 2 DC in the stitch before your 2 HDCs, chain 2, make 2 DC stitches in the stitch right after your HDCs, skip a stitch, switch back to yellow, make 3 SC between each bat, skip a stitch and repeat from *

You should have 3 SC stitches in yellow between the bats and about 7 SC stitches before and after each corner. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Fasten off black yarn after this round.

Border Round 8:
with yellow yarn
Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
SC in each stitch along edge but skip over the black yarn DCs and make 3 SC stitches over the chain 2 space and the middle of those 2 HDCs from round 6. Skip the next 2 DC made with black, continue to SC in each stitch and make 3 SC stitches between the bat wings.

Border Round 8:
with yellow yarn
SC in each stitch around, make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner, join

Border Round 9:
Switch to gold yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 10:
Switch to black yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 11-16:
Switch to purple yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 17:
Switch to black yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 18:
Switch to gold yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.

Border Round 19:
Switch to yellow yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.
Fasten off or continue to DC in rounds using any sequence of colors.

The finished blanket is about 38 x 38 inches so you will want to continue to crochet in rounds if you want a larger afghan.

Add crochet bats to the corners!
I came up with this easy bat applique a few days ago and it works perfectly on all 4 corners of the blanket as an alternative to pom-poms or tassels.

GET THE EASY CROCHET BAT APPLIQUE PATTERN HERE

Look how fabulous this blanket turned out! I love these colors of Red Heart Super Saver together. I can’t wait to see your version!

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