My mom used to love making us all (my siblings and I and our children) beautiful crochet blankets. We all have a variation of one in particular. It is a reversible blanket that looked like a series of little squares made using double crochet where the posts are interlocked, woven, interlaced or what ever other language you want to use.
When my mom passed away a few years ago, I kept a little swatch of this pattern in case I ever wanted to try to make it.

Mom’s swatch
I had made one of these blankets with her guidance 29 years ago. I was pregnant and I was trying to get it finished before my baby was born. It was one of thee most frustrating experiences of my crochet life up to that point. It’s a super simple pattern to make once you get going. After all, it’s just double crochets. But if you mess up, it’s like ripping back two blankets because of how it works up. Equally, it took me a long time to make it because it’s like making two separate blankets at the same time.
So it took me forever to make it and when I messed up, it hurt even more to rip it back. And it was only a baby blanket so it wasn’t that big. Admittedly, I was a lot slower then than I am now and I didn’t know how to fix my mistakes. All I knew how to do was rip back to fix a mistake. Now, I would finish much more quickly and I would know how to fix it and keep going without having to rip.
Needless to say, I felt on the verge of tears when I was working on it, thinking I would never finish it in time. I did though. I didn’t give up and I finished it right before my daughter was born (I think she still has it lying around somewhere). The satisfaction I felt when I finished it can’t be described but lets just say I was extremely happy it was done and I never made another one.

This is my daughter’s blanket. It’s a little beat up because it’s 29 years old!
Fast forward many years and my mom started making them for everyone. My daughter got several new ones and my son got one.

This is my son’s. He loved orange and picked the colors. He was about eight or nine. He’s 17 now and he’s still using it. 🙂
We all loved (and continue to love) them. When mom passed, I had no desire to make any. I’ve since figured out how to make other blankets she’d made but not the ‘squares’ one even though I have the swatch.
More recently, I’d say within the last two years, I went on an internet search looking for the pattern. I tried all kinds of language looking for it and never found it. I always told myself I could probably figure it out from her swatch but I wasn’t 100% sure I could. What if I undid her work in an effort to make one and couldn’t? Her work would be unraveled and I wouldn’t have the swatch anymore. Then it would be lost! So I never undid it and kept searching the internet.
Then one day within the last six months or so, a blogger I follow wrote a post about that same pattern! I was so excited. The name for it was so simple that I thought I would never forget it. I was going to respond but I got distracted and forgot about it. Then when I remembered, I couldn’t remember which blogger it was. I spent hours and hours searching through all the blogs I follow looking for it and never found it (if you’re that blogger, let me know who you are!). At first, I searched the ones I thought most likely to have posted it and then I searched through all of them going back months, to no avail. I finally gave up and tried to remember the title she used to describe it. It was something like interwoven double crochet but that didn’t bring up what I was looking for.
Then a couple of days ago, I tried searching the internet again, using as many descriptive words as I could and I found one video on YouTube! It’s mostly the right pattern and I got busy working up a swatch.

My swatch
Then I went looking for my mom’s swatch to compare and I couldn’t find it! Oh no! At least I know it’s here somewhere. I must have put it someplace safe, so safe I can’t find it. Heh! But at least I know how to do it now. Luckily I took a picture of the swatch and used that to compare to my swatch.
Mine is slightly different. Mom’s edges look better and neater. I need to find her swatch so I can make the adjustments. I think she started her’s a little differently than what I found.
I am so grateful for that video but I think I’m going to make my own version. Her video is very long and I think I can make one that is a little more condensed but still useful. I also want my video to match my mom’s pattern (as soon as I find her swatch). Plus I worry that the video could disappear and I would be out of luck again. At least if I shoot my own, I’ll always have it. It certainly can’t hurt to have more than one tutorial on the pattern. 🙂
Very cool! This is now on my list of things to try.
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That’s awesome! I think mom would love that you want to try it out. 🙂
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Well in a few decades when I finish my current afghans, your mom will shine her light a little on me, because I’m set on doing this. I like this concept a LOT.
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Wow, now that’s what I call commitment! Hope you hear from the blogger 🙂 I’m sure the blanket will be beautiful whether you do or not.
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Thank you 😊 worst case scenario is I border the heck out of the piece and no one will ever know the edges aren’t the same.
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What a lovely tribute to your Mom, Yolanda 💕
I’m all cross eyed over your sons orange blanket 😍 I’m gonna have to give this pattern a try, so I’m waiting for your instructions. No pressure 😅
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Thank you 😊No need to wait though. I linked the video I found. I probably need to make the link more obvious though. Lol Although I’m going to work on it to get the edges to match my mom’s, even though I can’t find the swatch. I think I can figure it out from the picture.
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The link has been noticed 😊 I’d rather wait for your version…in the hope that there might be written instructions. 😋 I’m not a huge fan of videos 🤓
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Ok, I”ll come up with a written pattern. 🙂
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That’s fabulous! And so are you 😍 Thank you so much! If it’s okay with you I’ll use it in my Crochet-Along and tag you and your blog in the post 🤗
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That sounds great. Now I just have to make sure I write up a good pattern. No pressure! LOL
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None at all 😅
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Glad you tracked down the video. Good luck finding the swatch (I also ‘lose’ things in safe places!). And I think your own video would be a lovely tribute to your mum 🙂
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I’m been looking for that swatch like crazy. It has to be here somewhere. 🙂
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Well I really hope you find it 🙂
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I found it today! So excited.
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Yay!
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It is so very frustrating when you can’t find the instructions for a stitch you love. It is a very interesting stitch. It looks like your mom’s swatch was made with a smaller hook, maybe that would help?
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Mom definitely liked the smaller hooks. I didn’t discover anything larger than an H hook until well into my twenties. She had given me a G hook and I made everything with a G hook. 😂
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I hope you find your mum’s swatch soon. It’s so frustrating to lose things. I hope you can figure out the rest of the pattern too. Keep going… It’ll be worth it in the end 😊
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Thank you. 🙂 At least I know how to do the middle now. Looks like one edge looks the same but the other edge doesn’t. If I can’t figure it out, at least I have the most important part of the pattern.
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Oh, that is a fabulous stitch! I love it! I’ll be on the look out for your tutorial on this.
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It’s so easy too, once you get the hang of it. I still need to get the hang of it but I’m working on it. 😋
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I’m guilty of loving a g or h hook, I never use larger hooks even when the pattern calls it because I like the feel in my hand. The pattern is gorgeous and is now on the bucket list to do. I’m sure your mom is smiling.
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I’m hoping she gives me a little nudge on where I hid the swatch! Surely she can see where it is. LOL
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That is a great pattern!
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It is nice. We all took it for granted when mom was alive. I wish I had placed closer attention.
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It happens. We tend to think moms are omnipotent and will always just be there.
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I love the way this looks Yolanda! I hope you do make a tutorial – I want to learn this stitch pattern!! I wonder if your invisible prankster hid your swatch? Maybe look in your husband’s office. 😀
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It’s so funny you mentioned our prankster because my husband and I were joking about that. My husband said I might come into my office and find it neatly laid out on my keyboard. 😂
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It’s beautiful 🙂 can’t wait to see your video! Do you already have your YouTube channel running?
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Yes. I have a few videos up already. Hopefully I can figure this one soon so I can get a video up. 🙂
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I need to follow you! I’m going now to subscribe to your channel 🙂
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Thank you! Hope you like them. So far my family and friends have told me they like them but they don’t count. 🙂 Making more vídeos was on my agenda this summer but that was one of the things I didn’t tick off my list.
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