The There You Go Throw is a two tone join as you go blanket made of 6-inch squares – graphic, eye-catching, and so much fun to crochet! And it’s a free crochet pattern here on Moogly!

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Fans of My Big Fat Greek Wedding might understand the inspiration for the name! When I was trying to come up with a name (always the hardest part!), I was talking to some friends about how it reminded me so much of Greek graphic patterns – especially the colors! – and the movie came up. My friend Terri loves it as much as I do, and we decided to quote the character Gus, who loves to explain how things are Greek (even things that aren’t), and always ends it with “…there you go!”

Much like some of Gus’s explanations, this blanket isn’t Greek, but it is join as you go (aka quick to crochet), based on the basic granny square, and ready to make in any size desired for the perfect gift or personal pick-me-up – so There You Go!

There You Go Throw

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• US – K, 6.5 mm – Furls Crochet
• 1480 yds Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice (Aran/yarn symbol “4”/UK: 10 ply; 145 yds; 3oz)
  Color A: White – 5 balls
  Color B: Sapphire – 5 balls
• Stitch Markers – Clover
• Gauge: Each square is 6″ x 6″
• Size: 36″ x 48″ before border (customizable, see sizing info below)
• Crochet Abbreviations
• Helpful Tutorials: Magic circle; How to keep a magic circle closed; blo (back loop only); Join with sc; Seamless joining
• Get this pattern and the yarn to make it in a Lion Brand Kit (or continue to the pattern below!)

NOTES:

• I’ve included 4 versions of Round 6 below – be sure to use the instructions for the correct finish for your squares!
• To make the blanket as shown, make 24 squares as written, and then make 24 squares switching Colors A and B for the two-tone look for 48 total squares.
• SIZING INFO: Each skein of Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice has enough yarn to make 6 squares, so one skein each of Colors A and B will make 12 squares. I used 4 balls of each color for the squares, and parts of the 5th balls of each for the border.
• To avoid chaining at the beginning of each round, you can substitute a Chainless Starting Double Crochet stitch for the chain 2 and first dc of the round.
• When you remove the hook from the active loop at the end of Round 2, put a stitch marker in the loop to avoid it pulling out while working Round 3. It is also helpful to put stitch markers in the corner stitches while working the border.
• Alternate squares when joining at Round 6 – see the layout below:

SPECIAL STITCH:
Join with a fptr: Holding the tail of the yarn in your palm, yarn over 3 times, insert hook around post of indicated stitch as for a front post stitch, yarn over and pull up loop, [yarn over and pull through two loops] 3 times.

ROUND 1- 5 INSTRUCTIONS:

Round 1: With Color A, make a magic circle, ch 2 (does not count as a stitch here and throughout), [3 dc, ch 2] 4 times in the ring; join. (12 dc)

Round 2: Ch 2, dc in the first st, ch 1, skip 1 st, dc in the next st, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the ch sp, *dc in the next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, dc in the next st, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the ch sp; repeat from * around, join and remove hook from loop (place marker in loop). (24 dc)

Round 3: This round is worked into Round 1, in front of Round 2. With Color B, join with fptr in 1st st of Round 1, ch 7, skip next st, fptr around next st, ch 3, *fptr in next st, ch 7, skip next st, fptr in next st, ch 3; repeat from * around, join to top of first fptr, break Color B. (8 fptr)

Round 4: This round is worked into Round 2, moving Round 3 back and forward as directed. Insert hook in active loop of Color A (remove st marker), then working behind the Color B ch-7 section, ch 2, dc in 1st st, ch 1, skip the ch-1 sp, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip next st, dc in next st, then working in front of the next Color B ch-3 section, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner ch-2 sp, *then working behind the next Color B ch-7 section, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip the next st, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip the next ch-1 sp, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip the next st, dc in the next st, then working in front of the next Color B ch-3 section, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner ch-2 sp; repeat from * around, then working behind the first Color B ch-7 section, dc in the next st, ch 1, join. (32 dc)

Round 5: Ch 2, dc in the 1st st, *[ch 1, skip the ch sp, dc in the next st] 2 times, ch 1, skip the next st, dc in the next st, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner ch-2 sp, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip the next st, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip the next ch sp; repeat from * around, join and break yarn.

ROUND 6 INSTRUCTIONS – STAND ALONE SQUARE (TO MIX WITH OTHER SQUARES FOR A CUSTOM PROJECT)

Round 6: With Color B, join with sc in the blo of the 1st dc after any corner ch-2 sp, sc in the blo of next 36 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 7 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp, *sc in blo of next 7 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 7 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; repeat from * around, join and break yarn. (64 sc, 4 hdc)

ROUND 6 INSTRUCTIONS – 1ST SQUARE OF THERE YOU GO THROW (INCLUDES JOINING SPACES TO BE USED LATER):

Round 6: With Color B, join with a sc in the blo of the 1st dc after any corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 2 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp, *sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; repeat from * around, join and break yarn. (56 sc, 4 hdc)

ROUND 6 INSTRUCTIONS – JOINING TO ONE SQUARE OF THERE YOU GO THROW (1ST ROW SQUARES AND 1ST SQUARE OF EACH SUBSEQUENT ROW):

Round 6: With Color B, join with a sc in the blo of the 1st dc after any corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 2 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, sc in corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in corner ch-2 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, sc in corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, sc in corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in next corner ch-2 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, sc in corner ch-2 sp, *sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; repeat from * once, join and break yarn. (56 sc, 4 hdc)

ROUND 6 INSTRUCTIONS – JOINING TO TWO SQUARES OF THERE YOU GO THROW 

Round 6: With Color B, join with a sc in the blo of the 1st dc after any corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 2 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, sc in corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in corner ch-2 sp of 1st block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, sc in corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, sc in corner ch-2 sp, remove hook from loop, insert hook in next corner ch-2 sp of 1st block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in corner ch-2 sp of 2nd block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, sc in corner ch-2 sp,  sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in matching ch-1 sp of block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, sc in corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, remove hook from loop, insert hook in corner ch-2 sp of 2st block to be joined to, reinsert hook in loop, ch 1, sc in corner ch-2 sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, hdc in the next Color B ch-7, skip the next st, sc in blo of next 3 sts, ch 1, skip the next ch sp, sc in blo of next 3 sts, (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; join and break yarn. (56 sc, 4 hdc)

That’s a wall of text eh? Let’s break it down for a minute before we get to the border:

• We’re working in the back loop only (blo), except for corners.
• Each corner gets a (sc, ch 2, sc). The sides are 3 sc, ch 1, skip 1, 3 sc, hdc in the same color ch-7 loop from Round 3, skip the st behind the hdc, then 3 sc, ch 1, skip 1, 3 sc.
• You join at the corners and at the ch-1 sps on either side of the hdc.
• When you are joining squares, work in the same direction you crochet. So if you are joining to two squares, you’ll join to the right bottom corner of the square above, then the ch-1 sps, then the left bottom corner of that square, then the top right corner of the square to the left, then those ch-1 sps, then to the bottom right corner of that square.

BORDER INSTRUCTIONS:

Round 1: With Color B, join to any outside st with a sc, sc in each remaining stitch around, working 19 sc into the side of each square (including the corners), and 3 sc in each blanket corner; join. (536 sts)

Round 2: Ch 1, hdc in each st around; join and break. (544 sts)

Round 3: With Color A, sl st in each st around; join and break. (544 sts)

And as they say, there you go! (You had to know that was coming…) That’s the There You Go Throw free crochet blanket pattern. You can make just one 6″ square using the first version of Round 6, or make the full pattern by using the other 3 versions of Round 6! It can look intimidating all written out, but it’s really pretty simple, and I hope you’ll give it a try! I can’t wait to see what colors you choose, and what projects this square sneaks into!

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