crochet pattern | star advent blanket
After a wait of four years, the Star Advent Blanket pattern is finally being launched today in time for the 2026 yarn advent season.
The pattern was designed and the sample made in 2022, it was intensively tested, tech edited and written up with charts, videos etc. Everything was basically ready to go, really ready to go, but then Potter & Bloom went on pause for four years and the pattern was put on the shelf.
Specifically designed for a yarn advent calendar, I used the Indie Yarn Club DK weight yarn advent calendar from 2021 and paired it with approximately 400g Rico Baby Classic DK in White (001).
You will need a 4mm hook and a yarn needle for sewing the blocks together. The blocks are sewn at the end of the square making process (rather than joined as you go) to give you the opportunity to lay the blocks out and find your preferred colour layout.
It took some time to get the right layout for the sample - shown below - and note the empty spaces will be filled with plain white blocks but these are not shown here. The trick to finding the best layout is to take an overhead picture each time, this makes it much easier to find the most pleasing arrangement.
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The design uses my two-colour mitred crochet square pattern laid out in a quilting block pattern called Entropy by Squats & Running Stitches. The colours used in the design sample are inspired by her 2022 #EntropyScrapAlong quilt-along promotional post shown here.
Summer Davis is the designer behind Squats and Running Stitches and she kindly gave me permission to use her Entropy pattern for this crochet design.
You can find Summer on instagram here and check out her quilting website at https://squatsandrunningstitches.com/
The pattern is provided in both UK and US crochet terminology and links are provided in the pattern to video tutorials for making the two-colour mitred square used.
Gauge is not critical but each motif should measure approximately 12cm x 12cm if you want your blanket to be the same size as the sample which has a finished full size of approx. 108cm x 108cm. You can of course use any DK weight yarn for this pattern and you can also hold two strands of fingering weight yarn together if that’s the yarn advent you have.
Once your blocks have been sewn together the pattern provides a pretty bobble border that is easy to work and frames the quilted look of the design perfectly.
The pattern is now available to buy on Ravelry by clicking below, there is an 25% introductory discount code for the pattern that will work until the end of November 2026, just use the code STAR25 when you checkout.
