Cape Breton Tartan Blanket

Cape Breton Tartan

 Materials 4.5 mm crochet hook
700 g of green
400 g of light gray
200 g of black
200 g of yellow
all worsted weight.   I used Redheart Ss

 Chain 174 stitches. Double crochet in 4th chain from hook , chain 1 and skip next stitch now double crochet in next stitch repeat from chain 1 across you should have 86 spaces .

 Work base of blanket using the following colours

 12 rows green
  6 grey
  4 yellow
   2 black
    6 grey
4 black
2 grey
2 green
3 grey

Repeat twice for afghan ending with 12 rows of green

Weave starting from the right hand side.  Weave over under over, first row, then under over under and repeat across following above colour sequence

Add a nice fringe to bottom of each row.  I used five strands 10 inches long all the way across both ends.

This is not my pattern, it is a passed down pattern developed to replicate in colour only this beautiful tartan, and this pattern and picture are not to be sold.

3 grey