Golden Snitch Crochet Baby Blanket with Bobble Motifs

This Golden Snitch crochet baby blanket places small gold bobbles between white wing motifs on a gray single-crochet background. Alternating five-motif and four-motif bands stagger the pattern across the rectangle. A reverse-single-crochet edge gives the source sample a simple finish. The color pattern depends on keeping one hundred and twenty-nine stitches across every row.

Golden Snitch Baby Blanket original crochet project — Original project photograph from the supplied pattern.

Project details

Skill level	Intermediate colorwork
Size	No finished dimensions printed; measure the 129-stitch sample and row gauge.
Hook	5 mm
Source	Golden Snitch Baby Blanket, supplied five-page PDF.

Materials and gauge

Worsted yarn: source Berroco Comfort, six balls Ash Grey, one Ivory and one Goldenrod, 193 m / 100 g per ball; 5 mm hook, needle and scissors. Source gauge: 14 sc × 20 rows per 10 cm.

Prepare small accent yarn balls

The source recommends separate small balls for the white and gold sections to reduce long carried strands. Change colors on the final pull-through of the preceding sc. Carry the gray inside the motif stitches and keep its tension relaxed so the white wings do not draw inward.

Use US terms. The gold bobble is five unfinished dc in the same stitch, leaving six loops on the hook before closing them together. Finish with a chain 1 in gray. Count the completed bobble as one position in the row, not five.

Start the plain background

Chain 130 and sc from the second chain for 129 stitches. Rows 2–12 are plain sc, turning with chain 1 that does not count. Mark both edge stitches and count before the first motif band. A missing edge stitch makes every later wing placement shift.

Work the five-motif band

The first gold row has thirteen gray stitches at each edge. Each small motif is white 1, gray 2, gold bobble, gray 2, white 1. Place seventeen gray stitches between motifs. Five motifs plus four gaps and the two margins total 129 positions.

Source row	Edge margin	Wing / center / wing	Gray gap
13	13	1 white, 2 gray, bobble, 2 gray, 1 white	17
14	12	4 white, 1 gray, 4 white	15
15	10	5 white, 3 gray, 5 white	11
16	9	5 white, 5 gray, 5 white	9

Use five wing groups on each row and four gaps between them. Read the chart in the direction of the row being worked. The separate source chart shows the wing shape and is included as the construction reference image.

Golden Snitch Baby Blanket original pattern detail — Original project photograph from the supplied pattern.

Stagger the next band

Rows 17–28 return to plain gray sc. The next motif band, rows 29–32, uses four motifs with larger edge margins: twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-two and twenty-one gray stitches respectively. The motif widths and internal gray gaps remain the same as the first band.

Rows 33–44 are plain gray. Repeat rows 13–44 three more times for rows 45–140. Then work rows 13–28 once more for rows 141–156. Keep a written row tracker so a band of plain rows is not accidentally shortened.

Finish the edge

Row 157 is reverse sc around the perimeter, using one stitch per top or foundation stitch and evenly spaced stitches down the row ends. The source lists one corner stitch in that round, so work a sample and keep the turns relaxed rather than automatically adding a large shell corner.

Golden Snitch Baby Blanket construction checklist — Editorial construction checklist based on the source; this is a reference card, not a finished-project photograph.

Check the colorwork and optional decoration

The source suggests four gold pompoms as an optional finish. The blanket is structurally complete without them, and omitting separate decorations gives a simpler handled fabric. Weave accent tails into their own motifs and check that the bobbles stay on the same face throughout.

The supplied file does not state a finished width and length. Calculate from your blocked gauge and the actual rectangle before adding the border. A colorwork sample is also useful for confirming how much gray can be carried without showing through the white wings.

Frequently asked questions

How many stitches are across the blanket?

One hundred and twenty-nine, with the turning chain kept separate.

How many motifs are in a band?

The first type has five; the staggered type has four and wider gray margins.

What is the bobble definition?

Five unfinished dc closed together, followed by a gray chain-one finish, counted as one row position.

Pattern and photograph credits

Golden Snitch Baby Blanket, supplied five-page PDF. Photographs show the supplied source projects. Crops, rotated photographs and editorial checklists are identified in their captions. Any stitch-count or terminology clarification is identified in the relevant section.

Open the original Golden Snitch Baby Blanket.pdf pattern reference in Drive — Whole PDF. Keep the original pages beside this guide for the detailed diagrams and any section specifically referenced above.