For such a long time I have admired knitted blankets made with the domino knitting method. I’m not a big knitter so I decided to stop envying knitters of their blankets and just make my own crochet version. The outcome is this pattern.

The Petrea Squares can be made for blankets, pillows, shawls or just whatever comes to mind

Domino Crochet squares are all connected. You start by making one square that is the corner stone of the piece. The next square is then connected to the first square as you crochet and so forth. In this pattern there are four types of squares. All squares are really the same except for the first row when the squares are connected to each other.

The squares are made from the bottom up.

Even though the squares are almost all single crochet stitches I never got tired or bored with it. By using Drops Delight, a gradient striping yarn, no square was the same and the look of the blanket kept changing and that kept me super excited about the project.

Blanket sizes - yarn estimation:
• 70 x 100 cm / 28 x 39 inches: 7 skeins of Drops Delight, 1 skein of Drops Fabel. (Estimate for a blanket that is 6 squares wide and 9 squares long, total 54 squares)

• 90 x 150 cm / 35 x 59 inches: 14 skeins of Drops Delight, 2-3 skeins of Drops Fabel. (Estimate for a blanket that is 8 squares wide and 14 squares long, total 112 squares)

• 140 x 180 cm / 55 x 71 inches: 28 skeins of Drops Delight, 4 skeins of Drops Fabel. (Estimate for a blanket that is 13 squares wide and 17 squares long, total 221 squares)