Stitch In. Give Back. Start 2026 with Heart.

Start your new year with purpose and stitches that matter. New Year, New Blankets is a global charity crochet along where our Yarn Over Hook community will create and donate cozy blankets to charities in their local community. Join our first annual community charity event!

About Our 2026 Blanket!

We all know how much I love blankets! Give me a blanket where I’m able to learn a bunch of new techniques AND have a finished product in the end? ✨Absolutely yes, and I wanted to design a beginner-friendly blanket that would do that for you as well! When you finish this sampler style blanket, you will have gone through 11 different stitches, a fun yet subtle seam, and a quick and easy border. I would not blame you if you ended up making another one for yourself!

Schedule

For 6 weeks over 13 livestreams, we will go over the 11 squares featured in this blanket, with the remaining 2 livestreams at the end dedicated to seaming the squares and adding the border! Each pattern will be released on the corresponding livestream day.

Important Dates

December 16th – Introducing our blanket! Let’s chat about everything you’ll need to know. Watch the livestream! From here until Jan 10th, you’ll have time to grab your yarn and tools!🧶
January 10th – February 14th – Every Tuesday & Saturday will be a new stitch! We will walk through each of them together during a livestream with the pattern and instruction. Don’t worry if you miss one! The recordings will be saved to our channel!✨
February 17th – Let’s seam our squares together! We’ll walk through a fun technique that I’m sure you’ll be using in your next projects!
February 21st, Final Stream – Let’s kiki and add the last touch! On our final day, we will walk through a fun and simple border to complete your blanket, chat about our charities, and talk ideas for the next year’s blanket!

Get the full stitch schedule with links to the livestream below!

Materials

There are three sizes available for this pattern!

Large: 12 in x 12 in squares, 48 in x 60 in blanket
Medium: 10 in x 10 in squares, 40 in x 50 in blanket
Small: 6 in x 6 in squares, 24 in x 30 in blanket

Yarn

I used Premier Yarns Anti-Pilling Everyday Worsted for this pattern, but feel free to grab your favorite worsted! We will be using 4 colors: A (cream) – main color; B (green apple), C (clay), & D (lake) – complementary colors. Follow our color scheme, or pick your favorite colors– there is no wrong way! The yarn amounts leave plenty of extra room for you to customize seaming and border colors!

Large
- Color A – 1,620 yds
- Color B – 540 yds
- Color C – 540 yds
- Color D – 540 yds
Medium
- Color A – 1,350 yds
- Color B – 450 yds
- Color C – 450 yds
- Color D – 450 yds
Small
- Color A – 810 yds
- Color B – 270 yds
- Color C – 270 yds
- Color D – 270 yds

Hooks & Notions

5 mm (H) hook for the squares and border
5.5 mm (I) hook for seaming
Scissors
Darning needle
Stitch markers
Blocking mats (optional)
Steamer (optional)

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Stitches & Livestreams

Here is where you’ll find the schedule, stitch pattern, and links to each livestream where we will walk through the pattern! You’ll definitely want to refer back to this section for anything you might miss!🧶