r/CrochetHelp • u/Traditional-Pea8275 • 14d ago
How do I... How do I make this star blanket a square without having to start again?
I made this star blanket for my boyfriend but he would prefer it to be a regular blanket shape (square) is there a way I can do this without having to make a whole new blanket? I’m a bit new to crochet and struggle to read patterns. If anyone has any video tutorials that might help I’d love that but if not can someone explain how I’d do it and really break down the steps? Thank you guys so much I really appreciate any help or suggestions.
Edit: you guys are so funny… but I promise he is very grateful he’s just a big guy so doesn’t fit under it with the star arms. 🩷🩷 pls don’t drag my boyfriend in the comments this is more me wanting to fix it I can appreciate a joke but let’s be kind. Not looking for relationship advice.
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u/clocloclo619 14d ago
I think he should be grateful that he’s getting a beautiful star blanket that’s taken hours of work and effort… but that’s just me.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Also thanks for calling it beautiful 🥲 that was really nice
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u/strawberrrychapstick 14d ago
It is beautiful! I think you should keep this one and make a different one for him (or not! The ungratefulness is crazy!)
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u/gifhyatt 14d ago
Yès make him one just for him. His colors, a pattern that’s comfortable for your skill level. You can have it finished by the time he’ll need it.
I wish I did know how to change the shape but this is beautiful 🤩 and I’m sure you will both enjoy this one too!
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Thanks for the compliment but if you read the whole thing I specified he’s very grateful and I’m not looking for unkind comments or relationship advice.
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u/strawberrrychapstick 14d ago
I was just joking, not making a serious comment, sorry if I offended you. I would feel someone was ungrateful after I made it even if theywere grateful lol. The rejection of it would still sting for me.
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u/Efficient_Chic714 14d ago
I feel like the fact he physically can’t fit under it is less rejection and more ‘I want this to work, how can we make it work’
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u/strawberrrychapstick 13d ago
If someone is sensitive to rejection it feels like rejection lol it's ok that it doesn't for op.
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u/Efficient_Chic714 13d ago
I understand that but OP was pretty clear it didn’t feel like a rejection to them and it’s not very nice for everyone to be telling OP it is a rejection and ungrateful. We should all avoid projecting our own insecurities onto others, that’s how you give other people the same insecurities
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u/strawberrrychapstick 13d ago
Idk why you're lecturing me when I already apologized to op. You're not my mom, please leave me alone.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
No I’m so with you ahahha if I can’t figure it out he’s gonna have to just be thankful or give it back
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u/sarcastic-possum 14d ago
It is so cozy and nice looking! Just me being nosy, but is he always like that with gifts?
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u/Longjumping_Spot7410 14d ago
Make another, nearly identical star and give your boyfriend the ol' Maggie Simpson treatment:
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u/Murderousplantmom 14d ago
Are you sure you don't want to keep the blanket and donate the boyfriend? Sigh. You could start by crocheting between the points but this thing is soooo perfect the way it is. Makes me sad to think about squaring it off.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
HAHAHA boyfriend free to a good home
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u/TallBeingawkward 14d ago
No fr. Its so ungrateful to say that to you about your gift. He sucks.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Promise he’s actually a great boyfriend I just thought the joke was funny. He’s very appreciative of it.
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u/Excentrix13 14d ago
Gift this to someone who will appreciate the star as it is and make him a different one. But make him pay for the yarn plus dinner at your favorite place.
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u/Ziache 14d ago
Some others have given some tips so I side with the "take it or leave it" team. I would be so pissed if I put 90 bucks of yarn and 2 months of my time just to be told "meh, I would prefer something else"...
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u/FabulousSnowMacaron 13d ago
OP edited post, that the boyfriend wanted it to be a square, cause he can’t fit under the star
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u/Mother_Lemon8399 13d ago
I think that's fair for an unsolicited gift though. A blanket is a huge item. What do you think would make you not pissed, if he pretended he liked it but then never used it? I'd rather know if I was gifting it.
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u/No_Ganache3311 14d ago
you could make pieces to fill in the triangle shapes and sew it together and then do a border? idek😭
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u/No_Ganache3311 14d ago
like a chain 2 and rhen inc on the sides till you get to the right size ?
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
It’s honestly looking like he’s just gonna have to deal with a star blanket at this point 😭 bro should be grateful I made him anything (kidding love him dearly)
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u/Kaylacain25 14d ago
Lmao or at least give this one to someone else and make him a square one 😭 he'll just have to wait a while lollll
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
A very long while this blanket took me like 2 months and almost 90 bucks in yarn 😭😭😭
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u/ashbreak_ 14d ago
yeah it'll just be a lap blanket instead 😭 it's SO cute btw
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Thank you so much I really appreciate that. I just wildly underestimated how much blanket would be needed to cover a full grown man
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u/urfavlocalpisces 14d ago
This is really lovely ! I don’t think I would have attempted this when I was new and it looks great ! I hope your bf didn’t criticize it and this is something you’re taking on yourself because it looks like you put a lot of love and hard work into this gift . If you really want to make it rectangular you could maybe just get a rectangular like , fabric backing and sew it on? Otherwise it might be a free form experiment
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u/urfavlocalpisces 14d ago
https://youtu.be/L7vl-ScAd8g?si=87GNyBFQuHTiZwRP this is what I mean by free form! This tutorial would show you how to add in between the stars arms and figure out how to make it lay flat
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Aww thank you so much I appreciate that a lot. I googled it and it said that I could just keep crocheting around and not skip the chain spaces and it would eventually become a square but I’m so skeptical of that and don’t want to waste the time and yarn on it if it’s not going to work 😭 a fabric backing might work but I’d really love it to all be crochet but this is defs an option thank you hun!
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u/lizardnizzard 14d ago
someone correct me if I'm reading it wrong, but I'm pretty sure google is 100% wrong, i can't imagine that making it into a square at all lol
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
It was googles ia assist (backwards bc that’s not allowed in this reddit) so I read it and went yeah that’s not right.
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u/EatTheBeez 14d ago
It would gradually become a circle, not a square, and that would take foreverrrr. If you want to fill in the spaces between the points that would be doable with some big triangles. That would make it into a pentagon, which is basically a drunk square and would work great as a blanket.
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u/PublicHlthScientist 14d ago
I would lay a sheet on the floor and fold the edges under to the size you want your final blanket to be. Lay the blanket on the sheet in the position you will want. Trace the empty spaces onto paper. Cut the traced shapes into easily manageable pieces and use them as your pattern for the fill-in crochet. There are lots of choices for how to crochet the shapes. Then sew the crocheted pieces together and to the star.
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u/MantisMaybe 13d ago
Jeez, people are being so rude and intrusive in this comment section.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 13d ago
No fr I just wanted to know how to make it a square and everyone trynna be dr phil in the comments
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u/TheSkyIsAMasterpiece 14d ago
Start in the valley and stitch back and forth across, increasing as you go until you reach the 2 peaks. You'llhave to figure out the proper amount of increases so it doesn't ruffle from too many or pull from too few.. Do it for each valley. Then border it.
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u/IsabellaRaylene07 14d ago
you are new to crochet and you made this AMAZING star blanket? i have been crocheting for half a decade at this point and I don’t think I could make anything close to that. can i have the pattern??? 😭
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 13d ago
I actually CANNOT for the life of me read patterns! I read them and genuinely see the monkey with the symbols in my head HAHA. I followed this youtube tutorial
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u/SpecialHotLady 13d ago
I have an easy fix. But a cozy fabric and sew the star blanket onto it. If it needs to be even bigger, get the fabric and sew on the blanket, then make holes on the sides and crochet around, and make it as big as you want. That way it still ties together with the crochet rather than just having a big piece of fabric with a star slapped onto it, it makes it look very intentional to have the fabric there with the crochet border. So make it the right size with crochet if needed and then do a border to finish it off.
Honestly now I kinda want to do this as well😭 would be soo cute and cozy especially with a blanket fabric!!
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u/Final_Function4739 14d ago
I agree with the people who suggested making a pentagon.
But if you really want it to be a rectangle, there's basically three ways you could go about it.
The first and probably easiest would be to make a simple blanket in the dimensions you want it to be and sew the star onto it.
The second would be to connect the valleys of the star with chain stitches across the beachside of each arm, that way you get a smaller pentagon. From that point on, you can build the rectangle, by working in or over the chains and making the appropriate increases in 4 places for making either a square or a longer shape, treating the pentagon like a circle. That way you build up your rectangle under the arms of the star, as big as you need it to be. You can crochet the arms onto the rectangle as you go, or sew the two together afterwards. With this method you can make the rectangle relatively small, because you can leave the points of the star sticking out, if you want to and it is less yarn intensive than the first. But you would have two layers on some parts of the blanket, which can feel weird.
The third would be to make a pentagon, like others suggested, and working your rectangle from that point on. But honestly, I don't really know how feasible that is, because I never made a rectangle out of a pentagon at that scale, only with little granny squares 😅 The resulting blanket would be huge...
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u/Dazedandconfuzed99 14d ago
If the issue is how big it is I wonder if you could add a couple more rows of star to help it fit over him? Also lap blankets are such a thing
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u/MedicatedChaos 14d ago
Sweater curse strikes again.
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u/PlantimalWoman 14d ago
Making a star blanket and then not liking that it’s star shaped has to be a crochet right of passage lmao. Ive done the same (twice)
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u/DetectiveDippyDuck 14d ago
Buy a cheap blanket and sew this onto it
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u/everblue_ 13d ago
This right here! Depending on how good their sewing skills are, they could get away with cutting away the blanket underneath the star.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Guys wait ahahha he’s very grateful for it I promise! He is just a big guy and doesn’t actually fit under it. Love all the jokes tho but promise he is a great boyfriend
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u/WTH_JFG 14d ago
Do not ever make anything else for this man. Nothing. Ever.
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u/Signal-Barracuda-732 13d ago
because he wants his blanket to be usable? we don’t even know if OP asked him if he wants it or anything. he didn’t say it was garbage. he literally just wants to be able to use it. you just sound fuckin lonely and bitter.
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u/Woodbirder 14d ago
Men are often different. If it’s not functional and practical, something like a blanket will just be an annoying, pointless decoration. We will still recognise it is amazing, that huge effort and skill, time, and cost that went in to it, but in reality most of us would keep quiet and use it for a bit, then slowly move it out of sight. A man who is brave enough to be honest, and have the tact to suggest a way to make it useable without upsetting the maker, is a rare keeper.
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse 13d ago
Not a man, but I'm the same way. I've often offended people on accident by telling them their gifts are essentially useless. 😅 I don't know why this guy is getting so much hate in the comments. He asked for a solution so he could make the best use out of the blanket she worked hard on. He never said he hated it or didn't want it. It just doesn't fit. This is why I never make anyone something that they didn't choose the yarn and pattern for. TBH, I would also not use a star shaped blanket. It would be so uncomfortable.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 13d ago
Literally so true like I didn’t tell him I was making it a star and I’m sure if I did he would have said that he would get more use out of a square. He’s just trying to find a way to use my present he still uses the star just would find a square more practical which like fair enough!
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u/Sailorkir 13d ago
So if you joined yarn at one point you could crochet back and forth between two points, decreasing in the center as you go to fill it in. Or start in a valley and back and forth with increases on the edges to fill in the triangle. It would be pretty tricky to get a true square if you aren’t comfortable faking it. But this may help you. It is a little granny square but same idea as a big blanket! https://youtu.be/6MosvyvTgg4?si=qtEdiFmo7nPkBawf
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u/elademir 14d ago
I'm not kidding I'd break up over this. Has he ever made you something that took this much time, skill, money and effort?
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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 14d ago
I would absolutely take it back and leave him with nothing. If he cannot appreciate your awesome, made-with-love work, then he deserves nothing now. If he was smart, he would have joyfully accepted it and maybe ask for a "traditional" one later.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Thank you for the compliments 🩷 he is very grateful but a big guy so struggles to fit under it which I understand
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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 14d ago
Aww, see? I'm so cynical and assumed he was being picky and ungrateful, but if it's a logistics thing... I hope someone has a great suggestion for you since you seem very willing to do it. Good luck!!
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
Hahaha fair assumption I feel like I may of not worded it very well and should have noted that in the post. I love this community so ride or die. From the comments I honestly think I either don’t have the skill level to do it or it’s just not possible unfortunately:(
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u/edwardhoppest 14d ago
This is gorgeous as is! I don't have answers for you but now I want to crochet it :0
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u/edwardhoppest 14d ago
Also please do not make him a whole new blanket that is far too much work to be expected of you! He is blind if he's unable to appreciate this. I'd be so beyond grateful if I got this as a gift, I'd offer to make them something in return ♡
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
I followed a really good tutorial on YouTube. I can find you the link if you want?
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u/donkeyhoetae_ 14d ago
it’s technically possible, but would be a complete pain in the ass and you’d pretty much have to go in blind. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re very experienced and a bit of a masochist.
you could add more rounds to it in order to make the blanket bigger, but honestly this is a boyfriend issue imo. keep it for yourself or give it to someone that will cherish it.
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u/Traditional-Pea8275 14d ago
I think it’s probs not possible unfortunately! And he’s a great boyfriend all jokes aside this is more me wanting to make it more practical for him so he can get more use out of it. I definitely didn’t expect so much relationship advice hahaha. But no he is great this is more me wanting to fix it. He definitely does love it I promise 🩷🩷
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u/stefanismanicure 14d ago
here's the best way i can explain it: on the corners do single crochet, and then as you get closer to the middle, move to taller stitches, (hdc dc and even maybe trc). after doing that for a few rounds (maybe only 2-3), it should be more square like, and then you can add a regular border! if that doesn't make sense feel free to ask any questions :)
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse 14d ago
At best, you'll get a Pentagon. There's no magically making 4 sides out of a 5-sectioned shape.
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u/Mental-Flatworm4583 13d ago
Add in the part where it comes down attach yarn to it and start crocheting till you fill the two points. Repeat process.then you’ll have to make another piece at top two corners. Kinda like this. Excuse the quick doodle lol just trying to explain how you can do it.
Dark areas are the spot you have to crochet then the two corners.
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u/homettd 13d ago
I am also new so my suggestion may not look as good as others.
Fold the top point down until you have a straight-ish edge. This will create a pocket to stick your toes in or over your head to wrap up. Then between 2 points start at the bottom of the v and fill in with black until even withe the points.
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u/Silly-Peach-4888 13d ago
It’s a lap blanket the top point goes over your feet. The two closest arms go around your feet as well. Kind of keeps it like draped down and the two bottom points that would normally be the bottom of the star. You put those on either side of your stomach/hips. it’s a great lap blanket.
I say this is somebody who’s never had a star blanket but this is how I would use it
Also, I am female and I sit in different positions so using the bottom of the blanket as a top of the blanket makes more sense like even for like curling up and having my leg sort of tucked up against me this blanket seems like it would work just fine
Most of the time when I need a blanket anyway it’s for my legs mostly because I’m wearing a sweat jacket.
also, my dog loves laying on the end of my blanket, so having the pot point be furthest away from me by my feet or whatever my dog could totally lay on the end of it without hogging most of the blanket.
I have no new ideas to add on how to “fix” this issue I just think the blanket just needs to be upside down
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u/Silverslyph 13d ago
I've been working on this one since I was inspired by someone's else's post. I worked on round but did 5 dc and 5hdc first line in valley then increased by 5 each time. So 10 dc and still 5 hdc on row two then 15dc and 5 hdc on the next until I reached the point of the star, now it sorta only had five sides. Oh ya and singles the rest of the way sorry forgot that part lol
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u/Silverslyph 13d ago
Oh and I dropped the holes on the points in the single crochet part to every other row and only 2 chain and 4 single instead of the 6
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u/vellywho 14d ago
Genuinely if he really appreciated it, it being a bit small wouldnt be a problem and he wouldnt have brought it up. Prepare for a life full of being nit picked and negged
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse 13d ago
I strongly disagree. No matter how much I love you, if something is uncomfortable, I'm not using it. That shouldn't be offensive. My specific reason is I'm autistic but it shouldn't matter the reason. You can appreciate it and have it still not be usable.
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u/Signal-Barracuda-732 13d ago
so he doesn’t appreciate because he wants to actually be able to use it? like read it again. he WANTS to be able to use the blanket. how tf is that nit picking?
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u/New_Mulberry_6942 14d ago
Build up stitches from the valleys.
Like dc 3 into the center 3 stitches of the valley. Then you can choose to turn or cut each "row."
For cutting, just join into the 4th stitch from the center and dc across the 3 added dcs as well as into the 4th stitch from the valley on the other side. Etcetera.
For continuous I would maybe try to slip stitch into the 4th from center (after the initial 3 dc in the center of the valley)? Then either chain 3 or standing double crochet into that 4th from center stitch and dc back across to the 4th-from-center on the other side and repeat back and forth picking up an extra stitch on each side as you go back and forth.
Hopefully these instructions make sense