I made this fun blan­ket for a dear friend who’s hav­ing a baby. I thought it could serve as a warm blan­ket for the stroller and car­rides, and maybe also as a floor blan­ket to roll around on. It also works as a cozy lap blan­ket for mom! :D

With the bulky yarn and giant hook, it’s a pret­ty quick project. The fin­ished size is about 26“x30”.

What I used:
Bernat Blan­ket, 1 ball of “sand” and 1 ball of “taupe” (I had quite a lot of taupe left, prob­a­bly enough to make 2 pairs of the slip­pers in this post)
Light yel­low yarn for but­ter pat (I hap­pen to have a che­nille tex­ture yarn that I got from the dol­lar store once, but any yel­low yarn would do)
15 mm hook (for toast)
Appro­pri­ate size hook for but­ter pat (depend­ing on the yarn you’re using)
6 mm hook (for facial details)
Tapes­try needle

What I did:

With “sand” colour yarn, ch 31.

Row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in every ch across, turn (30 sc).

Row 2: ch 1 (does not count as sc), sc in each sc across, turn.

Repeat row 2 until piece is about 22″ from beginning.

Bread top shaping:

Row 1: ch 1, 2 sc tog, sc in each sc across until 2 sc left in row, 2 sc tog, turn.

Row 2: repeat row 1 of bread top shaping.

Row 3: ch 1, 2 sc tog, sc in next 9 sc, 2 sc tog, turn.

Row 4: ch 1, 2 sc tog twice, sc in each sc until 4 sc left in row, 2 sc tog twice, turn.

Row 5: ch 1, skip first sc, sc in next 4 sc, 2 sc tog, turn.

Row 6: ch 1, skip first sc, 3 sc tog, fas­ten off, weave in ends.

Attach yarn to mid­dle of bread top shap­ing at row 3, repeat rows 3–6 for the oth­er side of bread top.

Crust:

Attached “taupe” colour yarn to any stitch at the bot­tom edge of toast, ch 1 (does not count as sc), sc around toast even­ly (1 sc in each sc at bot­tom edge and bread top, 1 sc in each row-end on the sides, mak­ing 2 sc in each cor­ner, and mak­ing 3 sc tog in the mid­dle of bread top where it dips in), sl st in first sc to fin­ish round.

Cro­chet 2 more times around toast, fas­ten off, weave in ends.

Eyes (make 2, or more, to make a mul­ti-eyed mon­ster toast):

With “taupe”, 10 hdc in mag­ic ring, sl st in first hdc to com­plete round, fas­ten off, leave a long tail for sewing.

Smile:

With “taupe” and 6 mm hook, ch 9, fas­ten off, leave a long tail for sewing.

But­ter pat:

Cro­chet a rec­tan­gle about 3“x4”. Num­ber of stitch­es and rows will depend on the yarn you use. When fas­ten­ing off, leave a long tail for sewing.

Assem­bly:

Sew eyes, smile and but­ter pat onto toast with tapes­try nee­dle. When sewing on but­ter pat, I tucked in bits of the bot­tom edge so it looks like it’s melting.

And here’s Mr. Toast relax­ing before going to his new home :)

Stay toasty, every­one! :D