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I was given a crochet pattern that is 376 chains and then you dbl crochet. 8 then chain 8 and repeat these til the end.  I made this probably 30 years ago and l can't remember how to draw the 8 chains up and add the border.  What is this pattern called or any help is appreciated.  Beautiful blanket but a handful to hold on to.

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Welcome to the 'ville!  This sounds like a "Jacob's Ladder" pattern.  The action that you do to draw up the chains to make the decorative raised pattern (using a crochert hook, or your finger) is the same way you fix a dropped stitch in knitting (often using a crochet hook)--and before you do that, the open area caused by the dropped stitch is called a 'ladder'.

Here is a search on Ravelry for free blanket patterns like this, both from the center out and worked in rows as you described; I think the last 2 (by Coats & Clark, and Monica Ballinger) used the name, but is not that technique.

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Sorry, came back and realized my link wasn't there, here are the patterns, trying again -- 

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#craft=crochet&availability=free&pc=blanket&query=Jacob's ladder&sort=best&view=captioned_thumbs&page=1

The one from Bev's Country cottage is cool, The only difference is the 'ladders' are laced up in opposite directions, alternating top to bottom, bottom to top.

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I didn't look at the video, but the photo looks like there is a row of DC and a row of SC.  So it makes sense you'd need a longer chain since it's spanning a little more distance in this case.  And I think the SCs are a good idea, it would keep the fabric tighter--the loops come out of the DCs, and the SCs 'close' the DCs together behind the gappy loop.

 

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