How to Crochet C2C Buffalo Plaid Check

Some patterns just never go out of style – florals, nautical stripes and plaids, to name a few. Here’s how to crochet C2C Buffalo Plaid.

Plaids always seem to be so popular in the fall and winter. The Buffalo Plaid pattern is no exception. Buffalo Plaid is defined as blocks of 2 colours that intersect in a check pattern. Typically the two colours are red and black. The Buffalo Plaid pattern has been around for a very long time – it reaches as far back as the 1850s with blankets and shirts.

The Buffalo Plaid Check look can be achieved using the C2C crochet method – simply add a third colour where the two intersect. So if doing a red and black buffalo plaid, you would add in a burgundy colour to represent the areas that it intersects.

Here is a video tutorial on how to do this C2C technique.

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An Analysis of C2C Buffalo Plaid Check

Upon analyzing the pattern of buffalo plaid, you will notice that it isn’t that complicated. One row alternates between the 2 main colours (red and black) while the alternating row is the intersecting row – so a complete row of burgundy. Knowing these patterns makes it easier.

Here it is explained in the following table:

Now you can achieve this look using any 3 colours, but if you are like me, you want a formula. So here are a couple of suggested formulas to get you started.

Option 1

Colour A + Neutral + Intersecting Colour

Colour A – your main colour; can be any colour.
Neutral – black, white or tan.
Intersecting colour – if you are using black as your neutral colour, then it would be a darker version of Colour A; if you are using white or tan, it would be a lighter version of Colour A.

Your C2C buffalo plaid check chart would look like this:

Option 2

You could also use 3 of the same colour, as shown in this formula:

Colour A + Colour A1 + Colour A2

Colour A is your main colour
Colour A1 is a lighter version of Colour A
Colour A2 is a darker version of Colour A

So basically, you have 3 shades of the same colour. The medium shade (Colour A) represents your intersecting colour while the A1 and A2 represent the other 2 colours. Your C2C chart would look like this:

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With this application, you can use the buffalo plaid pattern on anything that you would use the C2C technique to make. This would look great in blankets, accessories, and placemats, just to name a few. In subsequent posts, I will post a couple of projects using this technique.