Pattern for Crochet Baby Blanket

Pattern for Crochet Baby Blanket - Snuggle Your Baby Up In This Beautiful Hand Crochet Warm Baby Blanket.

Materials used for the crochet baby blanket:

I have used a soft baby blue and a soft pastel multicolor baby wool for this baby blanket.

• 350 gr soft blue (or any color of your choice)
• 350 gr soft pastel multicolor  (or any other color of your choice) 

The crochet baby blanket is square with the finished width and length each 90 cm (35 ½ inch). For this result a crochet hook no. 4 was used.

Width and length can be adjusted to your choice however you would need to adjust the materials accordingly.

A small sample will give you a good indication of the end result. Use approx. 10 chain stitches (1/10 of the number of stitches used for the pattern). Crochet hook as indicated. Complete approx. 2 full pattern motives.

Photo and pattern copyright 2007 by Belinda MacKenzie / http://www.topcrocheting.com

This photo shows the pattern of the crochet baby blanket detailed below.

Crochet Baby Blanket Pattern

Abbreviations : ch = chain, sc = single crochet, dc = double crochet, trc = triple crochet, hdc = half-double crochet.

Starting Chain: In multicolor pastel baby wool – 174 chain (ch) stitches. If changing the number of chain stitches ensure that you are able to divide them by 4 + 2 ch extra.

Row 1: Single crochet (sc) in 2^nd chain (ch) and sc in each ch across (172 sc)

Row 2: Multicolor – 3 ch (as first dc), then 1 dc in each sc.

Rows 3, 4, 5 and 6: soft blue – start each row with 1 ch and continue each row with sc in each stitch.

Row 7: Multicolor – turn 1 ch, then 1 sc in the 1^st and 2^nd sc, 1 deep stitched trc (= 1 trc around dc of the dc in multicolor row below) *3 sc in each of the following 3 sc, 1 deep stitched trc* repeat pattern, finish row with 1 sc in the last 2 sc.

Row 8: as row 2.

Row 9, 10, 11, 12: as row 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Row 13: Multicolor – turn 1 ch, 1 deep stitched trc in the 1^st dc below, * 1 sc in each of the following 3 sc, 1 deep stitched trc* repeat pattern.

Row 14: as row 2.

Repeat the pattern until the required length. Ending the last two rows as row 2 with the last row in sc.

Finish the baby blanket with crocheting 2 rows in sc on both sides in multicolor.

Border :

Start with 2 sc *1 hdc, 2 dc and 1 hdc in the next same stitch, 4 sc* repeat pattern until finished.

By Belinda MacKenzie the author of the Crocheting Made Easy.