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Are you looking for a beginner friendly baby blanket design? This easy crochet babe blanket for a daughter is just the pattern you need. Even though the yarn used is geared towards a baby girl, you could easily use a different yarn colour for a baby boy.

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Most the Baby Blanket

The goal of designing this blanket was to make a beginner friendly baby blanket that had interesting texture and design! In that location is naught incorrect with a skilful old double crochet afghan just isn't it so fun to brand something simple that looks complex?  It doesn't matter your skill level, you will observe this pattern to be easy, engaging and enjoyable!

The master body of the blanket is made in all half double crochets. By working in the back loop only, you lot get that unique striping effect of the stitches (you can run across the same idea in this blanket cardigan) created past the front end loop and that foreign 3rd loop from the half double crochet. The stripes show on both sides making the baby coating completely reversible.view of baby blanket, crochet hook, and sprinkles yarn

The thick border is simply seven rounds of single crochets. The front of the single crochets does look a bit dissimilar than the back just both sides are as as beautiful.

Close up of baby blanket on chair

The final edging is washed in a crab sew together too known every bit the opposite single crochet.

Hither's a helpful tutorial on how to crochet the crab stitch!

If you are struggling with the crab run up and want to keep this completely beginner friendly, doing an edging of ane single crochet and concatenation in each sew together is a dandy style to simplify the border. It still creates a beautiful finish for the blanket.

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Piece of cake Crochet Baby Blanket for a Girl

Skill Level: Beginner

Materials:

  • US size L (8 mm) crochet claw – Amazon carries my favorite hooks – in fact I wrote an entire review almost why these hooks are amazing.
  • Big Centre Tapestry Needle
  • half dozen skeins # v beefy weight yarn – 3.5 oz / 114 yds
      • Pattern uses Infant Bee Lots of Dots Yarn from Hobby Anteroom

    Hobby Lobby Baby Bee Lots of Dots Yarn in Birthday Sprinkles

Abbreviations:

ch(s): chain(s)
hdc(s): half double crochet(s)
fhdc: foundation one-half double crochet
BLO: dorsum loop only
sc: single crochet
sl st: slip stitch
sp: infinite
st: run up

Guess:

iv″ ten 4″ =x hdc x vii rows

Finished Size:

approx. 32″ ten 41″

baby girl afghan on floor

Notes:

When working the sides of the border on round 1 (R1), you volition be placing three single crochets for every two rows of hdcs.

For the last round (R7) , equally an alternative the crab sew edging, you can (sc, ch 1) in each st around joining with a sl st to the beginning sc.

Blueprint Instructions:

Row 1: Foundation hdc 73 or Ch 75 and hdc in the 2d ch from hook and each ch beyond, plow.

Row 2: ch one, hdc in the BLO of each st, plough

Echo Row 2 for a total of 66 rows

Border:

R1: From the concluding row of the coating, ch 1, plow blanket to the side.Adding border to baby blanket

    • Side 1: Sc at the finish of each row and in big infinite between every ii rows, ch one before working the bottom edge.

close up of sc edge on baby blanket
When you lot sc in the large space between the two rows, be sure to work effectually the strand of yarn which is a trivial lower than the start strand of yarn.
close up of adding border to hdc baby blanket

  • Bottom border: Sc in each st across the bottom, ch ane
  • Side 2: Sc at the end of each row and in large space betwixt every 2 rows, ch i
  • Acme side: Sc in each st, bring together with sl st to first sc of side 1 (sl st will act as a ch-1 sp)

R2-5: ch i, sc in each st around putting a (sc, ch1, sc) in each ch-1sp at the corners, join with sl st to outset sc of side ane(sl st will deed every bit a ch-one sp)

R6: ch i, sc in each st around putting 3 scs in each ch-1 at the corners, join with sl st to first sc of side ane.

R7: ch 1, crab stitch (reverse unmarried crochet) around the unabridged edge. (How to Crochet the Crab Stitch) Join with sl st. Weave in ends.

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