Crochet Baby Blanket

This is an easy baby blanket inspired by Lisa Charbonneau (click here for link).

For this blanket, I used Panda Magnum Soft 8 ply acrylic yarn (100g, 189m), in colours: pink, butter, and white. This yarn was good to work with and produced a nice, soft blanket.  

Using a 4mm hook, and 4 balls each of both pink and butter and 1 ball of white, the blanket had a finished size of 104 cm square, with some yarn left over.

The blanket consists of 36 squares in a 6 x 6 arrangement. It has 9 pink solid squares, 9 butter solid squares, 9 granny squares with a pink centre, and 9 granny squares with a butter centre. These were then arranged in alternating rows of pink and butter (ie row of pink solid and pink centre squares alternating, followed by a row of butter solid and butter centre squares alternating).

The granny squares consisted of 7 rows of alternating pink and butter yarn. To make these I started with 5 chain to form a circle, and then:

Row 1: 4 lots of 3 dc with 3 chain between;

Row 2 to Row 7: groups of 3 dc in the chain spaces, with 3 dc 3 chain 3 dc in the corners, and one chain between the groups of 3 dc elsewhere.

For the solid colour squares, I started with 29 chain, and then crocheted 14 rows of double crochet, turning at each end.

To stitch the squares together, I used single crochet in white yarn, with the wrong side of squares facing together. The border consists of two rows of single crochet, also in the white yarn.