South Shore Baby Blanket: Free Crochet Pattern

This beachy baby blanket features one of the most popular crochet stitch tutorials on my site, the Tulip Stitch. Doesn’t the texture remind you of a corner-to-corner blanket??

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I used Main Street Yarn’s Shiny and Soft. This yarn is available on LoveCrochet.com and is indeed soft and shiny haha. It is one of the softest acrylic yarns I’ve felt and has a pretty sheen like Red Heart Soft or Caron Simply Soft. It also comes in a TON of colors and is really affordable!

Update 3/2020: The yarn I originally used for this blanket is no longer available. I suggest using either Caron Simply Soft or Knit Picks Brava Worsted as substitutes for their giant color selection. But really any worsted weight will do. 

This crochet baby blanket so therapeutic for me. Between the calming colors, the 1-row stitch repeat and the fact the after the first row, all the stitches are worked into a chain space it became a sort of mindless project that I could just pick up and work on whenever.

It also made a perfect TV project! I’ve noticed that since I started crocheting every night, I literally can’t just sit and do nothing. I have to move my hands. Can you relate?

Looking for another easy baby blanket? Try this one!

I can’t wait to see all the pretty colors you guys choose for your blankets!

 

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Materials

-4 Colors of Main Street Yarn Soft and Shiny (365yds/7.1 oz per skein) or similar #4/worsted weight yarn

-I used: Baby Blue, Powder Blue, Light Grey and Bright Teal

-5mm/H crochet hook (I love my Clover Amour one!)

-Needle to weave in ends. (These work great!)

-Scissors

Gauge and Sizing

-Gauge: 4.5 shells x 9 rows = 4 inches

-Pattern for gauge: chain any multiple of 4 and follow pattern instructions.

-1 shell = (2 dc, ch 2, sc) worked in ch-2 space.

-Finished Blanket Measure: Approx- 31 in wide x 38 in tall

Abbreviations

-I use US Terminology

-Ch(s): chain(s)

-Dc: double crochet

-Sc: single crochet

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Notes

-To make this blanket wider chain any multiple of 4

-To make the blanket longer with more than 4 colors, repeat rows 18-40, changing colors as indicated.

-Each row of this blanket as written should have 35 shell groups.

–Find the Tulip Stitch tutorial here.

-If you would like to substitute a different yarn, I suggest Caron Simply Soft, Red Heart Soft or Lion Brand Heartland or Knit Picks Brava Worsted

-The color sequence I used was as follows:

-CA: Baby Blue

-CB: Powder Blue

-CC: Light Grey

-CD: Bright Teal

Easy crochet baby blanket Pattern

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Row 1: With CA, Ch 140. Dc in 3^rd ch from hook, ch 2, sc in next ch, * skip 2 chs. 2 dc in next ch, ch 2, sc in next ch. Repeat from * across. Turn. (35 shell groups per row here and throughout)

Row 2-17: Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 18: Change to CB. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 19: Change to CA. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 20-24: Repeat rows 18-19, ending on a Row 18.

Row 25-40: Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 41: Change to CC. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 42: Change to CB. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 43-47: Repeat rows 41-42, ending on a Row 41.

Row 48-63: Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 64: Change to CD. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 65: Change to CC. Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn.

Row 66-70: Repeat rows 64-65, ending on a Row 64.

Row 71-86: Ch 2, skip 1^st st. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. * skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 space. Repeat from * across. Turn. On last row finish off and weave in all ends.

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