Crochet baby blanket patterns

Norwegian Forest Blanket Pattern

03/03/2016 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet baby blanket patterns 26 Comments

I named this blanket “Norwegian forest” because it reminds me of the pictures of beautiful and powerful Norwegian landscapes my friend sent me when she left to live in Norway. I was fascinated with that endless, icy and serene beauty… minimalistic but powerful!

The blanket measures approximately 86 x 86 cm (34″ x 34″) and it is consisted of 16 granny squares, (20 x 20 cm) joined with single crochet.

Vintage granny square crochet blanket pattern

For this blanket I chose a yarn I have never worked with before. It’s “Una” from St. George, 115m/50g, 55% acrylic, 40% cotton and 5% metalized polyester. The yarn is breath taking, streaked with silver threads, and I’m very sorry I didn’t manage to show all that beauty in the pictures. The reason why these pictures don’t reflect true beauty of this yarn is because I use only natural light for shooting, and these winter days are so dark and gloomy… Anyway, it was a real pleasure to work with this soft, amazing yarn.

I used 4 mm crochet hook (USA – size G-6, UK – size 8). The pattern is written using US crochet terms.

Popcorn granny square crochet blanket pattern

Like all my patterns, this one is also very detailed. There are step-by-step instruction on how to make the square, as well as how to make the border, with more than 120 step-by-step photographs. I also made crochet charts for square and border, and there are written patterns for square and border, too. I hope that this pattern will be very easy to follow, because I wrote it having in mind that not so long ago I was an inexperienced crocheter (read: beginner) with absolutely no clue about crochet! I remember so well how I appreciated any detailed step-by-step tutorial which I was able to follow with my poor knowledge of crochet!

The pattern has 22 pages! Can you believe it?

The Norwegian Forest Blanket Pattern is now available in Dada’s place shop, (payment options: Credit cards & PayPal).

You can also buy it in my Ravelry shop, and in my Etsy shop. (payment option: PayPal)

Guess How Much I Love You Baby Blanket Pattern

20/01/2016 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet baby blanket patterns 20 Comments

Guess how much I love you crochet baby blanket pattern

I’m so happy that my first pattern for 2016. has the word “Love” in its title! So, it seems to me that I started this year in the right direction. I’ve been thinking to add at least one new pattern each month in my shop. That would be my goal for 2016.

Flowery granny square baby blanket pattern

I wrote a post about Guess How Much I Love You blanket earlier, but I will give you basic information again. So, here we go, this is a relatively small blanket. It measures approximately 65 x 70 cm (25,6″ x 27,5″), but you can make it bigger, simply by adding more rows of squares. I used my favorite yarn, “Tango”, 100% cotton yarn, 125m/50g, from St. George and 3.5 mm crochet hook. The border is as you can see, very simple. I joined the squares with simple crochet, which is so easy to do.

If you prefer bright colors, maybe you can use this color combination, which I like a lot! Although I didn’t make the whole blanket with these colors, I bet that it would look great and that babies would like it. Babies like bright colors. It seems that bright colors stimulate baby’s eyes. So, if you’d like a baby Einstein, go for bright colors!

Guess How Much I Love you crochet blanket tutorial

The pattern is written in English, using standard American crochet terms.

This 14 page pattern includes:

* Step by step instruction on how to make square

* Step by step instruction on how to join squares and make the border

* Written pattern for square

* More than 60 step-by-step photographs

* 2 Crochet charts and several diagrams

Beautiful granny square baby blanekt pattern

Hope you will like the pattern and find it easy to follow. The “Guess How Much I Love You” Baby Blanket Pattern and step-by-step tutorial is now available in Dada’s place shop. (payment options: Credit cards & PayPal)

You can also buy it in my Ravelry shop, and in my Etsy shop. (payment option: PayPal)

My 2015 in pictures

08/01/2016 by Dada Filed Under: Other crochet projects 16 Comments

2015 was a good year. It left me with so much good memories. Not everything was great, though. There were some challenging moments. But, I’m very grateful. For good moments, and for not so good moments. It’s easy to consider having a good life when only good things happen. But, the other things, those undesirable things which happen once in a while, are actually our best teachers. They force us forward. They show us how strong we are. Every time we ask ourselves this question: “Oh my God why is this happening to me?!” there is a lesson needed to be learned. And, I’ve learned a few lessons last year. Thank you 2015!