Crochet baby blanket patterns

Menya Blanket Pattern

12/02/2020 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet blankets 6 Comments

This is Menya blanket. I designed it for Crochet Now magazine. It was featured in issue 46. “The Menya blanket is a beautiful combination of cool style with interesting stitches! This blanket plays with patterns and texture to create a show-stopping piece made in luxuriously silky-soft yarn.” to quote the magazine. I must only agree with all that!

Despite the fact that last summer, when I was working on the blanket, was so, so hot, plus I had a tight deadline (so I was forced to crochet almost all day long), I really and utterly enjoyed the process. The main reason is the yarn I used – Hooked Eucalyps. Gorgeous, silky and soft like a cloud. It’s 100% eucalyptus! I know! It’s unbelievable! I’d never heard before that yarn can be made from eucalyptus. And to my surprise, it looks and feels like it’s made of silk. Working with that yarn was an incredible experience. I loved it, and I highly recommend it to everyone. Try it. It’s awesome!

It’s aran weight yarn, 165m per 100g skein. I used 21 skeins in Pastello 06.

Crochet pattern - Menya blanket by dadas place

The blanket is quite big; it’s a 143 cm square. It consists of 25 squares. Each square is approximately 25 X 25 cm.

I used 4.5 mm crochet hook.

The blanket is pretty easy to make. To design it I used only several stitches: magic ring, chain stitch, slip stitch, double crochet and popcorn stitch. That’s all! You don’t have to use plenty of “fancy” stitches to achieve something beautiful and interesting. I strongly believe that “les is more”. In design and in life. I’m one of those people who have a constant need to get rid of things…

Let’s get back to the subject. I have one more thing to tell you. The peachy pink version of Menya blanket just got a brother. Two days ago I finished my second, gray version, which I made for the purpose of the step-by-step tutorial. So now I have 2 Menya blankets! Which is great, because it’s winter and the blankets are so warm and snugly… Can’t wait to finish with this post to wrap myself in the blanket, grab a book and enjoy the evening. Of course a cup of Earl Gray tea with milk and honey is mandatory. And yummy.

The gray version is made of 100% cotton yarn, Cotton Classic by St. George. It is light worsted, DK yarn, 120 m per 50g skein. The blanket turned out a little smaller, 130 x 130 cm, and the square is 23 x 23 cm. It weighs 1342 g, so I spent 27 skeins of 50 g. Since that yarn is very affordable, I didn’t have to spend a fortune on yarn. It cost me only $22.4 or 20.44 Euros.

The pattern is very detailed. I rated it as intermediate level, but I’m sure that it can be easily accomplished by every committed beginner. The pattern includes:

– a step-by-step picture tutorial on how to make the square,

– a step-by-step picture tutorial on how to join the squares,

– a step-by-step picture tutorial on how to make the border,

-a crochet chart for the square,

– a crochet chart for the border,

– written pattern for the square, joining, and the border,

– a stitch guide,

– information on materials used.

All that packed in a 16 page pattern with almost 100 (98 to be exact) step-by-step pictures!

The pattern is written using US crochet terms.

The Menya blanket pattern is now available in Dada’s place shop. Click here to get it.

You can also purchase it in Dada’s Ravelry shop, and Dada’s Etsy shop as well.

I’m looking forward to seeing your versions of Menya blanket, so please share your pictures on Instagram and Facabook, and don’t forget to tag me and to use #menya blanket hash tag. You can also email me the pictures of your finished projects. I’m always thrilled to see your own personal touches to my patterns. And what can be done when two creativities come together.

Weldy Shawl Pattern

14/01/2020 by Dada Filed Under: Scarves and shawls 13 Comments

weldy crochet shawl pattern by dadas place

Before I started working on Weldy shawl, I’d had a picture of a beautiful, simple and elegant shawl in my mind. I must admit that I liked that picture very much. Maybe, I even fell in love with it. Having high expectations might lead to disappointment. Because the end result must be almost perfect. With this shawl, though, I managed to avoid disappointment, because the end result was even better than the picture in my mind. And this rarely happens. My thinking usually goes something like this: “I should have made this part differently, or I should have used a different yarn/color/hook…, or I should have made it bigger/smaller/longer…, or I should have… you know what I mean. There’s always something that I should have made differently. Not this time. This time everything turned out exactly as I wanted. Even better.

Since I finished the shawl, I’ve been using it all the time. I love to have it around. To wrap myself in it, and to look at it. It’s soft and warm. I don’t even feel uncomfortable bragging about it.

I used Alize Angora Gold yarn. It’s beautiful, fluffy and very affordable. It’s quite thin, 100 g/550 m (3.58 Oz/601 yds) 80% Acrylic, 20% Wool. I used 3 skeins of 100g – approximately 280 g or 1540m
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The size: It’s 170 cm (67”) wide and 80 cm (31.5”) long, after blocking. It’s quite big, but you can easily make it smaller if you make fewer repeats.

crochet pattern - weldy shawl by dadas place

The shawl is quite simple to make. I designed it using only several stitches: a magic ring, a chain stitch, a single crochet, a double crochet, a bobble stitch, and a front post treble crochet. That’s all.
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As always, the pattern is very detailed. It includes: row-by-row written pattern, photo tutorial, stitch counts and several crochet charts. All that packed in 14 pages.

Weldy shawl pattern is now available in Dada’s place shop, here. You can purchase it also in Dada’s Ravelry shop and Dada’s Etsy shop as well.
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I’m looking forward to seeing your versions of Weldy shawl, so please share the pictures of your beautiful shawls on Facebook and Instagram and don’t forget to tag me and to use #weldyshawl hash tag.

Click here to get Weldy shawl pattern.

Timi Blanket Pattern

19/12/2019 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet blankets 10 Comments

Mosaic crochet blanket pattern Timi blanket 1

Today I’m very happy to introduce the new blanket in my quite a big blanket collection! I’m not sure if it’s my fifteenth blanket pattern, but I’m 100% sure that I put a lot of my time, hard work, effort, heart and soul into this pattern. It’s my first mosaic crochet pattern which I fell in love with 2-3 months ago when I tried it for the first time. It is a technique which allows you to do colorwork, carrying only one color at a time. You don’t have to switch colors all the time. It’s very convenient. Also it allows you to draw with your crochet hook, which I really like, because prior to being a crochet designer I had worked as an illustrator and graphic a designer. So, as you can guess, I love drawing and painting and playing with colors…

I named the blanket after my Tibetan terrier, Timi. He’s adorable, very loyal and funny. I call him my black and white shadow, because he follows me everywhere I go, all day long. If I’m working, he’s under my desk. If I’m taking a shower, he guards the bathroom door. If I go outside of the room, he immediately comes after me. Only sometimes (when he’s tired or just lazy) he waits several minutes to see if I’m coming back, and if I’m not, he comes to see what I’m doing, and why I’m not coming back. And he does it in such an unobtrusive way. He’s not boring or demanding at all. And he’s also very handsome and cute! So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that I adore him! I also love our morning and afternoon walks. I usually listen to one of my favorite podcasts, while he’s doing his stuff like sniffing, peeing on every other tree, bush or blade of grass, thoroughly marking the territory on our walk. As if he wants to say: I’ve been here.

He likes dog treats very, very, very, very much, so a part of this pattern’s sales will help me to supply him with his favorite biscuits.

And now a word about the blanket. The size: 85 x 115 cm (33” x 45”). It’s easily adjustable. You just need to add or subtract (deduct) as many repeats as needed to suit your desirable size.

I used 100% cotton yarn Tango from St. George 125m/50g, which is between Sport (Baby) and Light worsted (DK) yarn. Since Tango yarn isn’t available online, you can substitute it with Catona yarn from Scheepjeswol, or Catania from Schachenmayr. They’re both 100% cotton yarns, the same weight as Tango, and they come in a variety of colors and shades.

Mosaic crochet blanket pattern by Dadas place

I used two different crochet hook sizes. A 3 mm for stitch pattern and a 3.5 for mosaic panels. It is quite a simple pattern and uses only three basic stitches: simple crochet, double crochet and chain stitch, and a special stitch: mosaic double crochet. That’s all. Mosaic double crochet isn’t complicated at all and I included a very detailed step-by-step picture tutorial on how to make it. So, you don’t have to worry if you’ve never tried mosaic crochet before.

Mosaic crochet blanket pattern by Dadas place 2

As always, the pattern is very detailed. There is a written pattern, a row-by-row mosaic panel picture tutorial, a step-by-step guide on how to make mosaic double crochet, a step-by-step photo tutorial on how to make the tassels, 5 crochet and mosaic charts, and a very detailed explanation on how to read a mosaic chart. All that packed in 12 page pattern.

Timi blanket Crochet mosaic blanket pattern

The blanket is very graphic and modern, which I really like, and it can be made in various colors. While choosing the yarn, make sure that you pick the colors that are contrasting enough. Don’t chose colors which have the same intensity of color. The best choice is one light and one dark color, whatever the actual colors are.

Mosaic crochet blanket pattern by Dadas place 3

The Timi blanket pattern is now available in Dada’s place shop, here, and you can purchase it also in Dada’s Ravelry shop and Dada’s Etsy shop as well.

I’m looking forward to seeing your versions of Timi blanket, so please share your pictures on Facebook and Instagram and don’t forget to tag me and to use #timiblanket hash tag.