Get the free pattern to crochet this pretty blanket
Crocheting is such a fun craft to get involved in, if you're looking for a great project to help hone your hooking skills, learning how to crochet a blanket is a great place to start.
Every home needs a crochet blanket – they bring style and colour to chairs, sofas and beds as part of your home decor, or you can simply snuggle up with them wherever you are.
This beautiful crochet blanket is super cuddly and so easy to make. It's the perfect craft project for beginners who are looking to practise their skills. If you've mastered basic crochet stitches and a granny square blanket, you'll have no problem with our step-by-step guide to making this crochet throw that uses a pretty flower motif.
For those of you still learning how to crochet, this is a great beginner-friendly pattern for mastering double crochet stitches and half trebles. Don't let any of the crochet lingo or pattern abbreviations panic you, we've got a handy crochet abbreviations glossary to help you out.
You'll get the hang of it in no time as once you've learnt how to crochet a flower motif it's simply a matter of making more in the colours of your preference. We suggest working on it a row at a time by making a small batch crochet flowers motifs and then attaching them together before starting work on the next batch.
Customising your crochet blanket
Our free crochet pattern uses five yarn colours to create a vibrant design that can be adapted to suit whatever colour palette you fancy.
We didn’t want to waste any yarn, so the finished size of our throw was dependant on how many motifs we could make out of each ball.
Some balls had more length than others, so your finished layout may need to be different to ours.
If you want a larger throw, you could either buy more than one ball in each colour or use more than five colours. One of the wonderful things about crochet blankets is that they can also grow over time. So if you were to start with a small cot size baby blanket, you could keep growing that blanket as a child grows up, adding in new colours to reflect their favourites at that point in time.
You could even turn this design into a temperature blanket. This new crochet trend reflects the temperature or weather over the course of the time that you are working on the project. You decide on a mix of 5-7 colours that you want to work with and assign each colour to a certain temperature range. Each flower is then made from wool that corresponds to the temperature over those past few days, and by the end of the project you have a unique blanket in an array of rainbow colours.
Our throw is only a suggestion of how the finished design can look, being made from single identical motifs – the finished throw can be whatever you want it to be. Your crochet flower motifs can also be used for other projects too. If you keep with the same size design , depending on how you arrange and join them together you could make a simple garment like a simple shrug or crochet bunting. If you switch to a thinner yarn and crochet hook you could make crochet jewellery or embellishments and charms for other projects, the choice is yours!
Free crochet blanket pattern
Size
Approximate finished size 80 x 85cm. Each motif measures approximately 11cm in diameter.
You will need
One of each: 100g ball of Paintbox Wool Mix Aran in five colours. We used Stormy Grey 804, Slate Green 826, Pistachio Green 824, Vintage Pink 855 and Mustard Yellow 823 but there are 64 colours to choose from so pick a palette you like.
Abbreviations
ch chain
ch-sp chain space
cm centimetres
dc double crochet
htr half treble
rep repeat
ss slip stitch
st(s) stitch(es)
tr treble.
How to crochet the blanket motif (we made 68)
Base ring 6ch, join with ss in first ch to form a ring.
1st round 1ch (does not count as a st), [1dc into ring, 3ch] 12 times, ss to first dc.
2nd round Ss into each of next 2 ch, 1ch (does not count as a st), 1dc into same 3ch-sp, [3ch, 1dc into next 3ch-sp] 11 times, 1ch, 1htr into top of first dc.
3rd round * 6ch, 1dc into next 3ch-sp **, 3ch, 1dc into next 3ch-sp *; rep from * to * a further 4 times, then rep from * to ** once, 1ch, 1tr into htr that closed previous round.
4th round * [5tr, 2ch, 5tr] into next 6ch-sp, 1dc into next 3ch-sp; rep from * 5 times more ending last rep in tr that closed previous round, ss to next st. Fasten off.
Make motifs in each colour – we made 14 motifs in 3 of the colours and 13 motifs in each of the other 2 colours – this will depend on the number you can make from each ball.
We arranged our motifs in 5 lines of 8 motifs alternating with 4 lines of 7 motifs, you may wish to make your throw narrower and longer. The motifs are joined by hand sewing through the 2ch-sps at the points of each motif, arranging the colours randomly.
Happy crafting!
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