Crocheted Baby Blankets I've made

Today, I wanted to share with you the few baby blankets I've made for family & friends. Most recently, I made on for my sister's baby shower. Her & her husband want the gender of the baby to be a surprise, so they've chosen the nursery colors to be brown & sage green. I found this sweet pattern on the Lion Brand Yarn website, and thought it was perfect for her!


I chose to make a few changes to the pattern just to make it a bit more personal. I really wanted a chocolate brown yarn, so used the Lion Brand Vanna's Choice Baby yarn in Chocolate Cake & Sweet Pea. Another change I made was making the blanket 5x5 granny squares, instead of 7x7. If I had done the 7x7 the blanket would have been too big for a baby in my opinion. My last change was the border. The pattern calls for just a single stitch brown border around the blanket, but that just wasn't enough for my future neice/nephew. I think my border looks much better!


That seems plenty big for a baby blanket! And this yarn is sooooooo soft! I have a pattern I've picked out for my sister-in-laws daughter who will be one in April that uses this same yarn! I can't wait to get started on it!

Here's a look at the booties and blanket that I made for my cousin who had a baby boy. The pattern for the booties came from a book I bought years ago, and these were the first pair of booties I have ever made! They turned out pretty darn cute!




Again, I found the pattern for the blanket on the Lion Brand website. I really liked the style and wanted to try it out. I followed the pattern exactly except for the yarn choice. I used Lion Brand's Pound of Love yarn in Pastel Blue & Pastel Green. The look is meant to resemble tweed. I thought these two colors together turned out great!

This baby blanket I'm REALLY proud of because it's my own design! It's not real over the top, but it was perfect for a friend's little boy. Again I used Lion Brand's Pound of Love yarn in Pastel Blue, Pastel Green, & Pastel Yellow.


Here's a close up of the border. I thought it looked kind of like train tracks which is great for a little boy! My hubby also liked this border, and thinks I should do this border more often.


The next blanket was made for the same friend's little girl. I found this yarn at Walmart, & it was too soft to resist! I followed the pattern that was on the wrapper around the yarn, but you can also found it here on the Bernat website. The yarn was Baby Boucle in White & Dust of Pink.



I didn't like the border in the pattern (that seems to happen a lot), so I did my own. However, I can't remember exactly how I did this border. I wanted the border to look like a ruffle, and I tried about 3-4 borders before I went with this one. I think it turned out great! Plus, I've got enough yarn to make another one or try out the tweed pattern using this yarn!



My current crochet projects are making some booties for my sister & finishing a blanket for my daughter then I will get started on my neice's blanket. I'm also looking at more baby blanket patterns because my sister-in-law is expecting her 2nd baby in July! So exciting! If they have a boy, I've got a pattern already picked out! Thanks for stopping by!

~Davina