Crochet Newborn Blanket Pattern Free, Nature's Cradle Blanket

Newborn Crochet Blanket Free Pattern with Textured Stripes

This delightful newborn blanket pattern features a soothing combination of green, beige, blue, and cream stripes, creating a modern yet timeless design perfect for welcoming a baby boy.

Your little one will love this soft, textured blanket. The pattern uses a simple two-row repeat, and you’ll create subtle texture through alternating stitches.

The modern color scheme can easily be modified to suit any nursery decor. This special blanket will become a cherished keepsake.

Crochet Newborn Blanket Pattern Free

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Materials

1. Bernat Baby Blanket yarn in Vanilla, Seafoam Sparkle, Lemon Lime, and Baby Sand colors. It is a size 6 super chunky chenille yarn.

2. An N/P (10mm) crochet hook

3. Tapestry needle to weave in the ends.

Finished Size

36″ wide and 37″ long

Yardage

2 skeins of the Vanilla color (cream) and 1 skein of the other 3 colors. Each skein is 220 yards long.

Stitch Abbreviations

The pattern is written in US terms.

st: stitch

ch: chain

sc: single crochet

dc: double crochet

YO: yarn over

fphdc: front post half double crochet (explanation is given below)

RS: right side of your crochet fabric

WS: Wrong side of the crochet fabric

Stitch Explanations

fphdc (front post half double crochet): Yarn over (yo) your hook, instead of inserting your hook into the top of the stitch as usual, insert your hook from front to back to front around the post (vertical part) of the stitch, YO and pull up a loop around the post (you should now have 3 loops on your hook), YO and pull through all 3 loops at once to complete your fphdc stitch.

sc2tog: Pull up a loop in each of the 2 sts specified, YO, and pull through all the 3 loops on your hook to complete a sc2tog.

Gauge

Pattern for Gauge Swatch

Chain 18 and follow the pattern for the blanket without changing colors. Keep repeating Rows 2 and 3 until your piece measures 4 inches. Then measure for gauge.

Gauge

3 repeats = 4-1/2″ inches long.

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With Vanilla color (cream) yarn, ch 72. Chain any multiple of 3 if you want to adjust the width of your blanket.

Row 1: 1 sc in the back bump of the 2nd ch from hook, 1 sc in the back bump of each ch across to end. ——71 sts

Row 2: Ch 2 (counts as a hdc here and throughout), sk 1 st, 3 hdc in next, *(sk next 2 sts, 3 hdc in next), repeat from * until you have 2 sts left, sk next st, 1 hdc in last st, turn. ——–23 repeats+ 2 hdc

Notes

1. Row 4 is always worked on the RS of the blanket (the textured side) and Row 5 on the WS.

2. Do not fasten off the cream color yarn when you change colors, but drop it to pick up later. For the other 3 colors, fasten off after every stripe.

3. The color is changed at the end of Rows 3 and 5. To add a new color seamlessly, start working your last hdc as usual, but when you have 3 loops on your hook, pull through the new color yarn to complete your hdc.

Row 3 (RS): Ch 2, sk next st, (fphdc, hdc, fphdc) in next st, *[sk next 2 sts, (fphdc, hdc, fphdc) in next st], repeat from * until 2 sts left, sk next st, 1 hdc on top of beginning ch-2 while joining beige color yarn, turn. Do not fasten off the cream color yarn.——23 repeats+ 2 hdc

Row 4 (WS): Ch 2 (counts as a hdc here and throughout), sk 1 st, 3 hdc in next, *(sk next 2 sts, 3 hdc in next), repeat from * until you have 2 sts left, sk next st, 1 hdc in beginning ch-2, turn. ——–23 repeats+ 2 hdc

Row 5 (RS): Ch 2, sk next st, (fphdc, hdc, fphdc) in next st, *[sk next 2 sts, (fphdc, hdc, fphdc) in next st], repeat from * until 2 sts left, sk next st, 1 hdc on top of beginning ch-2 while joining cream color yarn back, turn. Fasten off the beige color yarn.——23 repeats+ 2 hdc

Keep repeating Rows 4 and 5 changing colors at the end of Row 5 every time. Starting from the very first cream stripe, the color sequence is cream, beige, cream, blue, cream, lemon, cream, beige, and so on. Make a total of 21 stripes. You last stripe will be a cream one. Do not fasten off.

Border

Border notes

1. Due to the nature of the stitch, the edges where you work your first and last rows can be wider than the rest of the blanket. So we will add decreases along these 2 edges in the first round.

2. We will also add more decreases along all 4 edges in Round 2 to straighten them out. I have provided the math for adding decreases, but feel free to add more or less decreases based on how your edges turned out. Just try to distribute decreases evenly as far as possible. It might take a little bit of trial and error to nail it.

Round 1

Ch 1 at the corner, continue along the left edge of the blanket and work 3 sc across each stripe end. Work over yarn tails as far as possible to hide them, but do not work over more than 2 tails at a time. Work 3 sc in the corner.

*(1 sc in next 5 sts, sc2tog across next 2 sts), repeat from * to next corner, 3 sc in corner, 3 sc across each stripe end until the next corner, 3 sc in the corner.

Working along the last row, *(1 sc in next 7 sts, sc2tog), repeat from * until 1 st is left, 2 sc in last st, sl st to 1st sc on left side. Do not turn.

Round 2

Ch 1, 1 sc across each st, adding a sc2tog at any point where there is a bump to straighten it out.

3 sc in the corner, *(1 sc in next 10 sts, sc2tog across next 2 sts), repeat from * to last st, 1 sc in last st, 3 sc in corner, *(1 sc in next 10 sts, sc2tog across next 2 sts), repeat from * to last 3 sts, 1 sc in each st to corner, 3 sc in corner st, *(1 sc in next 13 sts, sc2tog across next 2 sts), repeat from * to last 4 sts, 1 sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in next st, sl st to 1^st sc. Fasten off.