Flower Baby Blanket Crochet Pattern, Floating Flowers Blanket
Flower Crochet Baby Blanket – A Garden of Cuddles
Puff stitch flowers are used to make this adorable crochet baby flower blanket. The stitch might look complicated, but my step-by-step tutorial breaks it down to make it easy.
The beautiful floral crochet stitch is adorned with a matching puff stitch border. It adds the final finishing touch to your cute creation.
You can pair it with a handmade rattle, a hat, or baby booties to make a complete set. I bet it will make a cherished baby shower gift.
Flower Baby Blanket Crochet Pattern
Materials
1. Premier Re-ply DK weight yarn in color yellow
2. US size 7 (4.5 mm) hook for the blanket and a G (4 mm) hook for the border.
3. Tapestry needle to weave in the ends
4. 4 locking stitch markers
Finished Size
The pattern is written for a finished blanket measuring 37 inches wide and 39 inches long, including the border. The sample blanket shown in the pictures is smaller, measuring just 26 inches wide and 28 inches long.
If you follow the pattern as written, your blanket will have 2 more flowers in each row than the sample shown.
Yardage
For a 37 x 39-inch blanket, you will need 7.5 skeins of Premier Re-ply DK-weight yarn or 1900 yards of any other yarn of the same gauge.
Stitch Abbreviations
ch: chain
st: stitch
sc: single crochet
dc: double crochet
sk: skip
YO: yarn over
Gauge
1 puff stitch flower+ 10 dc sts= 4-1/4 inches
Pattern for Gauge Swatch
Ch 48 and follow the pattern below until you have completed 5 rows. Then measure for gauge. Row gauge does not matter.
Stitch Explanations
1. Open Puff Stitch (open puff st): (YO and pull up a tall loop the height of a dc in the specified stitch) 3 times, keep all the loops on your hook. Open puff st made.
2. Closed Puff Stitch (closed puff st): (YO and pull up a tall loop the height of a dc in the specified stitch) 3 times, YO and pull through all the loops on your hook, ch 1 to close. Closed puff st made.
3. sc2tog (sc decrease): Pull up a loop in the next 2 sts, YO, and pull through all 3 loops on your hook to complete a sc2tog
4. sc increase: Work 2sc into the same st.
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Pattern
Ch 138. You can chain any multiple of 18 + 12 to make your blanket a different width.
Note: See pictures 1 and 2 below to see how to make a half puff stitch flower in Row 1.
Row 1 (see pic 1 & 2 above): 1 dc in 3rd ch (2 skipped chs do not count as a st), and next 9 chs, start flower, * (pull up the loop on your hook to the height of a dc and do open puff st on top of the last dc you made (see pic 1 above), you will have 7 loops on your hook now, skip 2 chs and open puff st in next ch, 13 loops on hook now, sk 2 chs and open puff st in next, 19 loops on hook now, YO, pull through all the loops on your hook, ch 1 to close, pull up the loop on your hook to the height of a dc, work a closed puff st into the eye of the puff st cluster below, sk 2 chs, 1 dc in next 10 chs), repeat from * to end, turn. See pic 3 below for finished Row 1. (7 half puff flowers and 80 dc)
Row 2: Ch 2 (does not count as a st), 1 dc in first st, 1 dc in next 9 dc, *(ch 2, closed puff st, ch 2, closed puff st)on top of puff sts from previous row – flower complete. Ch 2, 1 dc in next dc to which the horizontal puff st is attached, 1 dc in next 9 dc), repeat from * to end, turn. See pic 4 below for finished Row 2. (7 full puff flowers and 80 dc)
Row 3: Ch 2, 1 dc in 1st dc, *(pull up the loop on your hook, open puff st on top of the last dc worked, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next st, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next, YO, pull through all the loops on your hook, ch 1 to close, pull up a tall loop, closed puff st in the eye of the puff st cluster, sk 2 sts, 1 dc in next st, 2 dc in next ch 2 space, 1 dc on top of next puff st, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc on top of next puff st, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc in next dc, there should be 10 dc after the flower now), repeat from * until 9 dc left.
Pull up the loop on your hook, open puff st on top of the last dc worked, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next st, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next, YO, pull through all the loops on your hook, ch 1 to close, pull up a tall loop, closed puff st in the eye of the puff st cluster, sk 2 sts, 1 dc in last st, turn. See pic 5 below for finished Row 3. (7 half puff flowers and 80 dc)
Row 4: Ch 2, 1 dc in 1st dc, *(ch 2, closed puff st, ch 2, closed puff st) on top of puff sts from previous row – flower complete. Ch 2, 1 dc in next dc to which the horizontal puff st is attached, 1 dc in next 9 dc), repeat from * until 1 puff stitch half flower is left, (ch 2, closed puff st, ch 2, closed puff st) on top of puff sts from previous row, ch 2, 1 dc in beg ch 2 to get a straight edge, turn. See pic 6 below for finished Row 4. (7 full puff flowers and 80 dc)
Row 5: Ch 2, 1 dc in 1st st, *(2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc on top of next puff st, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc on top of next puff st, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc in next dc, pull up the loop on your hook, open puff st on top of the last dc worked, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next st, sk 2 sts, open puff st on top of next, YO, pull through all the loops on your hook, ch 1 to close, pull up a tall loop, closed puff st in the eye of the puff st cluster, sk 2 sts, 1 dc in next st), repeat from * until one half flower left, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc on top of puff, 2 dc in ch-2 space, 1 dc in next puff, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc on top of last dc. See pic 7 below for finished Row 5.
Repeat rows 2 to 5 until your blanket is about 37 inches long and you end with Row 2, so your last flower is complete.
Border
Round 1: Turn and work along the last row tightly: ch 1, 1 sc in same st, 1 sc in next 9 dc, *(2 sc in next loop, 1 sc in puff st, 1 sc in next ch 2 loop, 1 sc in puff, 2 sc in ch loop, 1 sc in next 10 dc), repeat from * to end of the row, 2 more sc in last dc, pivot to work along left edge, 2 sc across each dc row to next corner, 3 sc in corner.
1 sc under next 9 dc, *2 sc in ch-2 loop, 1 sc under next puff, 1 sc in next ch loop between petals, 1 sc under next puff, 2 sc in next loop, 1 sc under next 10 dc, repeat from * to end, 2 more sc in last st, pivot to work along right edge, 2 sc across each dc row until you reach the next corner, 1 sc in corner, sl st to 1st st. Do not turn.
Round 2: Ch 1, 1 sc in same st, place a marker in this st, * 1 sc in each st to next corner, 3 sc in corner st, repeat from * and after 3 sc in last corner where you started, sl st to first marked sc, do not turn.
Round 3:Ch 1, 1 sc in same st, place a marker in this st, 1 sc in each st to next corner, 2 sc in corner st, now count the sts you have worked so far starting from the marked st. It should be a multiple of 4. If not, unravel some sts and add decreases or increases to make it the nearest multiple of 4.
*( Work 1 more sc in the corner st, place a marker in this st, and continue along the side: 1 sc in each st to next corner, 2 sc in corner st; now count the sts you have worked so far starting from the previous marked st. It should be a multiple of 4 +2. If not, unravel some sts on this edge and add decreases or increases to make it the nearest multiple of 4+2.)
Repeat from * 1 more time to work along the next edge.
Note: When you reach the end of this round, there will be a st before the very first marked st with the beginning ch 1 attached to it. That is the joining sl st that does not count as a st, so the last corner st will be the st right before it.
Next, work 1 more sc in the corner st, place a marker in this st, and continue along the side, 1 sc in each st to the next corner, 3 sc in the corner st. Now count the sts you have worked so far starting from the previous marked st. It should be a multiple of 4. If not, unravel some sts on this edge and add decreases or increases to make it the nearest multiple of 4, sl st to the marked st, and fasten off. Do not turn.
Round 4: Switch to a 4 mm hook. You can take out all the markers now. Count back and skip 14 sts BEFORE the top left corner st, sl st in the st before that (15th st before the corner st), 1 sc in same st, *(ch 2, sk 1 st, closed puff st in next st, ch 2, sl st to 3rd ch from hook to make a picot, ch 2, sk 1 st, 1 sc in next), repeat from * until 2 sts left to the corner, ch 1, sk 2 sts, (closed puff st, ch 1, closed puff st, ch 1, closed puff st) in corner st, ch 1, sk 2 sts (st near puff will be partly hidden), 1 sc in next st), repeat from * to work all around the blanket and when you reach back where you started, after your puff st and picot, ch 2, sk last st and sl st to first sc, fasten off.
Finishing
Weave in any tails left along the back side of the crochet flower blanket.
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