Are you looking for a New Baby Blanket to make with a fun twist on the basket weave stitch?
Are you looking for something easy to make that looks complicated? Then give this Big Block Baby Blanket a try!
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This is a fun baby blanket to make. I decided to make a little twist with the basket weave pattern and it turned out beautiful.
If you are like me, you don’t like counting your stitches but you want your pattern to turn out the way it’s supposed to. You probably also want to watch a movie or a movie marathon and crochet. One of the nice things about this pattern is that you don’t have to count after the second row.
I tend to do a quick count every now and then to check but you can tell with the way the blocks are that your count is correct. So each block is 10 stitches and the rows are 9 rows and then at the 10th row make your change to a new set of blocks. But you still really don’t need to count. To make sure that you have 9 rows in your block count the rows on the wrong side block which is the block that is bpdc. That is the easiest way to see how many rows.
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Size 4.00mm / G Hook
To check if you have the correct crochet hook for this pattern, here is a crochet hook conversion too for you.
fpdc = front post double crochet; yarn over and go around the front of the post, yarn over and pull around, yarn over and pull through the first two loops, yarn over and pull through the last two loops.
Row 2: fpdc in the next 10 stitches, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x10,fpdc x10, bpdc x10, fpdc x10 and 1 dc, ch 3 and turn (11 blocks)
Row 6: fpdc in the next 10 stitches, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x10,fpdc x10, bpdc x10, fpdc x10 and 1 dc, ch 3 and turn (11 blocks)
Row 15: fpdc in the next 10 stitches, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x 10, fpdc x 10, bpdc x10,fpdc x10, bpdc x10, fpdc x10 and 1 dc, ch 3 and turn (11 blocks)
End of blocks
Begin new blocks
Begin new set of block (make the next set of blocks like the first set of blocks, and then the set of blocks after that like the second set – continue to alternate sets of blocks until you have 14 blocks length.
For the border, single crochet around the entire blanket.
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