Granny Square Baby Blanket Patterns: 7 Free Designs

Granny square baby blankets can use bold color layouts, checkerboard arrangements, or a large grid of smaller squares. These three patterns state their square counts and finished measurements, which makes their scale easier to compare before you begin.

With a full grid of squares to join, a tapestry needle for seaming is worth having on hand before you start.

Granny square baby blanket patterns to explore

1. Rainbow Squares Crochet Baby Blanket

Nikki’s intermediate Rainbow Squares Baby Blanket combines 15 rainbow motifs with 15 mini-bean-stitch solid squares in a 6-by-5 layout. Bulky yarn and a 6.5 mm hook create a 36 by 44-inch blanket; the squares are slip-stitched together and finished with a single-crochet edge. View the pattern.

2. Checkerboard Granny Square Blanket

Erangi Udeshika’s intermediate Checkerboard Blanket uses 30 two-color squares in a 5-by-6 layout. The 5.25-inch motifs are joined with the flat zipper method, framed by a five-round border, and make a 34 by 30-inch sample. View the pattern.

3. Granny Square Baby Blanket

Becky Skuse’s baby blanket uses 100 colored granny squares, with 10 squares in each of 10 DK yarn colors, joined into a 10-by-10 grid with cream borders. Written in UK terms for a 4 mm hook, the finished blanket measures about 100 by 100 cm, or 39.5 inches square. View the pattern.

4. Farmhouse Granny Square Baby Blanket

Debra Field’s Farmhouse Baby Blanket uses 56 four-round squares, changing color each round and returning to the main color for round four. The motifs are slip-stitch seamed and framed by five single-crochet border rounds; in Paintbox Simply DK with a 5 mm hook. View the pattern.

5. Pastel Granny Square Blanket

Kylee’s Pastel Granny Square Blanket uses 30 six-round granny squares in Soft Pink, Orchid, Arctic Ice, Menthe, Buttercup, and Light Peach. The squares are joined using the Join as You Go method in a five-by-six layout, producing an approximately 38 by 50-inch finished blanket. View the pattern.

6. Paisley Baby Blanket

Amanda at Maisie and Ruth joins 16 sunburst granny squares across four color designs with a flat slip-stitch seam, finishing 31.5 by 31.5 inches unblocked, in worsted yarn on an H/5mm hook with a five-round shell-and-picot border. View the pattern.

7. Daisy Granny Square Baby Blanket

Marie at Adorecrea joins 48 daisy-motif squares, about 4 inches each, in a 6-by-8 grid using the join-as-you-go method, in DK yarn on a 4mm hook, finishing about 30 by 40 inches after blocking with a double-crochet and picot border. View the pattern.

Compare square count and layout

Choose the 30-square rainbow or checkerboard layout for fewer motifs, or the 100-square grid for a denser patchwork look. Use the pattern’s own joining and border instructions.