Granny square baby blankets can use bold color layouts, checkerboard arrangements, or a large grid of smaller squares. These eight 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
The Knotted Nest made this for her cousin’s first baby, an earth mama, and says it was a labor of love with lots of trial, error and frogging. It combines 15 rainbow motifs with mini bean stitch squares, on a size K hook, and she recommends blocking it, so you will want blocking mats and pins. The ad-free PDF is sold separately.
2. Checkerboard Granny Square Blanket
Erangi Udeshika’s checkerboard blanket joins checkerboard squares, each crocheted on its own, in two colors, and it is a free size pattern, so you can make anything from a throw to a bedspread. She used solid and variegated yarns, and says scraps work too, and you can add different colors to each square.
3. Granny Square Baby Blanket
Becky Skuse designed this for Simply Yarn as a rainbow nursery blanket in DK yarn. Each colored square is 7.5 cm (3 inches), 9 cm (3½ inches) with its border, and the finished blanket is about 100 by 100 cm (39½ inches). The squares are joined with crochet stitches, so you only weave in ends at the end.
4. Farmhouse Granny Square Baby Blanket
Debra Field’s farmhouse blanket uses rustic colors from Paintbox Simply DK. Each square is four rounds, the first three each in a different color and the fourth in the main color, joined with a slip stitch seam and finished with a single crochet border. She says the squares can be made on the go and assembled later, so it is a good summer project.
5. Pastel Granny Square Blanket
Kylee’s blanket is rated Beginner / Easy, in I Love This Yarn, and uses only one skein of each color. It finishes about 38 by 50 inches and joins as you go, and she has a YouTube tutorial on the join-as-you-go method.
6. Paisley Baby Blanket
The Paisley is a 31.5 inch square baby blanket, unblocked, made from sunburst granny squares of 16.5 cm, each square in a different color combination. Amanda calls it a relaxing, meditative project, and the page covers the layout, joining and border. A printable PDF is sold.
7. Daisy Granny Square Baby Blanket
Marie’s daisy blanket has 48 squares, each about 4 inches, for a finished 30 by 40 inches after washing and blocking. It uses Drops Merino Extra Fine DK on a 4 mm hook: 1 skein mustard, 4 off white and 6 desert rose, and it joins as you go.
8. Continuous Granny Square Blanket
Jo begins from a magic circle and works outward in rounds, so there are no squares to join. She recommends a size 3 (light) yarn for a baby blanket, which is light and airy, and size 4 (medium) for a car seat blanket, stroller blanket, lapghan or throw. There is a video tutorial, and a border is included.
