Rose blankets can use a grid of rose motifs, a circular rose bouquet, or floral granny squares. These eight original patterns list different motif counts, finished measurements, and skill levels so you can compare the scale before starting.
With this many motifs to join, a blocking mat and pins make squaring everything up before seaming much less painful.
Rose blanket patterns to explore
1. Modern Rose Afghan
Tamara Kelly’s Modern Rose Afghan is built from 6-inch square motifs, and she suggests multiplying by 6 to size the blanket to your needs. The example arranges 36 motifs in a 6 by 6 grid, and the page gives guidelines for other sizes. It uses Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton (186 yards per skein) on a 5.5 mm hook, in a white main color and five contrast colors, about 1,800 yards in all. The motifs are worked with a magic circle that is pulled closed in stages, so read round 1 carefully.
2. Rose Bouquet Blanket
Ariana’s Rose Bouquet Blanket is rated beginner and finishes at 120 cm (about 47 inches) in diameter, with 24 red roses worked with a 6 mm hook on a green base. The pattern is written in US terms with Craft Yarn Council abbreviations and is only in English. It uses Paintbox Yarns Simply Chunky. Because it is one round blanket rather than a joined grid, the layout is different from the others in this roundup.
3. Flower Granny Square Blanket
Agat’s Flower Granny Square Blanket is an updated version of an earlier pattern, with bigger and less dense squares. It finishes at 41 by 53 inches (106 by 136 cm), which is throw size, in DK (#3) yarn on a 4.5 mm hook. The throw takes 8 skeins of Alize Extra in the background color (about 1,928 yards) plus 1 skein each of five flower colors. She notes you can use leftovers for the flowers, and any other yarn with a suitable hook works.
4. Crochet Rose Granny Square
Roseanna’s rose granny square from Moara Crochet is a single 10 by 10 cm square, so you decide how many to make. The materials are small: about 10 meters of colored DK yarn for the rose, 3 meters of green and 5 meters of cream, with a matching hook. Gauge is 19 double crochets and 10 rows over 10 cm. It uses a double crochet cluster stitch and works front and back loops for the dimensional rose. This is also the pattern linked in #6.
5. Floral Granny Square Blanket
Carmen’s floral granny square blanket has two stated sizes: 30 squares makes about 34 by 40 inches, and 80 squares make about 52 by 64 inches for a bigger throw. It uses any DK weight yarn and includes popcorn stitches, which she says can be tricky at first but give a dimensional flower in each square. The pattern has an easy joining technique, and an ad-free PDF with a photo tutorial and a chart for the square is sold separately.
6. Rose Garden Blanket Square
Janne Kleivset’s Rose Garden Blanket Square uses the Rose Garden crochet stitch, a filet-style technique built from dc2tog and dc5tog clusters that form small roses across the fabric rather than one large center flower. It finishes at 20 cm x 20 cm (about 8 x 8 inches) using worsted weight yarn in two colors and a 5 mm hook, and takes under a skein of each color. The 14-row pattern repeats a 4-row sequence, so once you learn the rose repeat it goes quickly, and multiple squares join into a full blanket.
7. Rose Granny Square
Crafty Kitty Crochet’s rose square is a Valentine’s Day stash-buster, and the blanket shown uses about 700 yards each of pink, cream and white medium weight yarn, plus a simple double crochet border. The square uses an H-8 (5 mm) hook and two skeins of Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice (one main color, one contrast). The 3D petals come from front loop triple crochet, framed by a solid granny edging, and the finished square is about 5.25 inches.
8. Rose Flower Granny Square
Loopara’s Rose Flower Granny Square is a photo tutorial that also includes a PDF. It uses three colors of Loopara Milk Cotton: one for the background, one for the rose and one for the leaves (mint, soft pink and green in the sample), though you can choose your own. The rose is built over the first seven rounds, leaves are added in round eight, and the last two rounds finish the border. Each square is about 3.7 inches, so you will need many of them for a blanket.