Crochet Baby Blanket Pattern PDF | Striped Basketweave Texture in 3 Colors | Easy, 5 Stitches | 6mm Hook

🧶 Striped Basketweave Baby Blanket — Crochet Pattern

Three colours · Textured stripes · Easy · Only five stitches · 5.5/6 mm hook · Instant PDF download

Not everyone wants a pastel baby blanket.

Mint, peach, lemon, powder pink — that is almost the entire crochet baby blanket aisle, and plenty of parents quietly do not want any of it. Charcoal, slate blue and cream is a baby blanket that looks like something you would have in the house anyway — it sits in a modern nursery without shouting, it photographs well, and it does not stop working the moment the baby is two. 🍼

And the texture does something the colours alone could not. The wide grey and blue bands are worked in a raised basketweave — small blocks standing proud of one another in a chequer — while the narrow cream bands are worked flat and smooth. So the surface changes twice: once in colour, once in relief. Run your hand across it and you feel the stripes before you see them.

All of it from five stitches. Chain, single crochet, half double crochet, slip stitch, and the half double crochet slip stitch that makes the flat cream bands. Nothing else. The blanket looks considered because of how those five are arranged, not because any of them is difficult.

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📖 What You'll Receive

✔️ 1 PDF crochet pattern ✔️ Written instructions ✔️ Full stitch abbreviations list ✔️ Printing guidance for A4 and A5

🪡 The Five Stitches

• CH — chain
• SC — single crochet
• HDC — half double crochet
• SL ST — slip stitch
• HDC SL ST — half double crochet slip stitch, used for the flat cream bands

📊 Skill Level: Easy

No shaping, no assembly, nothing to fit. You work one band, then the next, in a repeating sequence, and finish with a border. The only thing to learn is working around the post of a stitch instead of into the top of it — and once you have that, you have the basketweave, and you have it for everything else you make.

🧶 Yarn

Cotton yarn, in three colours of your choice.

Choose three shades that differ clearly in lightness, not just in hue. That is what makes this blanket read from across a room: a light, a mid-tone and a dark. Three pastels of the same depth will blur into one another and the stripes will disappear — which is exactly what happens to most crochet baby blankets and why so many look softer in person than in the photograph.

🛍️ You'll Also Need

• 5.5 mm / 6 mm crochet hook
• Yarn needle
• Scissors

🖨️ Printing

A4: set the scale to 100% and printer quality to Best. A5: adjust your printer settings, or print on 8.5 × 11 and trim to A5.

💛 Perfect For

A new baby · A modern or neutral nursery · A gift for parents who do not want pastels · A first blanket project · Learning post stitches on something worth finishing

📥 Instant Download

This is a digital crochet pattern. No finished blanket will be shipped. Your file is available immediately after purchase.

📌 Please Note

Follow current safe-sleep guidance when using any blanket with an infant. A handmade blanket like this is for prams, playmats, laps and photographs rather than an unattended cot.

Colours may look slightly different from one screen to another. This listing is for the pattern only, not a finished blanket.