This post will be updated throughout the year as I complete more crochet projects. I am including projects that I found fun to make and think you will enjoy too! It will include various difficulty levels and I have linked the original patterns in each section and where I purchased the yarn. I am by no means an expert when it comes to crochet. If I mess up, I just pull out the messed up area and try again! So if you are new to crocheting, I encourage you to look up videos on YouTube as to how to do certain stitches and just go for it! This is exactly how I learned and in the future, probably after harvest season, I will be adding videos to the YouTube channel to show you how to crochet the free patterns I made this year. I will start with showing you the stitches the pattern uses and then we can make the pattern together!
Zigzag Baby Blanket
I decided I wanted to make something for my niece and nephew that were to be born in June. I wanted to make something that they could use for a long time and that was functional and what better than a blanket. Yes, everyone gives blankets to babies, but the size of these are great for places like car seats or naps on the couch. Since they were rainbow babies, I wanted to have a yarn that incorporated a rainbow theme into it and Hobbii has amazing yarn colours for that. The yarn I purchased for this is the Sultan Deluxe: Martian Pink. This blanket is the one I made for my niece.
The pattern itself is alright for beginners. I would say a difficulty of 3 or 4 out of 10, 10 being expert crochet level. The reason I would not rate this as a 1 or 2 is because it does follow a pattern within each row that you need to repeat for a certain number of stitches. For example, it would be 6 half double crochets, then 3 half double crochet together, then 6 half double crochets, and then 3 half double crochets in the same stitch; and this pattern would be repeated across the row. So essentially is just requires more concentration when making the blanket. However, I found this blanket extremely fun to make! I love the pattern of it and the overall flow of the blanket looks so nice! The pattern is called Ziggy – Baby Blanket. I decided to add a border to this blanket to help the colours pop out. I used the border pattern from this pattern, and I only did the first 2 rows of the border pattern.
Corner-to-Corner Baby Blanket
This pattern is SO easy and a lot of fun to make! If you are new to crocheting, then I would suggest making a corner-to-corner blanket. It uses 1 stitch the entire time and then just chaining. The pattern is very easy to follow as well. I made this blanket for my nephew who was a rainbow baby, just like his twin sister who I made the ZigZag Baby Blanket for. I wanted to use a rainbow colour theme that was more tailored to “boy” colours, so I used the Hobbii yarn called Sultan Deluxe: Andamooka Opal. The border of this blanket was crocheted using the Hobbii yarn Rainbow 8/4: White. The pattern is from Hobbii as well and is called the Zoey Babywrap.
The one thing I would urge you to take note of if you are using this yarn and this pattern is to count the number of times the yarn changes colour and then just note when the half way mark would be. Once you are close to using half of the yarn, that is when you will want to switch to the decrease portion of the pattern. My crocheting was a little tighter than the pattern so I believe I ended up crocheting 5-10 more rows than the pattern had called for and in a blanket like this, the tension guide isn’t a big deal; meaning it doesn’t matter how tight or loose you crochet, you just need to take note of when you are close to using half of the yarn.
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