This crochet blanket free pattern was made by me with love for all of you who, like me, perhaps were looking for beautiful crochet candy cane blanket ideas on the net and wished they had stumbled upon something like this- something simple, colourful and festive!

This crochet blanket features stripy granny squares embelished with crochet candy cane appliques and a border made of granny and ribbed stitches to complement the candy cane stripes.

If you wish, once you’re finished, you can go daft with crochet bows and add one for every corner of the blanket or even one for every candy cane, but I opted for just one bright red crochet ribbon tied into a bow on the crochet candy cane heart, all ready for gifting.

Using simple but effective bright festive colours, the pattern is worked in granny stitch, double crochet and front post stitches.

There is a choice of two borders and an optional crochet bow decoration.

The free pattern includes the following photo tutorials: Crochet Slip Stitch Method, Crochet Candy Cane Applique, Joining-As-You-Go & Bow Tie Pasta Effect, Green-Ribbed Border & Crochet Bow Assembly.

This pattern is also available as an instant ad-free download, with the link provided in my blog.

The yarn I used: Stylecraft Special DK (3/ light) yarn in White (6 x 100g skeins), Lipstick (3 x 100g skeins), Grass Green (2 x 100g skeins), Kelly Green (1 x 100g skein) and Matador (1 x 100g skein).