This pattern is also available for free on my website HERE.

Make a super cozy baby blanket that little ones can take with them through the toddler years into early childhood! All you need to know are basic double crochet stitches. Insert your hook beneath dcs and you’ll master the dc spike stitch, giving your blanket a lovely woven texture. This is a nice neutral option! Great for baby showers where the parents aren’t sharing or finding out the gender ahead of time.

This blanket turned out bigger than I’d expected! The super bulky weight yarn tends to stretch as you work and the project gets heavier and heavier as you go! Use the gauge information to adjust as you see fit. Since it’s such a large blanket, I think it would also look lovely with a narrower start (say, a starting ch of 52) and fewer yarn colors. You’ll end up with a truer ombre if you omit the bold orange and black skeins, for example. You could also try sizing down to a size N/9mm crochet hook, which is what the yarn label suggests. Good luck and enjoy!

Materials

● Size 6 super bulky weight yarn, approximately 1,000 yards. For this pattern I used Lion Brand Hometown Yarn (81 yards/skein) in the following colors:
○ 1 Skein Houston Cream
○ 1 Skein Aspen Tweed
○ 5 Skeins Catskills Corner
○ 1 Skein Highland Park Beige
○ 1 Skein Bellefontaine Concrete
○ 1 Skein Cocoa Beach
○ 1 Skein Huntington Foliage
○ 1 Skein Stowe Sugar Maple
○ 1 Skein South Dakota Black
● Size P/11.5mm crochet hook
● Scissors
● Stitch markers
● Tapestry needle for weaving in ends