You’ll need to know some basic knitting and crochet skills to make this pattern. The gray square is made by knitting and the border is added with a crochet pattern.

The pattern is fairly easy once you get used to the K1B (knit into the stitch below). It feels like you’re doing something wrong by knitting into the bottom and letting the stitch fall off. But once you master the K1B (check out this video), it’s just simple knit and purl stitches.

Finished blanket is 38” long by 32” wide