Easy multicolored baby blanket Knitting Pattern

The beginner baby knitting pattern is such an easy project to work on whilst traveling or watching tv on a chilly night.  But you don’t have to wait for the weather to cool down so much, as the blanket is about stroller size.

With the self-striping yarn and simple design, this soft blanket looks like the color transitions were all planned out. (Depending on where you live, you may call it variegated yarn or multicolored yarn/muti-colored or multi- coloured).

This knitting project is my contribution to the Christmas in July Make Along 2023 with Underground Crafter.

Kickstart the handmade holiday season — including crochet, knitting, and sewing projects contributed by 27 bloggers to bring you a month full of free patterns. There’s something new to make every day in July. Each week will have a theme.

Week 1 (July 1-7): Babies, Kids, and Teens
Week 2 (July 8-14): Women
Week 3 (July 15-21): Gifts for Anyone
Week 4 (July 22-28): Home
Week 5 (July 29-31): Pets

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Grab the free and easy pattern to knit a multi-colored baby blanket with variegated yarn, mainly knitted in stocking stitch with a garter stitch border. 

This beautiful blanket has just enough texture. 

It’s a great knitting project producing a colorful blanket and making it a lovely gift for a baby shower.

Hand-knit blankets are rare.  You and I know why.

It takes time to complete and a couple of skeins of yarn too.

When knitting a baby blanket, you need to consider a few factors:

• Season – wool is more suitable for a winter blanket, whilst cotton or linen will work for warmer weather.
• Soft yarn – use the softest yarn for your darling baby, with no scratchiness or fuzziness.
• Yarn weight – keep the blanket as light as possible.
• Washable yarn – when you spend so much time knitting a blanket, you don’t want your cosy blanket to be ruined after the first wash.

MATERIALS NEEDED: 

• Around 6 x 100g balls Kartopu Cozy Wool Prints (between 600 and 700 yards),medium (worsted) weight yarn (multi-color yarn). The Kartopu yarn is a 75% acrylic and 25% wool blend.
• Feel free to use a solid color yarn of your choice and alternate different colors to create the striped effect.
• Long knitting needles, size 8mm, 11 US size, 0 UK size.
• Tapestry needle.
• Scissors.
• Measuring Tape.
• The Pattern.

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BASIC STITCHES USED:

Basic knitting stitches and knitting skills required:

• Casting on stitches
• Knit stitches
• Yarn forward
• Purl stitches
• Casting off stitches

NOTES

1. The pattern is worked flat (you can use circular needles if you are familiar with using them).
2. The border is worked in garter stitch, the blanket section is worked in stockinette and a few rows are in a novelty stitch pattern.
3. Yarnovers in this pattern are not to increase stitches or to create lace openings, but purely to create loops to tie into bows.
4. Yarn over (twice) means you wrap the yarn around the needle 2 times.
5. How to create the bows:- drop the yarnovers. Pull taut and knot twice to tie the pair of loops into a bow. (See video below)
6. Once you’ve dropped the yarnovers, hold the 2 loops in your left hand, and knit 2 or 3 stitches to ensure your next stitches are not too loose.
7. Refer to the image below.

SIZE / DIMENSIONS (APPROXIMATE):

Finished size: 33.5″ wide (86 cm) x 46″ long (approximately 117 cm) 

The size can easily be adjusted to other baby blanket sizes.

GAUGE:

With the materials as listed, my gauge to obtain a 4″ x 4″ is :

17 stitches knit over 20 rows.

ABBREVIATIONS

*– * – repeat from *

co – cast on

k – knit

p – purl

RS – right side

st  – stitch

sts – stitches

yo – yarn over

Here’s the link to the Make Along again:

Visit Underground Crafter to learn more about the prizes, enter the giveaway, and get links to each Christmas in July Make Along post as it is released.

Beginner knitting pattern for an easy baby blanket 

STITCH PATTERN FOR AN EASY BABY BLANKET:

See Video below (US terms)

Written Instructions

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Assuming you knit with 2 straight needles:

Co 107sts.

Knit as follows: –

Rows 1 – 10: knit across.

Rows 11 to 14 create the first 4-row pattern.

11th Row: k7, p3, *k7, p3* (9 times), repeat from* to last 7 sts, k7.

12th Row: k10, *p7, k3*, repeat from* to last 7 sts, k7.

13th Row: as row 11.

14th Row: as row 12.

15th Row: knit across.

16th Row: k7, p6, *y/o twice, p1, y/o twice, p9*, repeat from * to last 14 sts, y/o twice, p1, y/o twice, p6, k7.

17th Row: k13, *drop y/o (from your needle), k1, drop y/o, k9*, repeat from * to last 14 sts, drop y/o (from your needle), k1, drop y/o, k13.

18th Row: as row 16.

19th Row: as row 17.

20th Row: k7, purl to last 7 sts, k7.

Rows 21 to 24: repeat rows 11 to 14.

Rows 25 to 30 create the second 6-row pattern.

25th Row: knit across.

26th Row: k7, purl to last 7 sts, k7.

27th Row: knit across.

28th Row: k7, purl to last 7 sts, k7.

29th Row: knit across.

30th Row: k7, purl to last 7 sts, k7.

Pattern rows 11 to 14 and 25 to 30 create a 10-row pattern.

Repeat these 10 rows 15 more times.

Rows 181 to 184: repeat rows 11 to 14.

Rows 185 to 190: repeat rows 15 to 18.

Rows 191 to 194: repeat rows 11 to 14.

Rows 195 to 204: knit across.

Cast off and weave in the ends.

If you loved this project, you’ll love these knit stitch patterns too:

• Knit Cable and Tweed Stitch
• Hyacinth Stitch
• Buffball Knit Stitch pattern
• Lozenge or Diamond Lace stitch