Easy Delightful Springtime Stripe

Hello friends, I have a great little modern baby blanket to share with you today. The Easy Delightful Springtime Stripe baby blanket is simply textured and reversible. Not only that, but it would look great with any color combination. The pattern would work great for either a boy or a girl, depending on the colors used. It is simple enough for even the most beginner of crocheters.

The Stitches: Single Crochet and Double Crochet

The combination of the basic single crochet, double crochet, and chain stitch, along with the random stripe pattern, make this blanket a superbly unique and modern looking baby blanket. The stitch pattern is a two-row repeat, meaning that you simply repeat two rows over again until you have reached your desired length.

In the first row, you will be crocheting a single crochet, skipping a stitch, and chaining one. This is repeated across the row, ending with a single crochet in the last stitch. The second row you repeat a single crochet in the single crochet of the previous row, and double crochet over the chain one space and into the stitch in the row below. By crocheting a longer dc over the chain one space, you create a slight texture in the fabric. It also helps to create a denser fabric.

Not a Yarn Eater

This easy blanket not only uses basic stitches, but it uses less than 18 oz of yarn, Definately not a yarn eater at all. Use any color combination you would like and create a unique look for that special little bundle of joy.

The Stripes

When I first started this project, I wasn’t exactly sure how I wanted the stripes to look. I really didn’t want it to be a sysmetrical design either. You know, where you use color A for so many rows, then color B, then color C. Finally, you just repeat the color pattern. So that left me with trying to figure out a color pattern that would still look good. Because of the 2 row repeat of the stitch pattern, I need to use even number of rows.

After searching around to find different stripe patterns, I finally came across a random stripe generator. While playing with it a bit, I eventualy came up with a stripe pattern that I liked. Simply plug in the colors you are using, the number of rows for the finished product, and any row multiples that you want, and wala, it generates the pattern for you. I will definately be using this again in the future. You can find the random stripe generator that here.

A Stash Buster

What makes this pattern even better is it was a stash buster project for me. It does not use a tone of yarn, so if you have just a small amount yarn you would like to use up, this is the way to do it. I had about 9 oz of the lime green, lilac and white TLC yarn by Red Heart. Even though these colors are discontinued, the pattern I still did not use all that I had left either.

Easy Delightful Springtime Stripe Pattern

A free copy of the pattern is written below. Of course, there is also the option of an ad free PDF of the pattern here, if that is something that you would prefer. Be sure to check out my other PDF patterns on my shop here.

The link below is a pattern video tutorial for the Delightful Springtime Modern Baby blanket.

https://www.youtube.com/@dulcebelladesigns5796/videos

MATERIALS:

• Yarn: TLC by Red Heart in White 6 oz
• lime 6 oz
• lilac 6 oz
• Crochet hook size G/6 or 4.25 mm
• Tapestry needle
• scissors

STITCHES:

• Single Crochet-SC
• Double Crochet-DC
• Chain-CH

• Guage: 20 stitches and 20 rows equals 4″
• Finished Size: 28″ X 34″

PATTERN NOTES

• The chain 1 at the beginning of every row doe not count as a stitch
• This pattern is a 2 row repeat
• The stripe pattern used in this pattern was generated by a random stripe generator.
• The border is made from FPDC and BPDC
• Do NOT finish off at the end of the last row of white. The first round of the border will be done with white. Simple ch 1 and turn, working across the last row made.
• In rounds 3 & 4 of the border fpdc’s are worked in the fpdc of the previous round, and bpdc are worked in the bpdc of the previous rounds.

DELIGHTFUL SPRINGTIME STRIPES AFGHAN BODY

Foundation Chain: Chain 130 or any even number of chains

FOUNDATION ROW 1: SC in the second chain from hook, ch 1, sk 1. *sc in next, ch 1, sk 1 ch, sc in next ch.* Rpt across the row. Sc in the last ch. Ch 1 and turn.

ROW 2: Sc in 1st sc. DC over chain 1 space and into the skipped ch 1 row below. *SC in next sc, dc over ch-1 space and into the ch 1 row below*. Repeat across the row, ending with a sc in the last stitch. Ch 1 and turn.

ROW 3: SC in the first sc, ch 1, sk 1 st. *sc in next sc, ch 1, sk 1 dc, sc in next sc*. Repeat across the row to last sc. Sc in the last sc. Ch 1 and turn.

Repeat rows 2 and 3 for pattern.

The stripe pattern for this blanket was created with a stripe generator found here. Or you can work the following stripes listed below for a total of 158 rows.

• 4 rows lime
• 8 rows white
• 16 rows lilac
• 4 rows lime
• 2 rows white
• 4 rows lilac
• 8 rows lime
• 4 rows white
• 4 rows lilac
• 4 rows white
• 16 rows lilac
• 4 rows lime
• 16 rows white
• 8 rows lilac
• 2 rows lime
• 2 rows lilac
• 2 rows lime
• 2 rows white
• 4 rows lime
• 16 rows lilac
• 4 rows white
• 8 rows lime
• 16 rows white

Finally, finish off and use the tapestry needle to weave in ends.

BORDER

(WITH WHITE) RND 1: 3 sc in each corner, and 1 sc in each stitch and end of each row around. Sl st to first stitch, finishing the last step by bringing in the lime color.

(WITH LIME)RND 2: Chain 3. DO NOT TURN. *3 DC in the corner sc. Dc in each of the sc across.*Repeat around. Sl st to the first ch-3. Ch 3 BUT DO NOT TURN.

RND 3: FPDC around the first dc of the previous row. BPDC around the next dc. Alternate FPDC and BPDC all the way around the blanket. Sl st to beginning ch-3. DO NOT TURN, ch 3.

RND 4: FPDC around all FPDC of previous row and BPDC around all BPDC in previous around the blanket. Sl st to beginning st.

Finish off and weave in ends.

FINAL NOTE

Once again, I hope that you have enjoyed this Easy Delightful Springtime Stripe Baby Afghan pattern. Please be sure to share your versions of this pattern with me. Thanks for stopping by DulceBella Designs! Until next time, sit, relax, and stay a while and always glorify God by creating beautiful crochet art!