Easy Baby Blanket Knitting Patterns

Looking for an easy and cute baby blanket knitting pattern? Here’s a bunch of great ones you can grab from Etsy!

Looking for more Baby Knitting patterns? Check out these designs on Sirdar’s website.

Daisy Gray Knits designed this simple baby blanket knitting pattern with columns of Stockinette broken up by Garter Stitch with a Moss Stitch edging. It comes out about 20 by 30 inches.

The Snuggle Time baby blanket from Leelee Knits is super cute and simple, with columns of Stockinette and ridges of Garter Stitch that look sort of like bamboo. It comes out to 27 by 32 inches.

This sweet blanket from Petit Mouton Francais alternates plain blocks with ones with simple heart shapes worked in Reverse Stockinette. The blanket is worked in one piece with a textured stitch edging and measures 23.6″ x 31.5″.

Alternating block of different stitch patterns add texture but not difficulty to this baby blanket knitting pattern from belovedLT. It comes in three sizes, from 22 by 28 to 35 by 43.

Lots of fun stitch patterns combine in this simple blanket that can also be made throw sized by PURE by Linda Whaley. There are square and rectangular versions sized for babies, as well as a throw blanket and a large sofa blanket.

Throw some stripes into simple knits and purls to make a basic baby blanket that doesn’t look that simple. This one from Candy Lou Creations uses seven colors but it’s meant to be a stash buster so you can use as many or as few as you like. As written its 22 by 28 inches but it would be very easy to alter.

If you’re ready to learn cables or already know how to do simple cables, this blanket with an easy cable and panels of Stockinette and Garter stitch. The pattern has small and medium baby blanket sizes as well as a crib-sized blanket. You can get it from Matilda’s Meadow.

Looking for more Baby Knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

Not too long ago I did a test knit for another designer that was for a cabled cardigan. It’s really cozy and nice but it just about broke me in a ton of different ways. I couldn’t get gauge, which I suppose is my own problem, but mainly I was somehow both bored and forced to pay attention at the same time.

Because it used the same cable all over, I always had to know what row I was on, but nine out of ten of those rows, nothing in particular was going on. So I couldn’t stop paying attention, but what I needed to attend to was boring.

It may have ruined me for knitting cabled sweaters, but maybe I just need something that’s more engaging. Like this Modern Aran Cardigan pattern from Lion Brand Yarn.

This is a reworking of an old pattern from their archives, and you can tell that form the classic look of the cables and the oversized feel (nothing cropped about this one!). It has allover cables, but like a classic Aran sweater it’s not the same cable, so you’ll have to pay attention to what row you’re on and what cable turns happen for which cables on that row.

Because of this, it’s considered an intermediate knitting pattern, but if you’re comfortable working from multiple charts at once it shouldn’t be a problem for you. There are three different charts and seven different cable moves.

Also because the pattern is so big and boxy there are only two sizes available, with a finished chest measurement of either 49 or 63 inches (that’s 124.5 or 160 cm). It’s up to you to decide how much ease you would like and whether that will work for your body.

The pattern uses worsted weight yarn (and calls for another classic, Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool). It calls for six buttons and includes pockets to make it extra cozy.

This one looks like a great winter project to make and to wear if you’re up for a bit of a challenge. You can grab the free pattern or buy a kit with the yarn needed direct from Lion Brand Yarn.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn]

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