Super Easy Baby Blanket Knitting Patterns

Whenever there’s a new baby in your life, whether it’s your own or someone in your friend group or family is having a baby, there’s a strong drive among all knitters to cover that little thing in knits. And every baby is cuter when surrounded by tiny knit things.

My favorite thing to knit for babies (and I’ve knit a whole book of baby knits) is baby blankets, because you can make them any size and use any stitch pattern you like and they are sure to be useful. The main thing is they don’t have to fit, which is great because newborns come in a lot of different sizes and they grow really fast.

If you’re in the market for some new baby blanket knitting patterns to add to your collection, check out the Doodle Pip Makes Etsy shop. They have (as of this writing) 54 downloadable patterns for baby blankets, all using knits and purls to make cute designs on the surface of the blanket like hearts, bunnies and flowers.

And lest you think these patterns are too girly, there are also dinosaurs (as in the blanket pictured above) and boats. And plenty of patterns that have allover stitch patterns rather than surface designs that make an image.

While some of them are a little more complicated than others (again, like the dinos since there are different patterns across the blanket rather than one large pattern or a repeating one), they’re all doable for newer knitters because they include row by row written instructions rather than having you work from a chart.

In their shop you will also find a few full kits for knitting blankets and coordinating hats, as well as a few already knit projects. Many of their patterns are also available as printed patterns if that’s something you’re into.

[Photo: Doodle Pip Makes]

One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine.

Case in point: Halloween cowls.

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute.

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like.

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use.

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry.

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart.

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry.

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry.

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available.

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