The Green Heart Granny Square Baby Blanket
This beautiful Green Heart Granny Square Baby Blanket was quick to make and the results are lovely.
This post has been updated in April 2024 – to include links to the free Heart Granny Square tutorial.
Crochet Skills Used
- A simple pattern which uses UK treble crochet, double crochet and chains.
- Knowledge of how to crochet a Granny Square – including working in rounds.
- Changing colours after a round.
- Knowledge of basic crochet stitches, techniques and terminology is assumed.
Crochet Abbreviations
This pattern is written in UK terms.
- ss – slip stitch
- tr – treble crochet
- dc – double crochet
- ch – chain
- beg-ch – beginning chain
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- sp(s) – space(s)
- treble cluster – 3 treble crochet stitches worked in the same stitch or space
- […] – repeat pattern stated number of times
- (…) – important notes
- RS – right side
- WS – wrong side
Materials
Yarn: The yarn used for this project was Paintbox Simply Aran (100% Acrylic).
The colours used were: Washed Teal (232), Sea Foam Blue (231), Pistachio Green (224) and Banana Cream (220) (1 skein of each).
Hook: 5mm or appropriate hook for yarn and tension.
Finished Size
The final blanket size is 72cm x 72cm, you could make this bigger but you would need more yarn as this fully used up the 4 skeins.
Instructions for the Green Heart Baby Granny Square
Follow the instructions for the Heart Granny Square pattern and tutorial here – following instructions for the narrow heart.
Start in the middle with the heart in Pistachio Green (yarn A). Then Banana Cream (yarn B) around the heart. On completing round 4, do not fasten off Banana Cream, turn the square over and work a 5th round with Banana Cream.
Continue with adding rounds of the Granny Square as follows:
- Rounds 6-7: Washed Teal
- Rounds 8-9: Sea Foam Blue
- Rounds 10-11: Pistachio Green
- Rounds 12-13: Banana Cream
- Rounds 14-15: Washed Teal
- Rounds 16-17: Sea Foam Blue
- Rounds 18-19: Pistachio Green
- Rounds 20-21: Banana Cream
- Rounds 22-23: Washed Teal
- Rounds 24-25: Sea Foam Blue
- Rounds 26-27: Pistachio Green
- Rounds 28 (1 round only): Banana Cream
Border for the Green Heart Granny Square Baby Blanket
The border is a really simple edging using Sea Foam blue – Double Crochet (UK) chain two and Double Crochet (UK) into same stitch – see instructions below.
- Using Sea Foam Blue and with RS facing, pull up a loop in any corner sp. Ch2 (counts as 1dc), 1dc into same sp.
- *Skip 1 st, [1dc, ch2, 1dc]* in the next st, repeat from * to * until the next corner sp.
- 3dc in the corner sp.
- Continue with [1dc, ch2, 1dc] around the blanket, working 3dc in each corner sp.
- When you reach the corner sp where you started, work 1dc and ss into the top of the beg-ch2.
- Fasten off.
