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Pattern for: Spring into Bloom blanket – a beautiful crochet blanket made from squares.

Yarn used: Heatherly Sport and Brava Sport: these two yarns mix beautifully to create a natural and earthy collection of colours.

Difficulty level: Intermediate – with lots of interesting stitches and texture.

Stitches used: post stitches, clusters and trebles sit side by side with the basic stitches.

Hannah’s Notes: I am delighted to present the Spring Into Bloom Blanket featuring a feast of stitches, colour and creativity for you! This beautiful crochet blanket is made from 3 different sized square motifs that you can join together in so many different layouts.

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The really exciting thing about this crochet blanket is that I’ve designed it so that the squares can tesselate perfectly to form the main body before adding the final border. There are 3 different sized textured crochet squares, which you can arrange in any way you like to create your rectangular (or even square) blanket.

Plus, it’s a great stash buster too! Use your scrap yarn to create a truly unique crochet blanket, full of meaning and memories! Check out my other stash buster crochet patterns for more inspiration.

In this post you’ll find everything you need to know how to make this unique crochet blanket, including materials, stitches, a detailed video tutorial and free written pattern for blog subscribers.

With so much texture and amazing colour options, I’m sure you’re going to love creating your own Spring into Bloom blanket!

The Pick And Mix Blanket Crochet Along

I’m so excited to share that this blanket is part of a wonderful collaboration between myself and Veronika of Blue Star Crochet. Together we are running the Pick And Mix crochet along.

Come and join us, if you haven’t already signed up to the Pick And Mix Crochet Along. We start on 7th April 2025! Once you’ve signed up, you’ll receive the supply list with discount code direct to your inbox!

Veronika and I have created two stunning blankets perfect for spring but there’s a twist….

We want you to use our motifs to create your very own masterpiece!

Pick and Mix your squares to crochet any shape or size of blanket you like with all the support you could need.

Each part of my pattern will be released here on this blog on the dates set out below, so be sure to bookmark this page, so you can come back to it for the next section! Blue Star Crochet’s blanket will be on her blog on the same dates.

Mon7th AprilSmall Square
Mon14th AprilMedium Square
Mon21st AprilLarge Square
Mon28th AprilAssembly and Border

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Yarn

To make this crochet squares blanket pattern, I used both Heatherly Sport, which is 80% acrylic, 20% Merino Wool, (328yds/300m/100g); and Brava Sport, which is 100% premium acrylic, (340yds/310m/100g).

I wanted my blanket to have a natural and earthy collection of colours that celebrate all things that spring has to promise for us. 

Brava Sport and Heatherly Sport mix beautifully together so you can easily mix any shades!

The colours I used were Sweetheart (A), Peach Fuzz (B), Sweet Bing (C), Key Lime (D) and Bedtime (E) in Heatherly Sport, and Clarity (F), Almond (G), Brindle (H) and Sienna (I) in Brava Sport.

They are both category 2, sport weight yarns, which gives the blanket a really lovely drape. Check our handy yarn weight chart and guide to find out more about yarn weights and categories.

The beauty of motif blankets though is that you can pretty much use any yarn and hook to create your very own masterpiece! By changing to a thicker/thinner yarn and larger/smaller hook sizes you can make your blanket perfect for you. 

Using different yarn for a project can often be challenging but is super easy for this project!

Yarn Substitutes

Here are some lovely yarns that I think would work brilliantly!:

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Things you’ll love about this unique crochet blanket pattern

  • Mindful and calming: The perfect mindful project to relax with.
  • Customisable: Make your blanket unique with a myriad of layout possibilities and colour combinations.
  • Heirloom-worthy design: Beautiful detail with a timeless, classic style.

Getting Started: Materials Needed for Your Vintage Crochet Blanket

Sizing

The finished blanket measures 38″ by 50″ but you can adjust to lots of different sizes.

Nine skeins of yarn in various colors stacked in a 3x3 grid on a white surface. Two crocheted squares and a green plant are visible in the background.

How much yarn do I need to crochet this motif blanket?

As I mentioned before, there are so many options for yarn and colour choices for your blanket, but if you want to make it the same as mine, this is what you’re going to need.

You will require approximately 275 metres, 300 yards of each of the following colours: Sweetheart (A), Peach Fuzz (B), Sweet Bing (C), Key Lime (D), Bedtime (E), and Clarity (F). This is 1 ball each of the recommended yarn.

You will also need 550 metres, 600 yards of Almond (G) (2 balls); and 510 metres, 560 yards of each of Brindle (H) and Sienna (I). That’s 2 balls of each of these colours too.

In total for the blanket, this is 3220 metres, 3520 yards.

This beautiful crochet blanket, adorned with multicolored square patterns in shades of brown, blue, pink, and green, rests gracefully on a white bed.

Other Materials

Along with your yarn, you will need the following:

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Step by Step Video Tutorial

Come along as I crochet the squares for this unique crochet blanket and see just how easy it is in our step-by-step video tutorial.

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Crochet Terms You’ll Need to Know

Glossary and Abbreviations

blo – back loop only

ch(s) – chain(s)

ch-sp(s) – chain space(s)

rep – repeat

sp – space

ss/sl st – slip stitch

st(s) – stitch(es)

Yoh – yarn over hook

Special Stitches

The pattern is written in standard US terms and uses the following crochet stitches:

Slip Stitch (ss)

Insert the hook into the next stitch, yarn over, and pull through the stitch and the active loop on the hook.

Single Crochet (sc)

This stitch is the equivalent to a UK double crochet (dc).

  • Insert the hook into the next stitch.
  • Yarn over and pull up a loop.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through both loops on the hook.

Half Double Crochet (hdc)

This stitch is the equivalent to a UK half treble crochet (htr).

  • Yarn over, and insert the hook into the next stitch.
  • Yarn over and pull up a loop.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through all three loops on the hook.

Front Post Stitches (FP)

Work your stitch as usual, but insert the hook around the post of the stitch of the previous round/indicated round rather than the top of the stitch as you would normally.

Double Crochet (dc)

This stitch is the equivalent to a UK treble crochet (tr).

  • Yarn over and insert the hook into the next stitch.
  • Yarn over and pull up a loop.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through two loops on the hook.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through remaining two loops on the hook.

Treble Crochet (tr)

This stitch is the equivalent to a UK double treble crochet (dtr).

  • Yarn over twice, and insert the hook into the next stitch.
  • Yarn over and pull up a loop.
  • (Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through two loops on the hook), twice.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through remaining loops on the hook.

3 double crochet cluster stitch (3dc-Cl)

This stitch is the equivalent to a UK 3 treble crochet cluster (3tr-Cl)

  • Yarn over, and insert the hook into the next stitch.
  • Yarn over and pull up a loop.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through two loops on the hook, rep from Step 1 two more times in same stitch.
  • Yarn over again, and pull the yarn through all loops on the hook.
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Making Your Crochet Blanket Perfect For You

One of the beauties of this blanket is how versatile it can be.

In my version, I made 22 small squares, 2 medium squares and 2 large squares. You can arrange these in any way you like, although I share my version below. You can of course also mix it up and make a different number of each square and create a completely new version!

CHANGING THE SIZE

The blanket is designed so that the squares can tesselate perfectly to form the main body before adding the final border. If you’d like to change the size of your blanket, here are a few ideas of how you can do it:

Change the Yarn Weight: Changing the weight of yarn that you use and then following the pattern exactly will easily adjust the size of your blanket. When you work your first small square for your gauge swatch take the measurements and compare them to the ones in the pattern. If you are happy with the drape of your swatch (you may need a larger or smaller hook to suit your yarn weight) then you are good to go.

You can calculate the size that your blanket will be by adding your small square measurements together in the layout you’d like.

Make More/Less Squares: The world really is your oyster here! You can make as many of each size of square as you like to give yourself any size (square or rectangle) or combination of blanket that you want.

You just need to make sure to plan out your squares first remembering that your proportions are in thirds. You will fit 3 small or 1 medium and 1 small along the side of a large for example.

Change the Border: A really simple way to change your blanket is to work a much deeper border for it. This can just be by continuing to repeat the border instructions as they are written or how about trying something else?

You could work the border until it has enough stitches that are a multiple of 24 (the number of stitches along the small square side). Then you could make more small squares to add around the edge of the entire blanket. This would be amazing in block colours to really make them pop!

Get Creative!

The best thing about blankets that are made in motifs like this is that you can pick and choose the parts that you want to use!

You could even find other crochet squares that use the same stitch count on each edge of 24 (small), 48 (medium) and 72 (large) and mix those into your blanket too!

What will you choose to do? I can’t wait to see!

Blanket Construction

The blanket is designed using 3 different sized square motifs:
small (6″), medium (12″) and large (18″).

These are joined together to form the body of the blanket and a simple border is then added to the entire blanket to finish.

Below is the layout that I used but there are so many other options using the squares if you’d like to try something different!

Diagram illustrating a beautiful crochet blanket pattern with a grid layout for 1 large, 2 medium, and 2 large squares, labeled with numbers 1 to 22. Overall dimensions are 50" by 38".

Before you jump into crocheting your blanket squares, take a moment to read through the pattern notes—it’s a game-changer!

These handy insights will not only simplify your pattern-reading journey but also ensure a smoother crochet experience. You’ll find helpful tips on deciphering the sizing, customisation and more.

Trust me, a quick peek at these notes will set you up for crochet success!

  • Ch1 at the beginning of the round does not count as a stitch.
  • When a stitch is worked into a stitch on a round/s below then the corresponding st of the round is skipped and does not need working into.
  • You can work into the actual chains throughout the pattern as I do if desired or into the chain spaces.
  • At the beginning of a round where it states e.g. FPdc in next st, for the first time of working work in the st that you are already in at the beginning of the round. On the repeat of the instruction work into the next st.
  • The pattern is worked in rounds.
  • Read through the entire pattern before beginning.
  • Make sure that you are familiar with all of the stitches in the abbreviations list before you begin.
  • Stitch counts are given in [ ] at the end of each round. If no stitch count is given, then the count is the same as the previous Round.
  • Colour changes are indicated below should you wish to replicate my sequence.
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Pattern Gauge

Gauge: Each Small Square Motif measures 6″ by 6″

To make the swatch you’ll need to crochet Rounds 1-9 of the Small Square Motif.

Adjust your hook size to get your swatch as close to the gauge measurements as you can.

Making a crochet gauge swatch is particularly important when crocheting projects (and even more so for garments) to ensure that it ends up the desired size.

COLOUR CHANGES

Here are the details of colour changes used throughout the blanket. You can of course change colours wherever you like though!

KEY –  A: Sweetheart, B: Peach Fuzz, C: Sweet Bing, D: Key Lime, E: Bedtime, F: Clarity, G: Almond, H: Brindle, I: Sienna

For each square the sequence of letters will tell you which colour to use for each round. See above for the layout.

Small Squares

SQUARE 1: B, B, B, B, C, H, C, C, I

SQUARE 2: C, C, C, C, A, H, A, A, I

SQUARE 3: A, A, A, A, B, H, B, B, I

SQUARE 4: B, B, B, B, A, H, A, A, I

SQUARE 5: C, C, C, C, B, H, B, B I

SQUARE 6: A, A, A, A, C, H, C, C, I

SQUARE 7: D, D, D, D, F, H, F, F, I

SQUARE 8: F, F, F, F, E, H, E, E, I

SQUARE 9: F, F, F, F, D, H, D, D, I

SQUARE 10: E, E, E, E, F, H, F, F, I

SQUARE 11: D, D, D, D, E, H, E, E, I

SQUARE 12: E, E, E, E, D H, D, D, I

SQUARE 13: E, E, E, E, D, H, E, G, I

SQUARE 14: F, F, F, F, D, H, F, G, I

SQUARE 15: D, D, D, D, E, H, D, G, I

SQUARE 16: F, F, F, F, E, H, F, G, I

SQUARE 17: E, E, E, E, F, H, E, G, I

SQUARE 18: C, C, C, C, B, H, C, G, I

SQUARE 19: B, B, B, B, A, H, B, G, I

SQUARE 20: A, A, A, A, C, H, A, G, I

SQUARE 21: B, B, B, B, C, H, B, G, I

SQUARE 22: C, C, C, C, A, H, C, G, I

Medium Squares

SQUARE 1: G, G, G, G, E, H, G, H, I, E, F, E, F, G, H, H, I, H, G, E, I

SQUARE 2: G, G, G, G, A, H, G, H, I, A, C, A, C, G, H, H, I, H, G, A, I

Large Squares

SQUARE 1: B, B, B, B, A, H, A, G, I, A, A, A, B, G, H, H, I, H, B, B, I, A, B, A, H, G, G, H, H, I, I

SQUARE 2: D, D, D, D, E, H, E, G, I, E, E, E, D, G, H, H, I, H, F, F, I, F, E, F, H, G, G, H, H, I, I

Joining and Border

JOINING: USE G THROUGHOUT

BORDER: USE G THROUGHOUT

PATTERN

SMALL SQUARE

Make 22 (6″ by 6″ each)

The written pattern will assume that you will follow the colour changes but feel free to change and work as you would like.

Any instructions that state to break yarn at the end of a round do so because we rejoin in a different place to begin the next round.

If no such instruction is written then you can change colour on the last yarn over and pull through of the last st of the round before slip stitching in the first stitch to join.

Make a Magic Ring.

Round 1: 12dc into Magic Ring, ss in 1st st to join. [12dc]

Round 2: ch1, *3dc-Cl in each of the next 3 sts, ch3; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join [12 x 3dc-Cl, 4x 3ch-sps]

Round 3: ss in between 1st and 2nd 3dc-Cl, ch1, 3dc-Cl in same place, 3dc-Cl between next two 3dc-Cl, ch1, (2dc, ch3, 2dc) in ch3-sp, ch1, *(3dc-Cl in between next two 3dc-Cl) twice, ch1, (2dc, ch3, 2dc) in ch3-sp, ch1; rep from * 2 more times, ss in 1st st to join [8 x 3dc-Cl, 16dc, 8 x ch1-sp, 4 x ch3-sp]

Round 4: ss in between 1st and 2nd 3dc-Cl, ch1, *3dc-Cl in between next two 3dc-Cl stitches, ch1, dc in next 2sts, ch1, skip next st, (2dc, ch3, 2dc) in ch3-sp, ch1, skip next st, dc in next 2sts, ch1; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join [4 x 3dc-Cl, 32dc, 16 x ch1-sp, 4 x ch3-sp]. Break yarn.

Round 5: Join yarn to any ch3-sp, ch1, *3hdc in ch3-sp, hdc in next 2sts, ch1, skip next st, FPdc in next 2sts, ch3, skip (ch1, 3dc-Cl, ch1), FPdc in next 2sts, ch1, skip next st, hdc in next 2sts; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join [16FPdc, 28hdc, 8 x ch1-sp, 4 x ch3-sp]

Round 6: ch1, *hdc in next st, (hdc, ch1, hdc) in next st, hdc in next 3sts, FPtr around st below in Round 3, FPdc in next 2sts, 3hdc in ch3-sp, FPdc in next 2sts, FPtr around st below in Round 3, hdc in next 2sts; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join [8FPtr, 16FPdc, 44hdc, 4 x ch1-sp] Break yarn.

Round 7: join to any corner ch1-sp, ch1, *3dc-Cl in ch1-sp, ch2, skip next st, dc in next 3sts, FPdc in next 2sts, ch2, skip next 2sts, 3dc-Cl in next st, ch2, skip next 2sts, FPdc in next 2sts, dc in next 3sts, ch2, skip next st; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join. [20sts each side: 8 x 3dc-Cl, 16FPdc, 24dc, 16 x ch2-sp]

Round 8: ch1, *(hdc, ch2, hdc) in 3dc-Cl, 3dc-Cl in next ch2-sp, ch1, hdc in next 15sts, ch1, 3dc-Cl in next ch2-sp; rep from * around, ss in 1st st to join [23sts each side: 8 x 3dc-Cl, 68hdc, 4 x ch2-sp, 8 x ch1-sp]

Round 9: ch1, sc in same st, *3sc in next ch2-sp, sc in next 21sts; rep from * two more times, 3sc in next ch2-sp, sc in next 20sts, ss in 1st to join [24sts each side: 96sc] Break yarn.

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