How to Make Baby Blankets

A close-up image of a baby-sized quilt, made of squares of scrap fabric. In this image, the fabric squares are blue with cartoon sharks, blue and grey plaid, solid tan, teal with roosters, solid grey, and some blurry dinosaurs on navy in the background. The quilt is bound with blue yarn ties.

Ah, baby blankets. The perfect project to:

Practice a new skill
Decompress after a tricky project
Work on during your 1001 Zoom meetings
Bust through your stash of yarn
Bust through your stash of scrap fabric (AKA cabbage)
Give away to friends and family
Donate to charities

A blue crochet blanket shaped a little bit like an hourglass, but not intentionally.

I love making baby blankets. They're small (standard size is usually around 3 ft x 3 ft), they're quick, you get to use all the best yarns and fabrics, and when you're finished, you get to give it away so it's not taking up space in your house. In fact, my first crochet project ever was a baby blanket. BEHOLD:

It's terrible and I love it. Notice the beautiful, unplanned hourglass shape. See the clear tension issues between the beginning and end of the project. Feast your eyes on the center row of dc ch 1 that looks like they somehow turned into treble crochets. Fantastic.

I love making baby blankets so much and have made so many that I somehow don't even have pictures of them all! I love them for all of the bullet point reasons I listed at the top of this post and I can't take pictures of them anymore because I've given them all away. Between big projects, I'll whip up one or two and squirrel them away so that any time I hear of someone having a child, I have a gift waiting in the wings.

In the interest of encouraging others to try new things and grow their skills, I'm including not one but THREE tutorials below: one crochet, one knit, and one sewn. If you both knit and crochet, yes, the sections are very similar because so are the concepts. The sewn blanket is also my first quilt ever (remember how I said these are great for trying something new?). Enjoy!

Important Note: This post was originally very long and came in the 3 parts described above. This makes it difficult to navigate, especially if you're looking for the project all the way at the bottom and extra especially if you're on a phone. Use the buttons below to go to the 3 posts, now separated for ease of reading.

How to Crochet Baby Blankets

How to Knit Baby Blankets

How to Quilt a Baby Blanket

Originally published November 20, 2020.

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