Experiment with stitches and color while creating this vibrant baby blanket! This blanket is knit in strips, making it a great portable project. The construction allows you to create a multicolor blanket while using just one color in each row for a bright and fun patchwork babyghan.

This pattern is available for FREE on my blog here.

The free version is supported by advertising on my website. The downloadable PDF for sale on Ravelry includes the full pattern in one printable file without advertisements.

Skills Used
Basic knitting skills: cast on, knit, purl, slip stitch, bind off
Knitting flat in rows
Changing colors
Seaming with mattress stitch (with photo tutorial linked in pattern)

Skill Level
Easy

Finished Size
Baby Blanket: 30.5” (77.5 cm) long x 29” (73.5 cm) wide after blocking.

Materials
Knit Picks Comfy Worsted yarn (75% Pima cotton, 25% acrylic, 1.75 oz/50 g, 109 yd/100 m) – 3 skeins in 5167 Marina (CA) and 2 skeins each in 8990 Crème Brulee (CB), 6315 Peapod (CC), 8126 Vinca (CD), and 3287 Zinnia (CE), or approximately 230 yd (210.5) in CA and 175 yd (160 m) each in CB, CC, CD, and CE in any medium weight yarn.

US Size 6/4 mm straight knitting needles, or any size needed to obtain correct gauge.

Yarn needle.

Gauge
17 sts x 24 rows in stockinette stitch = 4” (10 cm) before blocking. Exact gauge is not critical for this project.

This pattern was originally published in the June, 2015 issue of I Like Knitting magazine.