How to Crochet an Easy Gingham Pattern

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Since a family friend was having a baby girl, I decided that crochet a pink blanket and came up with this easy gingham pattern. I decided to use double crochet stitches (DC’s) since they are easy and are quick. Also, since they are a big stitch, the blanket works up fairly quickly.

Gingham is a lovely-looking, fresh pattern that goes so well with so many things. I’ve used for a sweater for our pup and I’ve even made it into a blanket using the C2C crochet technique. You can read all about that here. While the C2C way looks nice, I wanted to find a quicker way to crochet an easy gingham pattern. I found myself making a baby blanket and I wanted to work one up quicker than using the C2C method. I also wanted a way that had few ends to weave in. My only dread about C2C is all those ends! There must be an easy gingham pattern that didn’t result in having so many ends to weave in!

Be sure to check out this blog post to learn more about that pattern involved in gingham. Check that out here. Gingham involves 3 different colours – a light and a dark of the same colour, as well as a neutral.

For this baby blanket, I used sport weight yarn which is a category 3 yarn. This is a little thinner and finer than what I’m used to. Typically I use category 4 weight yarn so this was a little different for me. For this pattern, I used approximately 80g of white, 225g of light pink and 175g of dark pink (which I also used for the border). With this yarn, I used a 3.75mm crochet hook.

How to Crochet an Easy Gingham Pattern Baby Blanket

I like even numbers so I created 10 blocks across. To start, chain 102. The extra 2 chains are to accommodate the turn and are equivalent to the height of one DC. I am a loose crocheter and so I use 2 chains. Some people prefer to use 3 chains – it’s just a matter of personal preference. If you want a wider blanket, simply chain 10 more stitches per block of colour. I prefer that the first block and the last block of colour match and so I did an even number of sets of 10. Feel free to play around with it until you get the desired look you want.

Using the chain as a base, DC 10 of the neutral colour (in my case white) and then 10 of the lighter shade (in my case, light pink). Carry the yarn with you as you crochet along and that way you won’t have all those ends to deal with. Once you get to the end of the row, chain 2 (or chain 3 if you prefer) and turn. Continue using DC’s across, matching the colours of the previous row. I continued along until I made square blocks – for me, this means 8 rows. This may vary depending on the thickness of yarn you use, as well as how loose or tight your crochet.

For the second set of colour changes, I switched from the neutral to the dark shade (so for me, from white to dark pink) and kept the lighter shade (the light pink) but now the light pink is offset by a block (so you’re not building the same colour on top). I continued along with the same pattern – 10DCs for each colour and then 8 rows.

Keep alternating until you reach your desired size. I personally prefer to end with the same colour pattern that I started with and so I did 7 bands of colour, for a total of 56 rows. This resulted in a nicely sized rectangular blanket. I could have done 2 more bands of colour to make a more square blanket. Keep going as long as want to make the desired size you want.

One of the great things about this pattern is that if you carry your yarn, you’ll have hardly any ends to weave in. You’ll only have the 3 different colours at the end to weave in – that’s it! If you don’t know how to carry yarn, I made this short little video tutorial to show you.

For my border, I used the darker shade. The reason why I chose that colour was that I had carried it up the side of the blanket and this way, it hid that fact! Before starting the actual border pattern, I did a simple SC around to act as a foundation using the darker shade. On the sides, I did 2SCc’s for each DC. Once I had that, I chose a simple scallop border consisting of 7 DCs. I finished it off with a simple SC in the neutral colour on top of the scallop border, all the way around. For a video on how to do this border, as well as some other border ideas, check out this video I made.

I really like how this easy gingham pattern turned out for this baby blanket. The sport weight yarn took me longer than I thought – mainly because it’s a finer, thinner yarn. It works up nicely in DCs – offering nice coverage, yet still keeping the baby blanket lightweight.

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