Diamond Stitch Crochet Baby Blanket | Pattern Review

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One of my favourite things to crochet are baby blankets. Here is a pattern review of the diamond stitch crochet baby blanket.

As soon as I hear that someone is expecting, my plan is almost always to make a baby blanket for them. I’ve seen this baby blanket and have always wanted to try it.

The diamond stitch crochet baby blanket is a free crochet pattern found here. It offers easy-to-follow directions. and can be resized easily as long as you follow the ratio of 10 plus 7 as indicated.

The gender is not known on the recipient of this baby blanket so I thought it best to make it plain white. I believe that any solid colour would show off the diamond pattern nicely.

Weight of Yarn to Use

This crochet pattern can be made in any weight yarn. The white yarn I had in my stash was quite a heavyweight – category 6. So the diamond stitch is perfect as the thickness of the yarn would be countered by the laciness of the pattern. It would not be too heavy and warm. It would look equally beautiful in a category 5 or 4 weight yarn as well.

How I Adjusted the Size

Depending on the weight of the yarn that you use, you’ll want to make sure you adjust the math accordingly. As mentioned, the ratio is 10 plus 7. I started off with my beginning chain to be around that length and then I make sure it fits the 10 plus 7 ratio. A little less than your desired width would be fine as I intended to add a small border.

Diamond Stitch Crochet Pattern Review

The pattern is easy to follow. Once you have the gist of it, you might not need to follow the instructions. You just keep going until you reach the desired length and the diamonds are complete.

For those of you who prefer charts, a crochet chart of the diamond stitch is also provided.

Despite the name, it is not really a diamond stitch, but crochet stitches to make a diamond pattern. That said, it only uses double crochet stitches and chain stitches, making this a very easy pattern to make.

This would be perfect for a reasonably confident beginner. Just be sure to count your stitches at the end of each row. As it is such a distinct pattern, an error can be quite noticeable. However, since you are building the diamonds up, if there is an error in your previous row, you will notice it when you are crocheting as it doesn’t quite line up. It’s good, every few rows to lay it out and step back and take a look at it. Make sure all the diamonds look right. I did that a few times.

Adding a Border

I didn’t want to take away from the lovely diamond pattern so I did a simple border. I started out with a foundation row. The foundation row I do on almost all of my baby blankets is just a row of single crochet stitches all around.

Here’s a video demonstrating the foundation row on a C2C crochet project. The concept is the same.

To single crochet the top and bottom ends is easy – you just do it on top of the double crochet stitches, as well as in the chain stitch. On the sides, I did 2 single crochet stitches in each double crochet – this is working perpendicular to the stitches.

After that, I simply did a round of double crochet stitches. My baby blanket turned out bigger than expected and so I left it at that. If you feel you want your blanket to be bigger, just add a few more rounds of your border.

My finished size was 55 x 40. Perhaps a little on the big side, but perfect for the crib.

The heavier-weight yarn produced a lovely, fluffy blanket. I’m quite pleased without it turned out.

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