Cozy Double Crochet Spike Stitch Baby Blanket

Make a super cozy baby blanket that little ones can take with them through the toddler years into early childhood! The cozy double crochet spike stitch baby blanket is a one-row repeat pattern, ideal for beginner crocheters looking to work up a baby shower gift in a jiffy.

All you need to know are basic double crochet stitches. Insert your hook beneath dcs and you’ll master the dc spike stitch, giving your blanket a lovely woven texture.

This is a nice neutral option! Great for baby showers where the parents aren’t sharing or finding out the gender ahead of time. It’s such a nice color combination and, due to its larger size, could even serve as a small throw blanket draped over that living room couch!

This blanket is one of two I made for a set of twins. The other blanket is an SC spike stitch baby blanket with shades of green included in the design.

I love how the stitches in these two blankets complement one another!

The SC Spike Stitch Baby Blanket has a tighter weave. You can learn more about that stitch and get the baby blanket pattern here.

Abbreviations (US)

• ch(s): chain(s)
• dc(s): double crochet(s)
• pm: place marker in the stitch you just created (unless otherwise indicated)
• rep: repeat
• rnd: round
• sc(s): single crochet(s)
• sl st(s): slip stitch(es)
• sp(s): space(s)
• st(s): stitch(es)

Special Stitch

dc spike st: Yo, insert your hook into the stitch below the next st. Pull up a loop to the height of the working row. Yo and pull through the first two loops. Yo and pull through the remaining two loops to complete the dc.

In this example, we’ve worked a dc in the first st. Now we will work a dc spike st beneath the next st, into the starting ch.

Yo.

Insert your hook below the next dc, into the starting ch.

Pull up a loop to the height of the working row.

Yo, pull through the first two loops on your hook.

Yo, pull through both loops.

Dc in the next st.

Dc spike st in the next st.

Here is a completed row in pattern.

Here is what the spike st looks like in row 2. First, we’ll dc in the first st. The arrows indicate where our dc spike sts will go in this row.

Dc spike st in the next st.

Dc in the next st, dc spike st in the next st.

The completed row.

Here are two more rows in pattern so you can see the lovely effect!

Materials

• Lion Brand Hometown Yarn Weight 6 Super Bulky (100% Acrylic, 81yd/74m, 5oz/142g):
  • Color A: 1 Skein Houston Cream
  • Color C, border color: 5 Skeins Catskills Corner
  • Color D: 1 Skein Highland Park Beige
  • Color F: 1 Skein Cocoa Beach
  • Color H: 1 Skein Stowe Sugar Maple
  • Color I: 1 Skein South Dakota Black
• Lion Brand Hometown Yarn Prints Weight 6 Super Bulky (100% Acrylic, 64yd/59m, 4oz/113g):
  • Color B: 1 Skein Aspen Tweed
  • Color E: 1 Skein Bellefontaine Concrete
  • Color G: 1 Skein Huntington Foliage
• Size P/11.5mm crochet hook
• Scissors
• Stitch markers
• Tapestry needle for weaving in ends

Finished Size

Before border: 44″ x 32″ | With border: 50″ x 38″

Gauge

6 sts x 5 rows = 4″

Notes

You can get an ads-free, easy-to-print PDF of this pattern over at Ravelry, Etsy, or Lion Brand!

This blanket is larger than a typical baby blanket. If you’d like to adjust to a more traditional size, I’d suggest the following:

• Begin with a starting ch of 44. This should result in a width of 28” before the border, 34” with border.
• Eliminate 1-2 yarn colors. You’ll end up with a truer ombre if you omit the bold orange and black skeins (Stowe Sugar Maple and South Dakota Black), for example.
• You could also try sizing down to a size N/9mm crochet hook, which is what the yarn label suggests. 

The super bulky weight yarn tends to stretch as you work, and the project gets heavier and heavier as you go! Just something to be aware of.

Color changes happen whenever the current yarn color runs out, so more often than not in the middle of rows. If you’d prefer to change colors at the end of rows, you will end up with a shorter blanket. Also, the prints colors are slightly smaller skeins.

To adjust the width of the blanket, ch any even number.

Alternating DC Spike Stitch Baby Blanket Pattern

Ch 66.

Row 1: First 2 chs do not count as a st. Dc in the 3rd ch from hook and in each st across. <64 sts here and throughout.> Ch 1 and turn.

Row 2: Dc in the first st, dc spike into the same ch used by the next st. *Dc in the next st, dc spike st beneath the next st; rep from * until there are 2 sts left in the row. Dc in the last 2 sts. Ch 1 and turn.

Row 3: *Dc in the next st, dc spike st worked into st below next st; rep from * until there are 2 sts left in the row. Dc in the last 2 sts. Ch 1 and turn.

Rows 4-40: Rep Row 3, changing colors in A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I order.

Cut yarn, fasten off, and weave in ends.

Border

The border requires an odd number of stitches along each of the four sides of the blanket in Rnd 1. Either follow my suggested stitch counts, or otherwise ensure you have an odd number for the most polished foundation.

Rnd 1: Using color C, pull up a loop of yarn in the upper righthand corner. Ch 1, sc in the same st. [Sc in each st across, increasing once somewhere in the middle. In the corner, work (sc, ch 1, pm, sc). As you work along the side, work 1 sc in each row end, increasing 7 times, about every 6 stitches. In the corner, work (sc, ch 1, pm, sc)] twice. When you reach your starting corner, work (sc, ch 1, pm, sl st to the first sc). <Not including marked corners, you should have 65 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 47 sts along the sides.>

Rnd 2: Ch 2, dc back into the marked ch-1 sp (this keeps your seam in the corner). [Dc in each st across. In the ch-1 corner sp, work (dc, ch 1, pm, dc)] four times. When you reach your starting corner, work (dc, ch 1, pm, sl st to the first dc). <Not including marked corners, you should have 67 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 49 sts along the sides.>

Rnd 3: Ch 2, dc back into the marked ch-1 sp. [*Dc spike st beneath the next st, dc in the next st; rep from * until there is 1 st left in the row. Dc spike st beneath the last st. In the ch-1 corner sp, work (dc, ch 1, pm, dc)] four times. When you reach the starting corner, work (dc, ch 1, pm, sl st to the first dc). <Not including marked corners, you should have 69 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 51 sts along the sides.>

Rnd 4: Rep Rnd 3. <Not including marked corners, you should have 71 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 53 sts along the sides.>

Cut yarn, fasten off, and weave in ends.

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