Learn to crochet a textural, cabled baby blanket with gorgeous ombre color changes and amazing softness! The Misty Dawn Crochet Baby Blanket pattern is an easy-to-memorize four-row repeat with enough variety in stitches to really keep things interesting!
I love the texture of crocheted cables, and these thin cables are super easy to learn, even if you’ve never done cabling before.
The bobblet stitches, or mini bobbles, are subtle, but add a fun effect as well.
The waistcoat stitch is very popular right now for its knit-like appearance! In my opinion it looks nicest when worked in the round, so it is perfect for a blanket border!
The whole blanket comes together beautifully with that amazing ombre yarn!!
I hope you enjoy this pattern!
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Abbreviations (US)
- ch(s): chain(s)
- fpdc(s): front post double crochet(s)
- rep: repeat
- rnd: round
- rs: right side
- sc(s): single crochet(s)
- sk: skip
- sl st(s): slip stitch(es)
- st(s): stitch(es)
- ws: wrong side
Special Stitches
Bobblet: Insert your hook in st, yo, pull up a loop. You will have 2 loops on your hook. Ch 2. You will still have 2 loops on your hook. Yo and pull through both loops.
1. Insert your hook in st, yo, pull up a loop. You will have 2 loops on your hook.
2. Ch 2. You will still have 2 loops on your hook.
3. Yo and pull through both loops.
4. After working the next sc, the bobblet will puff out.
Waistcoat Stitch (also known as csc center single crochet): Insert your hook in the center of the v that makes up the body of the sc below. Yo and pull up a loop. You will have 2 loops on your hook. Yo and pull through both loops.
Here is a helpful YouTube Short showing the waistcoat stitch. Or, you can check out the step-by-step photos below.
1. Insert your hook in the center of the v that makes up the body of the sc below. Here is a pin showing exactly where that is on the front side.
2. Here is where that emerges on the back side, to the right of the upside-down v, and beneath three loops of yarn.
3. Here is what that looks like with the crochet hook, now.
4. Yo and pull up a loop. You will have 2 loops on your hook.
5. Yo and pull through both loops.
Materials
- Juniper Moon Farm Cumulus Rainbow Weight 4 Medium (94% Cotton, 6% Nylon, 251yds/229m, 3.52oz/100g) Misty Dawn 5 skeins
- I/9 5.5mm crochet hook
- Stitch markers
- Scissors
- Tapestry needle
Finished Size
32.5″ x 36.5″ with border | 29″ x 33″ before border
Gauge
11 sts x 15 rows in sc = 4″ x 4″
Notes
You can get an ads-free, easy-to-print PDF of this pattern over at Etsy or Ravelry!
I love memorizable crochet patterns, and the hardest part of this pattern to memorize, in my opinion, is working the bobblet stitches. For a simpler variation, you could replace those stitches with single crochets. Another trick? Put a stitch marker on the front of the blanket near the bobblet stitches as a reminder.
I’ve included traditional instructions for the pattern as well as shorthand in italics. Here are examples of what crochet shorthand looks like:
- Sc 1 means single crochet in the next stitch.
- Sc 2 means single crochet in the next two stitches.
- 2 sc means work two single crochets in the next stitch.
Turning ch never counts as a st.
To adjust the width of this blanket, ch a multiple of 14 + 13.
For another pattern featuring simple cables, check out my Crossed Towers Cable Baby Blanket. New newsletter subscribers can get a discounted copy of that pattern PDF when they sign up for my newsletter!
Thank you so much to Knitting Fever for generously providing the yarn for this pattern.
Misty Dawn Crochet Baby Blanket Pattern
Ch 83.
Row 1: (ws) Sc in the 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across, ch 1, turn. <82 scs>
Row 2: (rs) Sc in the first 5 sts, *fpdc in the next 2 sts, sk the 2 sc behind the fpdcs just worked, sc in the next 5 sts; rep from * across, ch 1, turn. <60 scs, 22 fpdcs>
Moving forward, always sk the sc sts behind post sts.
Row 3: (ws) Sc across, ch 1, turn. <82 scs>
Row 4 (rs): Sc in the first 2 sts, bobblet in the next st, sc in the next 2 sts, fpdc in the next 2 fpdcs from two rows back (called bars from here on out), sc in the next 2 sts, bobblet, sc in the next 2 sts, *sk 1 bar, fpdc in the next bar, fpdc in the skipped bar, sc in the next 2 sts, bobblet, sc in the next 2 sts, fpdc in the next 2 bars, sc in the next 2 sts, bobblet, sc in the next 2 sts; rep from * across, ch 1, turn. <6 straight cable pairs, 5 twisted cables, 48 scs, 12 bobblets>
Row 4 Shorthand: Sc 2, bobblet, sc 2, fpdc 2, sc 2, bobblet, sc 2, *sk 1, fpdc, fpdc in skipped bar, sc 2, bobblet, sc 2, fpdc 2, sc 2, bobblet, sc 2; rep from * across, ch 1, turn.
Row 5: (ws) Sc across, ch 1, turn. <82 scs>
Row 6: (rs) Sc in the first 5 sts, *fpdc in the next 2 bars, sc in the next 5 sts; rep from * across, ch 1, turn. <60 scs, 11 cable pairs>
Rows 7-123: Rep Rows 3-6. You’ll end on Row 3 of the rep.
Do not cut yarn. Continue in border pattern.
Waistcoat Stitch Border
Border is worked rs-facing. During Rnd 1, as you work along the sides of your blanket, aim to place about 3 sts for every 4 row-ends for a border that lies flat. To do this you could simply skip the bobblet rows.
Rnd 1: [Sc across, in the corner work (sc, ch 1, pm**, sc)] four times ending the final rep at **, sl st join. <Excluding marked corners, you should have 82 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 92 sts along the sides>
Rnd 2: Ch 1, sc back into the marked ch-1 corner sp, (working backwards in this way keeps our seam neatly in the corner), *waistcoat in each st across, in the corner work (sc, ch 1, pm**, sc); rep from * around the blanket, ending the final rep at **, sl st join. <Excluding marked corners, you should have 84 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 94 sts along the sides>
Rnds 3-7: Rep Rnd 2. <At the end of Rnd 7, excluding marked corners, you should have 94 sts across the top and bottom of the blanket, and 104 sts along the sides>
Cut yarn, fasten off, and weave in ends.
