If there is a new baby coming into your life, you need to make the Still River Baby Blanket. This comfy and cozy knit baby afghan is the perfect easy knitting pattern for the expectant mom, or first time grandma. Making your own knit baby blanket for baby is not only relaxing, but a memory that will stay with you for a lifetime. Because this blanket is so cuddly, it’s sure to be the one that baby claims as his or her favorite and will keep forever. And every time you see this cuddly knit blanket, you’ll smile. Don’t be surprised when “blankie” goes off with your suddenly very tall kid to college!
This pattern is a very versatile one that can be adapted to any gender, and really any size. Make it smaller by doing fewer increases. Make it bigger by doing more. Change colors to do stripes. You could even do one ball of five similar shades to give an ombre effect. The possibilities are endless with this super easy knit baby blanket; but one thing is for sure, your little one is going to cherish it forever.
MATERIALS:
- Lion Brand Hometown USA Yarn; Charlotte Blue; 5 balls.
- Circular needle size 13 (9 mm), 29 in. (73.5 cm) long or size needed to obtain gauge
- Tapestry needle
GAUGE:
10 sts = 4 in. (10 cm) in Garter st (k every row).
NOTES:
Circular needle is used to accommodate large number of stitches. Work back and forth in rows as if knitting with straight needles.
BLANKET
Cast on 5 sts.
Row 1: Knit.
Row 2: K3, yo, k2.
Row 3: K3, yo, k3.
Row 4: K3, yo, k to end of row.
Rep last row until you have 90 sts on needle.
Next (decrease) row: K2, k2tog, yo, k2tog, k to end of row.
Rep last row until 5 sts remain. Bind off.
FINISHING
Weave in ends.
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Blankets and bed dolls for Momma. Patterns are hard to find for the bed dolls. I am looking for patterns for bed dolls that fit 11.5 fashion dolls and as I am now retired, I would love to find them free. Thanks
How is a “comfy and cozy crochet baby afghan” an “easy knitting pattern”?
It is a corner to corner pattern like they use for pot holders or dishcloths. Try it, you will be surprised.
If I wanted to make this bigger how many stitches would I start with?
same stitches just keep going until have desired stitches- 100.120. or more
Sandra, you will always start with the same amount of stitches on this pattern. Every yo (yarn over) you do increases the number on your needles. Then once you’ve gotten the size you want, then your decrease.
Please give what the size would be using 5 ball of yarn.
how can a person make this blanket with only 5 cast on stitches? i don’t understand this at all
Every yarn over is an increase in addition to creating the border. Try it,
starting in the corner and increasing each row
It’s like making a giant washcloth on the diagonal. I’m a guy, and I can do it 🙂 Give it a try!
It’s super easy and fun (and I’m NOT an accomplished knitter!). You see progress quickly because you start with 5 stitches (it’s a corner). It’s easy to follow the simple pattern. I’ve made several of them and everyone loves them.
I use this same pattern to make dishcloths when I just want something simple to make.
Nancy, when you cast on the five stitches and knit them the next row is a yarn over. This increases the stitches at the start of each new row. The blanket is knitted in a diamond shape. You can keep making it larger than what the pattern calls for by just continuing to do yarn overs. Then when it is as large as you want it you start to decrease until only five stitches remain.
This is an incomplete pattern and makes no sense whatsoever. Once you get your 90 stitches how many rows do you actually knit? Sorry I’ve been knitting a long time and this makes no sense at all!
it would be 85 rows. You are starting with 5 in a corner of the afghan. you are adding a stitch each row. when you have 90 stitches, you have knitted 85 rows. (90-5=85)
I haven’t been knitting for that long and it makes total sense to me. Once you start knitting the pattern you’ll understand as you follow the pattern.
It may not sound right but I also have been knitting for a long time too. What is there not to understand.
As with all patterns I have always thought you must try it out first before saying the above.As I understand it the yarn overs are increases. So you DO end up with more stitches then you follow the decreases when it is big enough – a diamond shape that when turned round is a square.
I make blankets in a slight varied way as I increase each end of every other row and have a stocking stitch edge – it is the same principal and all have been gladly received as gifts.
Gutted! Just knitted some baby jackets for my Niece’s new baby and she doesn’t want them!
They are knitted in various shades of blue, medium, denim, navy. Is it no longer fashionable
to knit jackets for 2015 baby arrivals?
What does everyone think?
It is still fashionable. I have given them to some of my friends and they really like them. We also have a farmers market here and they go very well
Your niece is an ungrateful, insensitive jerk!!!! You made those jackets with love and she should have accepted them graciously and save them for when you visit if she didn’t want them. Or better yet, donate them to a hospital or shelter.
Knitted jackets are most certainly still in fashion. They always have and I don’t think they will ever go out of fashion. Yes, you niece is most certainly a very ungrateful person!
I am looking for the waffle pattern to crochet. Does any one have it. I want to make a blanket
I made this blanket and I thought it was weird also to start with only 5 stitches. As I progressed with the pattern I could see the blanket getting bigger. When I reached 99 stitches I started to decrease as the pattern says and I could see the blanket take shape. I used 3 skeins of Lion Brand Wool Ease Think & Quick and the end result was a 30″X30″ and perfect for a newborn to come home from hospital.
Thanks Karen, I now totally agree with your comment. Denise – UK.
Help! I am knitting my first baby blanket. This is what I have done. Cast on 3 stitches, knit one, yarn over, knit the rest of row. I am ready to start decreasing. Can I Knit one, knit two together, knit rest of row?
This is one of my favorite blanket patterns, there is no thinking and you don’t have to really follow a pattern, just increase until you have the size you want and then decrease. I have made many of these.
Do you have to use cicular needles? I don’t like wokrking with them can you use straight needles if so would size 10 be ok.
I’m using straight needles – 9mm- am halfway through – and all is well…what a great easy and fast growing project.
How big does this end up being when using 5 skeins?
In the pattern, is there a different meaning for the abbreviations K and k?
This doesn’t make sense to me. So you knit the gauge, then at the beginning of the next row you cast on 5 sts. Once you knit the pattern until you have 90 sts, wouldn’t there be just an extra chunk of work at the edge?
This really is a simple to knit baby blanket for anyone to Knit. Unfortunately I had to do it in two colours as I could not match the first lot of wool I used. But it is okay Very very easy for someone who does not knit with skill but knits with love! Looking forward to knitting it again when I know what our daughter in law is expecting. Pink or Blue.
Would like to see more crochet for beginners and knit and more patterns so u can down load on a iPad ect
Just finished my first new river blanket project. I loved the pattern but not happy with the finished look. The 5 stitch cast on corners ended straight across not matching the other corners where decrease began. They were rounded and everything seemed to curl in on itself. Have any of you more experienced knitters tweeked this pattern to make it look more uniformed..Please advise. I dont want to give up future projects but the look really was disappointing. I am not advanced enough to figure this out on my own. Need expert advise.
Question: Is it possible to make the blanket oblong/ rectangle shape or does it have to be square due to the stitch increasing formula? I like the way the centre is diagonal and thought there might be a simple way to adapt the pattern- thanks.
I just starting decreasing rows with this pattern and the border is coming out different than the rows increasing. Is there anything wrong in the pattern or is it me? The border following the pattern in the decreasing rows looks exactly like the border on the picture. My first triangle looks different than the second. Help!
Send details please
When decreasing doing 2 k2togs made the edge look different than the first part of my knitting project. But it looked just like the one in the picture. To keep up with the first part I only did 1 k2tog.
Also, the blanket seems very heavy. I used the yarn indicated in the instructions and used 5 1/2 balls.
For a beginner it is hard to understand how to read a pattern. Please help
I’m only about half way through the blanket, but I am wondering if there is a way to make the first corner more of a corner. Since I cast on 5 stitches it’s more flat than pointed. Can I add stitches to it at the end?
You can also knit this blanket with two strands of baby weight (3) yarn. I start by casting on one stitch, inc 1 each row until there are six stitches on the needle. Then I begin the k3, yo, k to end of row pattern. At the end, I stop the yo after I have five stitches left on the needle. Next two rows I K1, K2tog, k to end of row. With 3 stitches left, s1k, K2tog and pull the slipped st over your knitted stitch. Cut yarn and pull through. It makes the beginning and ending corners a little more exact.
Is YO the same as yfwd or is it yarn round needle?
YO=Yarn Over.So yes you wrap your yarn over the needle then knit the next stitch or as pattern follows. This YO will increase your stitches on each row. Hope this helps.
I too have used this pattern to knit dishcloths which require 42 stitches before decreasing.
How does your blanket become so large with just 90 sts? It seems like there should be about 150 or more!
It’s the thickness of the yarn along with bigger size needles that nakes it bigger. I’ve use a pattern like this for a washcloth but in 100% cotton with sz 6 needles with about 69 stitches (I like 10×10 sz dishcloth). Hopes this helps.
I am going to use size 8 MM needle, how many balls of yarn would I need? Perhaps 6?
Sally
This is a brilliant pattern . I belong to a knitting group & my ladies love this pattern . We donate all our stuff to the maternity ward of a local hospital
is there a video on how to make this blanket