The Sophie Stripes baby blanket is the perfect mixture of texture and colour. The pattern works up quite fast, but is also interesting to work on since there are several types of stitches. I created this for a friends baby girl and used pink as the contrasting colour, but any colours would work, and you could even change colours for each set of...

One thing I have found when making crochet baby blankets over the years is that I love using white as the main colour with different colours in between, but I don’t want to be able to see the yarn being carried along the row, plus I want different colours within a row. I haven’t found many patterns that do this and so, I made my own. Enter the ...