Yet another one of these blankets, they are so popular with new mum’s.

I’m making this one with cream and green to go with baby boy’s nursery.

Baby is due in July, so I’m a little ahead of the game, but I have a lot of expectant mum’s this year.

As baby is a boy, I’m making the flowers into diamonds. See below for how I did that.

Baby Oliver was born 14th June.

What I did:

As I crochet tightly, my sc stitches are quite shallow, so I substituted the English DK stitches with US hdc.

I added 4 extra stitches to the width. 141 ch ]= 139 hdc.

How I made the flower into diamond:

Before row 6 an after row 10 of flower pattern:

Ch 1, 9 hdc (mb, 19 hdc) x 6 mb 9 hdc

Before row 16 and after row 20

Ch 1 ,19 hdc (mb, 19 hdc) x 5 mb, 19 hdc

Border:

I went around the whole banket with sc, using green on green and cream on cream to get a neater finish.
Crab stitch (reverse sc) all around in green.