One of these titles was called “I Have a Little Seedling” and the illustrations and message of the story matched my budding crochet seedling blanket so well – it felt meant to be!Īlthough I am in love with this crochet seedling blanket in a baby size gifted to a new mom along with the seedling story that matches it so well, I have written this pattern to work for blankets of just about any size!

I usually read my old favorites but I would have loved to have these books when he was that little – and what a lovely baby shower gift! Thinking back to when my own son was a newborn, I never knew what to read to him. On a trip to our local library, I noticed a bunch of books on the table of featured titles that were made for newborns. I’ve been calling this blanket the seedling blanket ever since! Once I started working up the stitch I realized it looks a lot like the knitted seed stitch. I’ve been wanting to revise it with a much lighter weight yarn for a more delicate, heirloom style crochet baby blanket project. Way back in the first year of designing, I made a huge chunky blanket called the mini basketweave blanket using a new-to-me stitch. I’m so excited to bring these two passions of mine together in this series this year, the first of which is this crochet seedling blanket!

That sparked an idea – a collection of crochet patterns inspired by children’s books. After a big pattern sale last fall, we actually took half of our proceeds and used it to buy children’s books for our local hospital. Or scroll on down for the free pattern.Ĭrochet is obviously a big passion of mine (it’s why I have a whole blog about it, ha!) but another big passion of mine is children’s books. An easy crochet blanket – my Crochet Seedling Blanket – is a free pattern here on the blog! Read through my inspiration, design process, and lots of info on the perfect yarn I chose.

Beginner afghan crochet patterns free