strawberry blanket 🍓

 strawberry blanket 🍓

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🍓 Strawberry Granny Square Blanket Pattern

🧶 Materials

• Worsted weight yarn:

  • Cream/white (main color)

  • Red (strawberries)

  • Green (leaves)

• 5.0 mm (H) crochet hook

• Yarn needle

• Scissors

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🟥 Strawberry Square (Make multiple)

Step 1: Start Center (Strawberry base)

With red yarn:

1. Magic ring

2. Round 1: Ch 2, 10 dc into ring. Sl st to join.

3. Round 2: Ch 2, 2 dc in each stitch around (20 dc). Join.

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🍓 Shape the Strawberry

4. Round 3:

   • Dc 3, dc2tog repeat around to slightly taper shape

   • Fasten off red

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🌿 Add Leaves

Join green yarn at top of strawberry:

• Ch 3, sl st in same stitch

• Repeat 3–5 times to form small leaf bumps

• Fasten off

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⬜ Turn Into Granny Square

Join white yarn anywhere around strawberry:

Round 1:

• Ch 3 (counts as dc)

• Work dc evenly around strawberry

• Add (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in 4 corners to square it

• Join

Round 2+:

• Continue standard granny square:

  • 3 dc clusters along sides

  • (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in corners

• Make 3–5 rounds total depending on size

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🧵 Assembly

1. Make multiple squares (e.g., 20–30 depending on blanket size)

2. Join using:

   • Slip stitch join, OR

   • Whip stitch, OR

   • Join-as-you-go method

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🧁 Border (Optional)

With white yarn:

• Round 1: Single crochet all around

• Round 2: (Sc, ch 2, skip 1) repeat for a lacy edge

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✨ Tips

• You can embroider tiny white “seeds” on strawberries using white yarn

• For a puffier strawberry, use bobble stitches instead of dc

• Keep tension loose so the blanket stays soft