Dada's Place

Crochet wonderland

English Garden Baby Blanket

by Filed Under: Crochet baby blanket patterns, Crochet blankets 29 Comments

English garden baby blanket pattern
A long time ago I fell in love with English gardens. The culprit for that was Penelope Hobhouse, a famous British gardener. I enjoyed immensely watching her amazing TV gardening shows, while dreaming of having a beautiful, lush garden of my own. Now, many years after, I still don’t have any garden, let alone an English garden. I live in a flat on the seventh floor… but, I have my beautiful plants on the balcony, my little piece of heaven. There I keep a ginkgo biloba tree, which we brought from Hungary when my son was a little baby, a little olive tree we brought from Corfu island (Greece), a yellow hibiscus, also brought from Greece, a little avocado tree, grown from the seed… along with many others seasonal flowering plants…
English garden baby blanket border
So, I decided, if I can’t have an English garden, I can have at least an English Garden Blanket. Now, you can see how much love has been weaved into this blooming blanket.
Flowery granny square blanket pattern
The blanket is made of 100% cotton yarn “Tango” and “Tango color”, 125m/50g from St. George (manufacturer from Serbia). It measures approximately 83 x 68 cm (32.5″ x 26.5″).
English garden crochet blanket pattern
The English Garden Blanket is similar to my Victorian Flower Blanket. Actually, the first 4 rows are the same, but the blankets have different petals, and the last 2 rows are different, too. It seems to me that the English Garden Blanket is lighter, more transparent and has that appealing lacy charm. The borders are completely different, but I think that the English Garden Blanket border would look nice on Victorian Flower Blanket and vice versa.
Vintage granny square crochet blanket pattern
For this blanket I used 3,5 mm crochet hook (USA – size E-4, UK – size 9). The pattern is written using US crochet terms.

 

The English Garden Blanket pattern is very detailed with lots of step-by-step photographs. When I write a pattern, I always have in mind that not so long ago I was a complete beginner, not knowing anything about crochet… So I want my patterns to be clear and easy to follow. That’s why this pattern has more than 90 step-by-step photographs, 5 crochet charts and several diagrams.
English Garden Crochet Blanket step-by-step tutorial
English Garden crochet baby blanket
*
So, if you love English gardens too, and would like to have one in the form of a blanket, you can purchase this  pattern in Dada’s place shop. (Payment options: credit cards and PayPal)
*
You can also buy it in my Ravelry shop and  in my Etsy shop. (payment option: PayPal)
*

Comments

  7. Pretty awesome! Love this going out into three dimensions a bit, though it requires more thread and the blanket gets heavier. But it looks just wonderful and reminds very much of a flowery garden! Great work!!!

    Reply

  10. This is absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful! You are so talented and your creations are truly works of art. Just amazing.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *