A new 3 colors crochet blanket border pattern, the Gingham Edge Crochet Blanket, is now a free easy crochet gingham baby blanket pattern here on the blog. Read all about how to use this border on any blanket and the crochet edge pattern collection it is a part of or scroll down for the complete free crochet blanket pattern.
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The Gingham motif is a timeless classic but it can be a bit heavy for an entire blanket. I just love how it turned out as a wide decorative border on a plain blanket middle section.
Don’t let the intricate look of interlocking colors impress you though! Each round is worked with just 2 colors in intarsia style (carrying both colors along the entire round so no ends to weave in).
The Gingham Border Blanket is designed for you to be able to easily adapt this crochet blanket border pattern to any blanket center you want.
With its simple basic stitches (all single crochet), this gingham crochet blanket border pattern is an easy choice for whipping up a quick gift in worsted weight yarn. For example, you can make a gorgeous unisex baby blanket to gift a wonderful friend at her baby shower. Or choose any of our 7 sizes from baby to king to suit your needs. Go ahead and give it a try!
Choosing Your Colors
For the Gingham pattern to come out nicely you will need 3 coordinating colors. One light, one medium, and one darker, ideally all 3 should be in the same color family.
The concept of the gingham pattern is for the darkest color to correspond to a double layer of the medium color.
Of course, you’re welcome to move away from this classic gingham pattern but if you want to get the same effect of lines of different colors crossing over each other making darker and lighter areas you’ll need 3 coordinating colors.
I also recommend one of the colors to be the same as the central piece of the blanket for the border to work well with the centerpiece and not seem disconnected.
Classics on the Edge Collection
This blanket pattern is part of the Classics on the Edge Collection. It is a set of 4 easy crochet blanket patterns where classic crochet blanket constructions / types are revisited by featuring them on a wide blanket border with a sober blanket center.
All crochet blanket border patterns come in several sizes (from baby to king size) with instructions on how to adjust the crochet border instructions for any blanket project.
The 4 patterns in the collection are:
- The Waffle Border Blanket: find the free crochet pattern here
- The Polka Dots Edge Blanket: find the free crochet pattern here
- The Gingham Edge Blanket: find the free crochet pattern here
- The Granny Square Border Blanket: coming soon
All patterns in the collection will be released over the coming weeks/months. However, you can already grab the entire collection ebook here.
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Downloadable Gingham Edge Crochet Blanket Border Pattern
Grab the printable PDF of the Gingham Edge Crochet Blanket pattern now in my Etsy shop or on Ravelry.
Before you Start
Materials
- 5.5 mm / US I – 9 hook
- Worsted weight yarn: Royal Zeeman yarn (100% acrylic, 100g/3.5oz, 241m/264yd):
- 3 (6, 7, 13, 22, 23, 27) skeins in off-white (MC)
- 2 (3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7) skeins in light blue (A)
- 1 (2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4) Skeins in dark blue (B)
- You can easily substitute with any worsted weight yarn you want.
- Tapestry needle to weave in the ends.
Because the yarn I used is not available everywhere, and I know how painful it is to try to find equivalent yarn which will give you the same effect I have selected a few equivalent yarns for you. I haven’t tried them out myself, but they look so pretty, check them out!
- Lion Brand Wool-Ease They have this yarn in about 20 colors, I’m sure you’ll fall in love with more than one.
- La Mia Just Wool
elann Wool Mate- RED HEART Super Saver Yarn. This yarn also exists in more than 60 colors.
Gauge
The gauge for this pattern is 14 st by 17 rows in sc for a 10 cm by 10 cm square (4” by 4”).
Size
The crochet blanket border pattern is available in 7 sizes, noted baby (crib, throw, twin, double, queen, king) throughout the pattern. Pictures illustrate the baby.
The table below shows the different sizes.
| Blanket sizes | Inches | Inches | Centimeters | Centimeters | Edge Starting Stitches | Edge Starting Stitches |
| Width | Length | Width | Length | Width | Length | |
| Baby | 30 | 35 | 76 | 89 | 45 | 63 |
| Crib – Regular | 45 | 60 | 115 | 153 | 99 | 153 |
| Throw | 50 | 60 | 128 | 153 | 117 | 153 |
| Twin | 65 | 91 | 166 | 230 | 171 | 261 |
| Double | 91 | 111 | 230 | 282 | 262 | 333 |
| Queen | 96 | 111 | 243 | 282 | 279 | 333 |
| King | 111 | 111 | 282 | 282 | 333 | 333 |
You can easily adapt the size to your desired project size, instructions are given in the pattern below.
How to Use the Gingham Edging on Another Blanket
Of course, you could use this gingham edging pattern on any blanket of yours. In order to do so, you need each side of your blanket to have an uneven multiple of 9 stitches (including corner st) for your starting round. You can then simply follow the instructions starting with round 2 in the Gingham Border section below.
The width of the border is 22 cm / 8.5”.
Abbreviations
This pattern uses US notations.
- st = stitch
- ch = chain
- sc = single crochet
- sl st = slip stitch
Notes
Work instructions between [] the indicated number of times or until the end of the row/round. Instructions between () are worked in the same stitch/space.
The final number of stitches is indicated at the end of the row/round between < >.
The turning ch 1, ch 2 don’t count as stitches throughout the pattern except if mentioned.
The pattern is written in crochet shorthand. For example:
- “dc 1” means to double crochet in the next stitch,
- “dc 2” means to double crochet in each of the next 2 stitches,
- and “2 dc” means to double crochet twice in the next st.
The color the stitches should be worked in is indicated in () before the stitches.
For example: (A) sc 5, (B) sc 7 means single crochet 5 stitches in color A, then single crochet 7 stitches in color B. Refer to the materials section for the colors A, B and MC refer to.
Tips and Tricks
- To change yarn color, work last st of old color to last yarn over. Yarn over with new color and draw through all loops on hook to complete st.
- When using more than one color in a row, working over the unused color in tapestry style.
The Actual Crochet Blanket Border Pattern
Crochet Blanket Body
With your 5.5 mm / US I – 9 hook and MC yarn, ch 45 (99, 117, 171, 261, 279, 333) + 1.
Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc across. <99 st>
Row 2: Ch 1, sc across, turn.
Repeat Row 2 until you reach 45 (109, 109, 186, 238, 238, 238) cm
Fasten off.
Gingham Border Pattern
Work around the blanket, making 1 sc in each sc and approximately 8 sc per 10 rows. You should reach the following stitch counts per side:
- Width: 45 (99, 117,171, 261, 279, 333) st
- Length: 63 (153, 153, 261, 333, 333, 333) st
Round 1: (MC) Ch 1, *[(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, (A) 3 sc in corner, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] seven times, (MC) sc 9, (A) 3 sc in corner, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 2: (A) Ch 1, *(A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 10 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 3: (MC) Ch 1, *[(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 11 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, (A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 4: (A) Ch 1, *(A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 12 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 5: (MC) Ch 1, *[(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 13 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, (A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 6: (A) Ch 1, *(A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 14 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 7: (MC) Ch 1, *[(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 15 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, (A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 8: (A) Ch 1, *(A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 16 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 9: (MC) Ch 1, *[(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until corner, (MC) sc 9, (A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, repeat from * around, join with a sl st, turn.
You’re now going to switch colors to form the gingham pattern.
Above each MC square should come a color A square and above each color A square a color B square.
Round 10: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, *(A) 3 sc in corner, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) 3 sc in corner, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 11: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until st before corner, *(A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 10 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 12: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 2 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 13: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 3 st before corner, *(A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 12 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 14: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 4 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 15: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 5 st before corner, *(A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 14 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 16: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 6 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 17: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 7 st before corner, *(A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 16 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 18: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 8 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
You’re now going to switch colors again to repeat the first row of color block pattern.
Round 19: (MC) Ch 1, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 9 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, *(A) 3 sc in corner, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 9 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) 3 sc in corner, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st.
Round 20: (A) Ch 1, (A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, (MC) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (MC) sc 9, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 21: (MC) Ch 1, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 11 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 11 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st.
Round 22: (A) Ch 1, (A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, (MC) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (MC) sc 9, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 23: (MC) Ch 1, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 13 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 13 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st.
Round 24: (A) Ch 1, (A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, (MC) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (MC) sc 9, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 25: (MC) Ch 1, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 15 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 15 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st.
Round 26: (A) Ch 1, (A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, (MC) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (MC) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (MC) sc 9, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 27: (MC) Ch 1, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 17 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, *(A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 17 st before corner, (MC) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, [(MC) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st.
You’re now going to switch colors again to repeat the second row of color block pattern.
Round 28: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, (A) sc 9, (B) sc 9, *(A) 3 sc in corner, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) 3 sc in corner, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 29: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until st before corner, *(A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 10 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc, 3 sc in corner, sc, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 30: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, (A) sc 9, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 2 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 2, 3 sc in corner, sc 2, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 31: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 3 st before corner, *(A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 12 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 3, 3 sc in corner, sc 3, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 32: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, (A) sc 9, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 4 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 4, 3 sc in corner, sc 4, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 33: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 5 st before corner, *(A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 14 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 5, 3 sc in corner, sc 5, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 34: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, (A) sc 9, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 6 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 6, 3 sc in corner, sc 6, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Round 35: (A) Ch 1, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 7 st before corner, *(A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until 16 st before corner, (B) sc 9, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 7, 3 sc in corner, sc 7, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until last 9 st, (B) sc 9, join with a sl st.
Round 36: (B) Ch 1, (B) sc 9, (A) sc 9, (B) sc 9, *(A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, (B) sc 9, [(A) sc 9, (B) sc 9] until 8 st before corner, repeat from * until last corner, (A) sc 8, 3 sc in corner, sc 8, [(B) sc 9, (A) sc 9] until end of round, join with a sl st, turn.
Blocking
You’re done with the crocheting part, make sure to weave in all the ends.
To make your blanket even prettier and help straighten your edges and open up the waffle sections block your project.
Don’t skip this step as it can make a huge difference. Read my detailed tutorial on why block, how-to, and all my tips and tricks if you need help.
