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Free Crochet Granny Square Blanket Pattern

ByApril
Colorful granny square blanket laying on a wooden rocker folded into quarters. It has squares in four colors with white joins and border. Text on the image reads: Banana Moon Studio.

Kingfisher granny square crochet blanket pattern

This crochet granny square blanket pattern is made with 5 inch classic granny squares in bright colors joined together with white and edged with a lovely granny stitch and picot border. You’ll find instructions for several different blanket sizes.

Each square is crocheted with DK/3 weight yarn in a premium acrylic, so you get a blanket that is soft, fairly lightweight, and easy care.

Each square is made in just one color of yarn, to minimize ends to weave in. And the contrasting white joins and edging really pop against the bright colors.

You’ll love the pretty edging, which is a mix of granny stitch and picot stitches in the final round. Check out the included video tutorial for a trick to make the picot stitches easy!

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Crochet granny square blanket folded into quarters and lying on the seat of a wooden rocking chair in front of a brick wall. The blanket is made of squares in four bright colors, joined and edged with white. A white panel with text reads: Crochet granny square blanket pattern, free crochet pattern, Banana Moon Studio.

Granny Fest Blog Hop & CAL

This granny square blanket pattern is featured in Granny Fest 2025 blog hop and crochet along! This fun event features 18 granny stitch and granny square projects. One will be featured each day starting on January 15, 2025 and going through February 1.

The crochet along, or CAL continues through February 14 with participants gathering in the Granny Fest Facebook group to share their projects, meet friends, chat, and meet the designers.

If you would like to participate in Granny Fest, the first step is to visit the event roundup. Choose a granny stitch or granny square project from the 18 featured patterns.

Granny Fest roundup

Then, join the Granny Fest Facebook group and start chatting and sharing!

Granny Fest Facebook group

If you want to crochet this granny square blanket for your Granny Fest project, the free pattern is available below when you sign in with your email address. If you prefer ad-free, you can purchase the pdf in one of my shops. With the code GRANNYFEST you can get the pattern at 30% off through 2/14!

How big should I make this granny square blanket?

That depends on the blanket’s purpose and where you plan to use it. A small lovey for a baby could be made of just four granny squares, whereas a king size bedspread will need hundreds. Below I’ll list the dimensions and number of squares for each of the included sizes of blankets in this crochet pattern.

Lovey, 13 x 13 inches, 4 granny squares

Security, 18 x 18 inches, 9 granny squares

Baby, 33 x 33 inches, 36 granny squares

Blanket made of granny squares in mustard yellow, fuchsia, aqua, and hunter green with white joins and a white border. It lays flat over the arm of a brown sofa. Text on the image reads: Banana Moon Studio.

Crib, 63 x 43 inches, 96 granny squares

Lap, 48 x 38 inches, 63 granny squares

Throw, 48 x 68 inches, 117 granny squares

Twin, 93 x 63 inches, 216 granny squares

Queen, 93 x 93 inches, 324 granny squares

King, 108 x 93 inches, 378 granny squares

The Classic Granny Square Crochet Pattern Collection

This granny square blanket crochet pattern is part of the Classic Granny Square Crochet Pattern Collection, a group of six crochet patterns that all use traditional granny squares to make beautiful crochet projects that you and your family will love!

Each of the six crochet patterns in the Classic Granny Square Crochet Pattern Collection is, or will be, available free, ad-supported here on my website. You can also purchase each crochet pattern in the collection individually in my Etsy or Ravelry shop.

Or you can purchase the entire collection and get all six granny square crochet patterns at a discount!

If you decide to use the free version, please bookmark this page and come back to it when you work on your project rather than trying to print or screenshot the page. Your time on this page helps me get paid for my work, so thank you!

If you prefer an ad-free option, you can purchase an inexpensive PDF of this pattern. It’s available both as an individual pattern, or as part of my Classic Granny Square Crochet Pattern Collection in both my Etsy and Ravelry shops.

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Or find the free, ad-supported versions of the other crochet patterns in the Classic Granny Square Collection at the links below.

Gracemont Cardigan

Dixon Drawstring Bag

Zena Zipper Pouch

Carmen Granny Square Cowl

Harmon Granny Square Hat

The corner of a crochet granny square blanket in four colors with white joins and edging laying over a dark wood surface. Text on the image reads: Banana Moon Studio.

Kingfisher Granny Square Blanket, a crochet pattern

By April Garwood of Banana Moon Studio

(C)2024 April Garwood. As with all my patterns, please do not make paper or digital copies for others. Instead, please direct them to my website to get their own. Thank you!

Difficulty Level: Easy

Available Sizes: Lovey [Security, Baby, Crib, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, King]

Finished Measurements: Length 13 [18, 33, 63, 48, 48, 93, 93, 108] inches; Width 13 [18, 33, 43, 38, 68, 63, 93, 93] inches.

Yarn: Universal Yarn Uptown DK (100% Acrylic, 273 yds; 100 g; yarn weight category 3/DK/Light): #141 Bright Yellow (color A), #146 Aqua (color B), #104 Bashful (color C), #113 Root (color D), and #101 White (color E).

Yardage: You will need about 100 [220, 875, 2325, 1530, 2835, 5225, 7840, 9145] yds total for your squares. Divide this by the number of colors you plan to use to get yardage amounts for each color.

You will need about 85 [130, 250, 505, 385, 565, 830, 1070, 1190] yds of the color you plan to use for joining and edging.

Crochet Hook: I (5.5 mm) for granny squares and edging, and J (6 mm) for joining, or sizes needed to match gauge.

Notions: 4 Locking stitch markers, tapestry needle.

Gauge: 5 rnds of granny square = about 5 inches

Notes

This pattern uses standard US terms. For help with abbreviations, get my free, printable crochet abbreviations list here.

See this tutorial post for help with basic crochet stitches.

Find a full video tutorial for this granny square blanket pattern here.

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Special Stitches

Picot: Ch 3, starting from above st, insert hook under front loop and one vertical bar of last st, yo, pull through both strands of st and loop on hook.

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Granny Square

Make 4 [9, 36, 96, 63, 117, 216, 324, 378] divided evenly by the number of colors you plan to use.

With A, B, C, or D and smaller hook, make a Magic Ring by wrapping the yarn around the first two fingers of your right hand one full time. With your left hand, carefully grab both strands where they meet and pull the ring off your right fingers, place your hook through this ring, yarn over, pull up a loop, and you are ready to begin Rnd 1.

Rnd 1 (RS): Ch 2 (does not count as a st throughout), [3 dc in ring, ch 2] 3 times, 3 dc in ring, hdc in first st to join (hdc counts as corner ch-sp) – 12 dc.

Rnd 2: Ch 2, 3 dc in corner ch-sp, *skip next 3 sts, (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in next corner ch-sp, repeat from * 2 more times, skip next 3 sts, 3 dc in next corner ch-sp, hdc in first st to join – 24 dc.

Rnd 3: Ch 2, 3 dc in corner ch-sp, *3 dc in each sp between 3-dc groups to next corner ch-sp, skipping sts between the sps, (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in next corner ch-sp, repeat from * 2 more times, 3 dc in each sp between 3-dc groups to next corner ch-sp, skipping sts between the sps, 3 dc in next corner ch-sp, hdc in first st to join – 36 dc.

Rnds 4-5: Repeat Rnd 3 – 60 dc. Fasten off.

Layout

Decide how you want to arrange the different colors of squares. I mostly arranged mine randomly, but made sure that I never had two squares of the same color right next to each other vertically or horizontally.

Your blanket will have the following layout.

Lovey, 2 squares x 2 squares

Security, 3 squares x 3 squares

Baby, 6 squares x 6 squares

Crib, 8 squares x 12 squares

Lap, 7 squares x 9 squares

Throw, 9 squares x 13 squares

Twin, 12 squares x 18 squares

Queen, 18 squares x 18 squares

King, 18 squares x 21 squares

Flat Slip Stitch Join

I suggest using the flat slip stitch joining method, but you can use a different method if you prefer.

The chains of corner ch-sps will be joined along with the side to which they are closest. Each side has 15 stitches, but the joining for each side will include 17 slip stitches because you will include one chain at each end from the corner chain-spaces.

Place first square of first row on a flat surface in front of you with RS up. Place first square of second row also RS up in front of you above the first square so that the line between them runs horizontally across your flat surface.

With E and larger hook, make a slip knot in yarn and place it on hook, insert hook through back loop of first ch of first corner ch-sp of top square, insert hook through back loop of second ch of first corner ch-sp of bottom square, yo, pull through both chs and loop on hook. As you continue, keep working yarn below squares and hook so that as you work, you are pulling the working yarn from underneath your join.

*Insert hook through back loop of next st of bottom square, insert hook through back loop of next st of top square, yo, pull through both sts and loop on hook, insert hook through back loop of next st of top square, insert hook through back loop of next st of bottom square, yo, pull through both sts and loop on hook, repeat from * across in every st and corner ch, working each corner ch with the side to which it is closest.

After you join one set of squares, ch 1, and continue to join the next set of squares in order in the two rows.

When you have completed joining all the squares in those two rows, fasten off. Then join in order all the squares of the third row to those of the second row, and so on, always working joins in the same direction across the blanket.

Continue in this way until all the rows of squares are joined together.

Then, turn the piece 90 degrees and join the columns of squares in the same manner, working each column of joining in the same direction as all other columns.

Each time you come to a corner, you will ch 1 and continue to the next set of squares, letting the ch and working yarn travel over the perpendicular join.

Edging

Rnd 1 (RS): (Join with sc, sc) in one corner ch-sp, *[sc in each st and ch-sp to next join, sc in next join] to next blanket corner**, 4 sc in corner, place marker in second corner st, repeat from * 3 more times, ending last repeat at **, 2 more sc in blanket corner, place marker in last st, sl st in first st to join – short sides 37 [55, 109, 145, 127, 163, 217, 325, 325] sc; long sides 37 [55, 109, 217, 163, 235, 325, 325, 379] sc; total 148 [220, 436, 724, 580, 796, 1084, 1300, 1408] sc.

Rnd 2: Ch 2, 3 dc in first st, *[skip 2 sts, 3 dc in next st] to 2 sts before next marker, skip next 2 sts, 3 dc in marked st**, remove marker, ch 2 (counts as corner ch-sp), 3 dc in next st, repeat from * 3 more times, ending last repat at **, hdc in first st to join – 156 [228, 444, 732, 588, 804, 1092, 1308, 1416] dc.

Rnd 3: Ch 2, 3 dc in corner ch-sp, *3 dc in each sp between 3-dc groups to next corner ch-sp, skipping sts between the sps**, (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in next corner ch-sp, repeat from * 3 more times, ending last repeat at **, 3 dc in next corner ch-sp, hdc in first st to join – 168 [240, 456, 744, 600, 816, 1104, 1320, 1428] dc.

Rnd 4: Ch 1 loosely, (hdc, picot, sc) in corner ch-sp, *[sc in next st, ch 1, hdc in next st, picot, sc in next st] to next corner ch-sp**, (sc, ch 1, hdc, picot, sc) in next corner ch-sp, repeat from * 3 more times, ending last repeat at **, sc in last ch-sp, sl st in first st to join – 60 [84, 156, 252, 204, 276, 372, 444, 480] picot.

Finishing

Weave in all ends. Block to measurements. Finished!

That finishes this crochet granny square blanket pattern. I hope you enjoyed crocheting your blanket. I would love to see your in-process or finished blankets! You can share them on Instagram and tag me, or you can join my friendly Facebook group and share them there.

Happy crocheting!

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A crochet granny square blanket in four bright colors folded in quarters and laying on the seat of a wooden rocker in front of a brick wall. A white panel with text reads: Free crochet pattern, granny square blanket, banana moon studio.
A crochet granny square baby blanket in four colors of squares with a white edging lies spread out over the arm of a brown sofa, White and dark purple panels with text read: Free crochet pattern, granny square blanket, tutorials included, banana moon studio.
A crochet granny square baby blanket in four colors of squares with a white edging lies spread out over the arm of a brown sofa, Text on the image reads: Granny square blanket, free crochet pattern, banana moon studio.
A crochet granny square baby blanket in four colors of squares with a white edging lies spread out on the ground over fall leaves. A purple panel with text reads: Granny square blanket free crochet pattern, banana moon studio.

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    1. You’ll see the pattern heading, the introductory info about measurements and supplies, etc. Then there is a spot where you will need to sign in with your email address to access the free pattern. Entering your email address will subscribe you to my newsletter.

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