Mitered Squares Baby Blanket -- Crocheted

Do you ever run across a new pattern that looks intriguing and when you read it, you just can't seem to get how it is going to come together? Well, I came across this pattern through a recent email from Mary Maxim advertising a sale on Bernat's Organic Cotton yarn. If you want the pattern you just have to sign up at the Bernat website, which is easy and free and gives you access to a boatload of great patterns!

Anyway this pattern intrigued me so I just had to try it and here's how it works.


First you chain the given amount and, using the back loops only, single crochet the first row.

Easy enough, and here's how it looks.


For the next row, you single crochet in the back loops skipping two stitches in the middle of the row as indicated in the pattern. This is the beginning of the mitered corner.


Continue in the same manner, decreasing in the middle as indicated.


With each new row, the mitered corner becomes more pronounced.


Here is the first square almost finished.



Once you have gotten to the last three single crochets, you draw up a loop in each of the three stitches and then draw up a loop and pull it through all four loops on the hook to finish the first square.


Now here's the part that intrigued me. To start the next square without ending the yarn, you simply single crochet down one side of the square, then chain stitch enough for the second side of the next square. Then you continue as with the first square.


Again the mitered corner slowly takes shape.



The second square is finished off in the same manner as the first and the third square is begun.

I have so far finished four squares and started on the fifth. The blanket is seven squares by seven squares, but I suppose it could be made to any dimension you like.

Since my local yarn supplier did not carry Bernat's Organic Cotton, and I didn't want to wait a week to receive my yarn or pay shipping costs, I substituted Lion Brand's Cotton yarn instead. As it turned out, the Lion Brand cotton skeins were twice the size as the Bernat cotton for the same regular price, so I saved money all around.

Once I finish the blanket I'll be sure to show you how it turned out and let you know if this is a pattern I would make again. So far so good!

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