Easy Crocheted Striped Baby Blanket

My friend Jane, for whom I made the Diagonal Knit Basketweave Baby Blanket so many years ago, recently brought a pile of handmade blankets to my house so I could pick out the one I had made for her and get some pictures of it, and see some of the others she was given when her babies were little. Beside the Basketweave knit blanket I had made for her firstborn, she also had a crocheted baby blanket done in white and pastel stripes using a stitch that I am not sure actually has a name, but I really liked the look of it and thought I would share it with you. It looks like it would be pretty easy to replicate too.


Here's the whole blanket, partly rumpled up and partly spread out so you can see the horizontal stripes of pretty colors with white in between. I like how the stripes are all the same number of rows.


From looking at this close-up of the edge of the blanket, it seems to be a simple single crochet, chain 2, skip 2, single crochet pattern on the base chain. Then it looks like single crochet, chain 2, skip 2 chains, single crochet in next single crochet on all following rows.


Where the white meets the blue it is easy to see that there is only one single crochet stitch going into the row beneath it for each pattern stitch and it appears that there are two chain stitches between each single crochet, so I think the pattern as written above is correct. I like the overall effect that the stitch makes -- sort of like a ladder design. I also like that it is fairly lightweight, with holes that are so small that they would not tend to catch little fingers and toes.

You can see in the first picture that whoever crocheted this blanket stitched a simple single crochet stitch border of the darker pink all the way around the entire blanket. That's a nice way to finish off the edges while also making them a little more stable than if you just left the row ends unfinished. Very nice job!

I'd love to know the name of this stitch, or the correct pattern for it if I got it wrong. If you recognize it, please share what you know about it.

Thanks, Jane, for sharing this with me!

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