Free crochet “Blooming Spring” blanket- with crochet big 3D flowers and cute butterflies

The newest addition to our crochet pattern list is: “Blooming spring” blanket

This free crochet “Blooming Spring ” blanket was all inspired by nature and all her glorious beauty. This crochet blanket will bring your home joy and colors- who doesn’t need some color in his/her life. I have chosen this name as it reminds me of different blooming Spring flowers.

The design looks complicated, but it is effortless and easy to achieve as I used simple stitches to make the separate parts of it. This crochet pattern also gives you so much opportunity and can make it either like mine or customize it with your own imagination.

If you look at some patterns you have found for free or some you have bought before, you will see that the design can often be made in various ways. This crochet blanket is one of them, so be sure to add it to your wishlist or to-do list.

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As I said, you can make this blanket in different variations, and you will still be using one pattern – Sounds good, right?

Here are some layout ideas that you can try:

1. Using only crochet solid granny squares and mini flower appliques.
2. Using only the textured crochet square and big 3D flowers.
3. Making it as mine but with or whitout butterflies.

You can also check these crochet patterns which are simple begginer friendly patterns and all of you can enjoy them for free.

1./ Rosemary blanket     2./ Amelia booties      3./ Crochet backpack

Now let me share a  bit of information on the construction of the blanket and about the yarn. If you are not interested in these details, scroll down for the pattern itself…

THE DESIGN :

When I started making this blanket I wanted it to be a CAL(crochet-along) a project that we can all work together. But all the lockdown and home schooling my 1st grade daughter – I was not able to finish it as I wanted and I modified the blanket pattern. It took me longer but i managed to finish it up and share it with you.

The blanket is made with small solid granny sqaures worked in simple doble crochet stitch and big textured squares worked in floret stitch. The floret stitch is made alternating sl.st and dc stitches which makes it pretty simple again. And this blanket can be considered as mind-free project as you can take your small squares and crochet everywhere and once you are done with all the piece you will need a space only for the joining process.

Crochet embelishment/appliques that I have used are: big 3D flower, small flower and butterfly. They are crocheted with only simple stitches again and can be made even by a begginer who knows how to make basic stitches.

Oh and the border- I am fan of simple borders as my designs are most of the time overcrowded and when I add colorful or more textured border it makes the blanket to look messy, BUT this time this fancy popcorn bobble border was the perfect finish of this crochet “Blooming Spring” blanket, Don’t you think?

i have tried this border a year or more ago and my bobbles were not looking rifgt BUT this time i made my own way and VOILA it worked.

I made a video tutorial for it as well and now you can use this border for any of your blanket.

Full video tutorial can be found here.- Crochet popcorn bobble border full tutorial. 

You can also buy add-free pdf version of this blanket which includes plenty of pictures to help you out as well here.

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Crochet “Blooming Spring ” blanket pattern:

YOU CAN  FIND THE FREE BUTTERFLY APPLIQUE PATTERN HERE.

Materials:

 Acrylic DK weight yarn for flowers and butterfly- I used Stylecraft Special DK yarn-100gr/322yds/295m 100% acryl 1/2 ball of each color- I used this colors: 1828- boysenberry, 1833- blush, 1026- apricot, 1020- lemon, 1019- cloud blue, 1829- empire, 1831-lapis

 Worsted weight yarn for the blanket itself- I used Lionbrand Pound of love -454g/1020yds/932m 100% acryl – color: Antique white

 Crochet hook size 6mm – US hook size J – for the blanket

 Crochet hook size 4,5mm- US hook size E- for flowers and butterfly

 Tapestry needle

 Pair of scissors

 Hot glue gun if you will stick flowers and butterfly with it.

Abbreviations

Sc- single crochet

Hdc – half double crochet

Dc-double crochet

Tr- treble crochet

Ch(s)- chain(s)

Sl.st – slip stitch

Rep- repeat

Trng- turning

Ch-sp – chain space

St(s)- stitch(es)

Rnd ( s) – round(s)

Prev- previous

FO- fasten off

MR- magic ring

Inc- increase

Dec-decrease
dc3tog- make 3 double crochet stitch together

** – repeat the stitches in the ** indicated times

( ) – (make indicated stitches all in the same st/ch/chsp)

Pattern notes:

Finished size of the blanket is 36 inc x 36 inc / 90 cm x 90 cm

Gauge: 4’ x 4’ – 12 sts, 8 rows Stitch used for gauge – double crochet Finished measurement of solid granny square- 5,5 inches / 14 cm Finished measurements of textured square- 11inches / 28 cm

IMPORTANT DETAILS :

1. The gauge is not important but the tension is important. First make 1 solid square and 1 big square. measure them. Small granny must be 1/4 of the big square. 1. The blanket is made with 2 different size of squares. For the blanket you need to make 12 solid granny squares and 6 textured granny squares.
2.  It is better to sew the flowers and butterflies on the squares before you join the blanket. It will be easier, but if you will stick them with hot glue gun it won’t be a problem to do it after joining.
3. If you would like to make bigger blanket just add 1 more row or column of squares to your blanket. In the blanket I used different colors and order for each flower and butterfly. To make it more easier for you I used letters such as a, b, c to indicate the color. You can find the colors for each flower and butterfly in the chart bellow:

SOLID GRANNY SQUARE – with base color:

Rnd 1: Start with MR, secure with sl.knot, ch 2, 2 dc into the ring, *ch 2, 3 dc into the ring* rep from * to * 3 times, ch 2, join with sl.st in 2nd ch of initial ch 2. (4 clusters of 3dc)

Rnd 2: ch 3, dc in next 2 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner ch-sp), *dc in next 7 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner ch-sp) * rep from * to * 3 times, join with sl.st in 3rd ch of initial ch-3. (7sts in each side)

Rnd 3: ch 3, dc in next 4 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner ch-sp), *dc in next 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner ch-sp) rep from * to * 3 times, dc in next 2 sts, join with sl.st in 3rd ch of initial ch-3. (11 sts in each side)

Rnd 4: ch 3, dc in next 6 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner ch-sp), *dc in next 11 sts, (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next corner chsp) * rep from * to * 3 times, dc in next 4 sts, join with sl.st in 3rd ch of initial ch-3. (15 sts in each side)

Rnd 5: ch 1, sc in base of initial ch 1, sc in next 8 sts, (2 sc, ch 1, 2 sc in next corner ch-sp), *sc in next 15 sts, (2 sc, ch 1, 2 sc in next corner ch-sp), * rep from * to * 3 times, sc in next 6 sts, join with sl.st on top of 1st st. (19 sts in each side) FO.

BIG TEXTURED SQUARE – with base color

Row 1: Start with ch 37, dc in 3rd ch from hook, dc in each ch across (35sts)

Row 2: ch 1(count as sl.st), skip very 2st st, * dc in next st, sl.st in next st * rep from * to * till the last 2 sts, dc in next st, sl.st in 3rd ch of trng ch-3, ch 3(count as dc), turn (35 sts)

Row 3: dc in next 33 sts, dc in 1st ch of initial ch -1, ch 1(count as sl.st), turn Repeat row 2 and 3 alternating them 11 times You should have 12 rows of sl.st and dc in total. FO.

JOINING SQUARES TOGETHER: The joining is made in panels. We will join the parts in 6 panels then we will join 6 panels together. 1 panel is made of 2 small solid squares and 1 big textured square. First take 2 small solid granny squares and join them horizontally. Then take 1 big square and join the solid squares and big square vertically. For joining we will use sc join method. Place both piece that we will join WS facing each other. RS should be facing you. Insert your hook in the corner of both piece and pull a loop, make sc working through both piece, repeat this till the end.

BORDER of the crochet “Blooming Spring”:

The 1st round is worked around the full blanket. But we have some parts which are worked in rows and some regular rnds. Those worked in rnds have regular stitches and pieces worked in rows has rows st. The row st is the last st of the row and we will work around the post of this stitch.

Rnd 1: Make sc in each st around. In the dc rows make 2 sc in same st. join with sl.st on top of 1st st.

Corner– > sc 1, ch 2, sc 1

Rnd 2: ch 3, dc in next st, dc in each st around, join with sl.st in 3rd ch of initial ch- 3.

Corner –> dc 1, ch 2, dc 1

Rnd 3: ch 1, hdc in base of initial ch 1, hdc in each st around, join with sl.st on top of 1st.

Corner –> 2hdc, ch 2, 2 hdc Next 2 rnds are worked in the 3rd loop of hdc stitch

Rnd 4-5: ch 1, hdc in each st around, join with sl.st on top of 1st st.

Corner–> hdc 1, ch 2, hdc 1

This rnd is made with popcorns I switched color after each 5 popcorn bobbles. You can make it 1 colored if you don’t want to weave ends in.

Rnd 6: Insert your hook in one of corner ch-sp, pull a loop and {ch 7, dc3tog in 3rd ch from hook, ch 4, dc 3tog in 4th ch from hook, ch 1, take off the loop from your hook and insert your hook in the ch we made the 1st dc3tog and pull it through, ch 4, sc in same corner ch-sp * ch 7, dc3tog in 3rd ch from hook, ch 4, dc 3tog in 4th ch from hook, ch 1, take off the loop from your hook and insert your hook in the ch we made the 1st dc3tog and pull it through, ch 4, skip 5 sts, sc in next st * rep till the next corner } rep from { to } 4 times, join with sl.st in 1st ch of initial ch-7. When you make the last popcorn bobble before the corner you may have fewer stitches left than 5 . It is not a problem skip those stitches and make the corner popcorn bobble.

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