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Crochet baby blanket pattern: moss-stitch rows

Chain 82 and follow the moss-stitch space row for 60 rows. Each row has 40 single crochets and 40 spaces, including its starting space.

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Moss-stitch rowsUS termsHook: 5 mm (US H-8), or the size that gives you gaugeSize from your washed swatchEm portuguêsDK or worsted yarn

Know these stitches: moss stitch

The finished baby blanket.

Materials and yarn planning

Yarns we’ve reviewed that suit it: Lion Brand Basic Stitch Anti-Pilling yarn, Lion Brand Heartland yarn, Lion Brand Wool-Ease DK yarn. For the hook, choose by size and handle.

For an exact figure in your own yarn, weigh a washed swatch in the pattern stitch: the weighed-swatch yarn calculator scales it to each flat panel or strip. Allow a little more for seams, edging and tails.

Finished size and gauge

Count only single crochets across the moss-stitch swatch while including the intervening spaces in its measured width. If S single crochets span 10 cm and R rows span 10 cm, the planned size is 400 ÷ S by 600 ÷ R cm. This pattern makes no infant-sleep or safety claim.

The shape of the baby blanket

The shape of the baby blanket.

Sizes from your swatch

Example: 9 single crochets and 18 rows in 10 cm, counting the single crochets of the moss stitch only. Type your own swatch over it to see your counts.

Common blanket sizes; count single crochets only across the moss stitch.
SizeWidthLengthStitchesRows
Stroller76.2 cm (30 in)88.9 cm (35 in)69 (chain 140)160
Receiving101.6 cm (40 in)101.6 cm (40 in)91 (chain 184)183
Crib114.3 cm (45 in)152.4 cm (60 in)103 (chain 208)274
Toddler106.7 cm (42 in)132.1 cm (52 in)96 (chain 194)238

Counts are rounded to whole stitches and rows. Check the first rows against your swatch.

The gauge calculator compares your swatch with the pattern. A stitch name you do not know is in the abbreviation chart; a UK pattern’s names are in the US/UK term reference.

The pattern

Count rows for this pattern

Set up the blanket

  1. Chain 82. Single crochet in the fourth chain from the hook. The skipped chains form the starting edge and first space.
  2. Repeat [chain 1, skip next chain, single crochet in next chain] to the end. Count 40 single crochets and 40 spaces including the starting space.
  3. Mark the starting-chain space and final single crochet so neither edge disappears into the yarn.

Repeat and finish

  1. Chain 2 and turn. Single crochet in the next chain space. Repeat [chain 1, skip next single crochet, single crochet in next chain space] across, finishing in the previous starting-chain space.
  2. Keep 40 single crochets and 40 spaces per row. Continue until you have 60 rows, or your swatch-based planned row count.
  3. Fasten off and weave tails through the backs of stitches in changing directions. This version has no separate border.
  4. Wash and dry by the yarn label and measure the finished piece. Retain the label with it.

Check the work

The last single crochet is always in the previous row’s starting space. There are no added stitches in the individual single-crochet tops.

Single crochets in each row; spaces counted separately40 · 40 · 40
  • If the blanket narrows, inspect the starting-chain space at the row end.
  • If the planned size is wrong, use the actual moss-stitch gauge, not plain single-crochet gauge.

Updated . Stitch counts checked row by row; we haven’t crocheted a sample of this one yet. How the patterns are checked. Keep your yarn label, hook and swatch on the printable project worksheet.

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