When I knew I was pregnant of my son, I decided to crochet him a blanket. I love granny squares and decided to use hexagon “granny squares” for this blanket. In this article, I’ll show you how you can create your own hexagon baby blanket.
The reason I love granny squares so much is that I can easily create one in front of television or while waiting in the doctor’s office without having to pay too much attention or take the whole blanket with me.
It also is very satisfying to finish a square (or a hexagon in this case 😉 ) feels like making progress.
However, I “forgot” you also have to assemble all the pieces (my least favorite job). Which is why it took me until my son’s 3 months to finally finish this baby blanket.
But enough about me and my blanket… Let me show you how to create yours!
Table of Contents
Choosing the Color Scheme
The fun thing about this blanket is that you can really choose any color you want and choose as many colors as you want.
I chose to use 5 different colors: yellow, turquoise, grey blue, dark blue and light grey.
On my iPad, I sketched what the blanket could look like and experimented with a couple of different color schemes before deciding on this one.
After counting the hexagons, I needed 8 yellow, 20 turquoise, 12 light grey, 16 dark blue and 14 grey blue or a total of 70 hexagons.
The final blanket is like the drawing, 7 hexagons wide and 10 hexagons long.
If you look closely, you’ll notice the final version is slightly different from the sketch but that’s purely because I miscounted and had too much of some colors and not enough of others.
But like I said you make your own version so it doesn’t really matter!
Materials
I used acrylic yarn, 100gr for 200mts and a hook size 7 the original yarn said to use a hook size 4 or 5 but I wanted to make sure the blanket wasn’t too sturdy so I decided to use a bigger hook for a looser result.
This makes that each hexagon measures 16 x 16cm to make a blanket of approx. 116 cm x 135 cm.
Of course you can use different yarn and hook size but you’ll need to adjust the amount of hexagons you use in the blanket.
How to Crochet a Hexagon
For this blanket we’ll need 70 hexagons so you’ll better get good at crocheting hexagons 😉 Luckily it’s really not that hard! I detailed every step below with photos.
The stitches:
The hexagon pattern uses the following stitches (uk terms in brackets):
- ch: chain (ch: chain) = Yarn over, pull through.
- dc: double crochet (Treble crochet: tr) = Yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull up (3 loops on the hook), yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through 2 remaining loops.
- sl st: slip stitch (sl st: slip stitch) = Insert hook, yarn over, pull up and through
The rest of the instructions are written in US terms.
The Hexagon crochet pattern:
Start with a magic ring.
Round 1: Ch 3 (counts as the first dc), dc, ch 2, *2 dc, ch 2* repeat steps between * 4 more times, sl st in the top of the ch 3 to finish the round. (12 – 2 dc stitches per side of the hexagon)
Round 2: Ch 3 (counts as the first dc), dc in dc, *dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 2 dc in dc* repeat steps between * 4 more times, dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, sl st in top of ch 3 (24 – 4 dc stitches per side of the hexagon)
Round 3: Ch 3 (counts as the first dc), 2 dc in the 2 dc, *dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 4 dc in dc’s* repeat steps between * 4 more times, dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, dc in dc, sl st in top of ch 3 (36 – 6 dc stitches per side of the hexagon)
Round 4: Ch 3 (counts as the first dc), 3 dc in the dc’s, *dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 6 dc in dc’s* repeat steps between * 4 more times, dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 2 dc in dc’s, sl st in top of ch 3 (48 – 8 dc stitches per side of the hexagon)
Round 5: Ch 3 (counts as the first dc), 4 dc in the dc’s, *dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 8 dc in dc’s* repeat steps between * 4 more times, dc in ch 2 space, ch 2, dc in ch 2 space, 3 dc in dc’s, sl st in top of ch 3 (60 – 10 dc stitches per side of the hexagon)
That’s it! If you want, you can always continue adding more rows to make bigger hexagons. By now, I believe you figured out the pattern.
Assembling the Hexagons into a Blanket
There are many ways to assemble the hexagons, and I choose to crochet them together using a slip stitch in the back loops of the stitches.
I’m not a 100% sure I would do it like this again because it is A LOT of work and because of the hexagon shape you can only do 1 long line of stitches and then you have to assemble (and weave in) hexagon per hexagon…
This is the whole reason it took me an additional 3 months to complete the blanket as I really don’t like weaving in ends!
Creating the Border
To finish the blanket, I decided to create a border with the turquoise yarn.
For this I used the triple crochet (yarn over twice, insert the hook, yarn over, pull up (4 loops on the hook), yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over pull through the remaining 2).
In order to make a nice border, I decreased in between the two hexagon and increased on the corners of the hexagon. This way the shape is nicely preserved.
Time to Crochet Your Hexagon Blanket?
I really liked crocheting all these hexagons and I hope you’ll also enjoy creating your very own version of this blanket! If you do, I would love to see it!
