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You know how it is. You’re standing at the yarn store weighing the money in your bank account versus the new yarn on the shelf. You don’t know what you’re going to make with it, but you feel like part of you will be missing if you leave the store without it.

Meet Bernat Baby Blanket Tiny. It is as soft and cuddly as the normal Baby Blanket yarn, but about a quarter the size. This lets you make a super soft blanket, but leave the bulk behind. I picked up three skeins in Clear Sky, but still didn’t know what it would become. (Hint: Pull this yarn from the outside. When pulled from the center, yarn will likely break.)

I did know who it was for. A friend of mine is having her second baby, but they are letting us be surprised with it’s gender (they know!). I didn’t want the blanket to be too flowery or girly since the baby might be a boy. Thus the Tiny Basketweave Baby Blanket was born!

Now, basketweave is nothing new, and in my pattern, it’s actually not tiny! The basketweave in this blanket is made alternating front post double crochet and back post double crochet every ten stitches (many patterns switch every 3 stitches). You can add a border, or leave it without a border (I’ve kind of built one in.).

Tiny Basketweave Baby Blanket

Yarn: 3 skeins of Bernat Baby Blanket Tiny

Hook: H-hook (5mm)

Finished size: Approximately 28×33″

Special Stitches: 

• FPDC-Front post double crochet
• BPDC-Back post double crochet
• Crab stitch is also known as reverse single crochet. Check out this video.

Row 1: Ch 115. Dc in third chain from hook and every stitch across. (114 dc)

Row 2: Ch 2, turn. Counts as the first dc here and throughout. (Note: Doing a ch 2 instead of a ch 3 keeps the work from gapping on the ends.) Dc in the next st. [Fpdc around the next 10 dc. Bpdc around the next 10 dc] across to last 12 dc. Fpdc around next 10 dc. Dc  in last two stitches. (114 st)

Row 3: Ch 2, turn. Dc in the next st. [Bpdc around the next 10 stitches. Fpdc around the next 10 st.] across to the last 12 dc. Bpdc around next 10 st. Dc in last 2 st.

Row 4: Repeat Row 2.

Row 5: Repeat Row 3.

Row 6: Repeat Row 2.

Row 7: This is where the weave will start. Repeat Row 2.

Row 8: Repeat Row 3.

Row 9: Repeat Row 2.

Row 10: Repeat row 3.

Row 11: Repeat row 2.

Continue to repeat rows 7-11, with each “strip” being Row 2, Row 3, Row 2, Row 3, Row 2, until the desired length.

Final row: Ch 2, turn. Dc in each stitch across.

You can end the blanket now or continue on to the border.

Border

Do not turn.

Round 1: 3 sc in corner dc. [Work 2 sc in each row down the side. 3 sc in corner. Sc in each st across.* 3 sc in corner] Repeat once ending at *. Join with sl st to first sc.

Round 2: Do not turn. Work one crab stitch (reverse single crochet) in every st around the blanket. Do not add extra stitches to the corners. Join sith sl st to first st.

Finish off yarn and weave in ends.