Tender Days Blanket

"The Tender Days Blanket is a crochet baby blanket built around a simple two-color border. The center panel works up in alternating rows of double and single crochet for a soft, textured fabric, then a moss stitch border wraps around the whole piece in Azure and Mushroom for a bit of contrast. This stitch is sometimes called moss stitch and sometimes called linen stitch crochet blanket, depending on where you learned it. Both names describe the same simple combination of single crochets and chain-1 spaces, and it makes for an easy crochet border for a baby blanket without any tricky corner shaping."

Crochet HookK/10.5 or 6.5 mm hook

Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)

Crochet GaugeThe gauge for this pattern, in alternating rows of dc and sc, is 11.5 st by 11 rows for a blocked 10 cm/4 inch square.

Finished Size10 sizes, noted baby (receiving, toddler, crib – small, crib – regular, throw, twin, double, queen, king)

Materials List

• Hook: 6.5 mm/US K-10.5 crochet hook(for body),
  7 mm crochet hook(for border)
• Yarn: Worsted Weight, Yarnspirations Caron One Pound (worsted weight (4), 100% Acrylic, 453.6 g/16 oz, 742 m/812 yd) in the color Azure in the following amounts:
  
  1 (1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 9) skeins
  525 (640, 1175, 1010, 1460, 1705, 3390, 5650, 6025, 6255) m/575 (700, 1280, 1105, 1595, 1865, 3710, 6180, 6590, 6840) yd
  
  Loops and Threads Soft Classic Acrylic (worsted weight (4), 100% Acrylic, 198 g/7 oz, 324 m/354 yd) in the color Mushroom in the following amounts:
  
  1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2) skeins
  150 (165, 225, 215, 255, 275, 390, 500, 510, 545) m/165 (185, 250, 235, 280, 300, 425, 545, 560, 600) yd
  
  
• Tapestry Needle