About the Waves of Grain Design – Using Different C2C Stitches

The beautiful thing about the C2C method is that it can be used in other crochet stitches, and not just the classic C2C stitch!

For this corner to corner baby blanket, I used a variation of the C2C V Stitch and added some puff stitches for the grains and wheat ears look, alternating these stitches. I also used this stitch in my Waves of Grain C2C Table Runner.

But you can use other different corner to corner crochet stitches to make a blanket, like the C2C Wattle stitch, or the C2C Suzette stitch, and also the C2C Moss stitch is perfect as a blanket stitch!

The Yarn I Used For My Crochet Baby Blanket

For my blanket, I used the Wander Acrylic yarn in Thatch which was generously provided to me by Furls as part of the 2022 Crochet Foundry Blog Hop. This is a Worsted (#4) weight yarn, it’s really soft and shiny, and comes in beautiful colors.

Because this blanket is worked in the C2C method, you can also use a thinner yarn with a suitable crochet hook, because the gauge is not crucial for this pattern.

When choosing a yarn for a baby blanket, make sure the yarn is very soft on the skin. It’s also advised to use cotton or acrylic yarns, to avoid any allergic reactions to animal fiber, since if there are, they are not known yet.

How to Adjust The Size Of This C2C Blanket

The instructions are guiding you to make a 35×35″ (89×89 cm) blanket.

What I like about the C2C technique, is that you can work your blanket as big as you’d like, as a square or a rectangle, without counting the stitches and making calculations ahead.
You can find the instructions for a rectangle-shaped blanket in the premium PDF pattern.

To make your blanket in a different size than the pattern suggests, just keep increasing until you reach the desired width, and then move on and start decreasing.

Here’s a blanket sizes chart, this is just a guideline, you can adjust the sizes to your preference.

Corner to Corner Blanket Video Tutorial – Waves of Grain Blanket

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Waves of Grains – Corner to Corner Baby Blanket Free Pattern

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Skill Level – Intermediate

Materials
– 5.5 mm / I crochet hook (I used Streamline Wooden Furls Hook)
– Worsted (#4) weight yarn (I used Wander Acrylic in Thatch)
Total amount of yarn needed: 1,000gr/1,090m/1,200yds

How to Crochet the Puff stitch:

(yo, insert hook into next st, yo and pull up a loop) x 3 times working into same st, yo and pull through all 7 loops on hook.

How to Crochet the Small Puff Stitch (Spuff):

(yo, insert hook into next st, yo and pull up a loop) x 2 times working into same st, yo and pull through all 5 loops on hook.

Waves of Grains C2C Baby Blanket Instructions

C2C Increase

Ch4
Row 1: V-hdc in 4th ch from hook, turn.

Row 2: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp, skip next st, SV-Spuff in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 3: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp,
SV-Spuff in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 4: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, V-hdc in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 5: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp
* Skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp; repeat from * to ch-3 sp, SV-Spuff in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 6: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-puff in next ch-1 sp.
* Skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp; repeat from * to ch-3 sp, V-hdc in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 7: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp.
* Skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp; repeat from * to ch-3 sp, V-hdc in ch-3 sp, turn.

Row 8: repeat row 6.

Row 9: repeat row 7

Row 10: ch3-PM, skip 1^st st, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp.
* Skip next 2 sts, V-puff in next ch-1 sp, skip next 2 sts, V-hdc in next ch-1 sp; repeat from * to ch-3 sp, SV-Spuff in ch-3 sp, turn.

Corner to Corner Baby Blanket Border

For this blanket I chose to make only one round on single crochet stitches for a clean look, I wanted to keep the blanket texture in the center, and not overcome it with a big border.

Turn the blanket in 90 degrees.

Ch1 and start working 2sc in each side of each hdc and hdc2tog (you will be working 2sc in each row’s side), continue working until corner, work corner: [1sc, ch1, 1sc] into the corner.

Continue working each side of the blanket.
On the last side of the blanket, when you reach the corner work corner: [1sc, ch1, 1sc] into the beginning ch-1, ss to 1^st sc. Fasten off and weave in the ends.