Free Ocean Themed Blanket Pattern

Dive into a sea of color and creativity with this Ocean-Themed Granny Square Blanket crochet pattern! This design brings together classic granny squares and ocean-inspired appliqués to create a playful, textured blanket full of fun sea creatures.

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Overview

This Ocean Afghan is comprised of granny squares and ocean themed appliques. The granny squares are made separately from the sea creatures. The appliques are sewn directly onto the square in which I have a video tutorial showing how to do so while leaving the back clean.

All together, the blanket makes a good size for a baby blanket or to have on display. The finished dimensions measure 30″ x 35″.

Materials

Yarn for Granny Squares

3 skeins Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in Aquamarine 

3 skeins Lion Brand Vanna’s Sky Blue 

3 skeins Lion Brand Vanna’s Colonial Blue 

6 skeins Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in White (You will have some left over of each skein that will be used for some designs and also the white left over will be used to join the granny squares together)

Yarn Colors for Appliques

(amount needed for each yarn/color listed is barely a full skein of yarn, you can certainly used scrap/left over yarn on hand) 

Worsted weight yarn in the following colors: Red, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Black, Navy, Light Purple, Light Green, Dark Green, Mustard, (I used both the Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice and Lops&Threads Impecable brand for the sea horse) Pink Grapefruit (Vanna’s Choice), Red Heart Cotton Scrubby (optional for coral) 

Crochet Hooks
J hook (5.0mm) G hook (4.0 mm) E hook (3.5mm) 

Other

Scissors and tapestry needle 

6mm safety eyes for designs (optional – can be substituted by using black yarn to sew on eyes) 

Instructions

Using the patterns below, make 15 white granny squares, 5 aquarmarine squares, 5 sky blue squares, and 5 colonial blue squares. Make one of each applique and sew onto white granny squares. Join granny squares with the method you prefer following the layout below. The method done for the afghan shown in the picture is an invisible seam method. 

Complete with a border by single crocheting all around with white, making sure to sc 3x into each corner.

How to sew on appliqués: https://youtu.be/CRpGMPp0ALc?si=MqRzBS8iD0cgDYvH

How to join using the invisible seam/mattress stitch: https://youtu.be/It_oIqXZ920?si=bTwgm-p5nC8yY6zE

Solid Granny Square Pattern

Materials

Worsted weight yarn

J/6.00mm crochet hook

Tapestry needle & Scissors

Pattern Notes

– Chain 3 counts as a double crochet

– Square measures 6” x 6”.

– I tend to crochet loosely, you may need to go up a hook size or two to achieve the same measurements.

Pattern

Round 1: Magic Ring, ch 3, dc into ring, ch 2, *2 dc into ring, ch 2, repeat

from * 2 more times, join to beginning ch 3

Round 2: Ch 3, *dc in each st across across, [2dc, ch 2, 2dc] all into corner chain 2 space, repeat from * 3 more times, join to beginning ch 3

Round 3-5: Ch 3, *dc in each st across, [2dc, ch 2, dc] all in ch 2 space, repeat from *3 more times, dc into remaining stitches to complete the round , join to ch 3

Fasten off and weave in ends.

Photo shows how many double crochets across should be in each row for one side of the square.

Ocean Themed Applique Patterns

• Sea Turtle
• Crab
• Jelly Fish
• Dolphin
• Starfish
• Coral
• Sea Horse
• Sting Ray
• Sea Shell
• Shark
• Puffer Fish
• Tropical Fish
• Octopus
• Whale
• Clown Fish