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Scallop Stitch Baby Afghan Completed!

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Yeah, it is done, and I love how it turned out. The finished sized is 35 inches wide by 42 inches long. I ended up using 2 skeins of Bernat Baby Softee in Baby Denim Marl and 3 in Pale Blue, though I had plenty of left over yarn in both colors. I used an I size crochet hook, and alternated 5 stripes, starting and ending with the Pale Blue yarn. Each striped section is made up of 19 rows of scallop stitch. The entire afghan is made using this stitch except for the straight sides of the blanket, which I finished off using Pale Blue yarn and just a simple single crochet down each side.

The scallop stitch is great because you end up with a really nice texture and no holes like you get if you do granny square or V-stitch. Hopefully, the baby who receives this will get years of use from it.

Author: Tammy

Welcome to the Crafty Princess Diaries, my weblog and site where I get to blab about my passion for crafts, primarily jewelry making, and my crafting career. My name is Tammy Powley, and I decided to call my blog the Crafty Princess Diaries because of this very dorky picture I have of myself and because my husband often refers to me as “the princess and the pea,” which is just another way to say that I tend to be particular sometimes. Along with this weblog, I have a number of jewelry making books published.

3 Comments

  1. This is just the prettiest afghan! I just love the stitch….and the alternating stripes….that kind of thing just speaks to my heart.

    I so enjoy following you, and read your posts every day – you always have something to share and give. An inspiration for my fledgling blog and site!

    Thanks for sharing this!

    Trish

  2. I was wondering if you could provide me with the pattern of the scallop blanket I had a pattern but lost it.

  3. Hi Angela – If you look at the first paragraph, I provide the info as far as how many rows, etc., but basically, I just repeated the stitch over and over again. I have a few different stitch dictionaries, but if you go to lionbrand.com there is a web-based stitch dictionary. I used the scallop stitch that includes 5 double crochets for each scallop stitch. There are various of the scallop that use 3, etc.

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