Granny Stitch Crochet Afghan Pattern

This granny stitch crochet afghan is easy to crochet with all your yarn leftovers from other projects. Make it any size you want, from a baby blanket to bed size or anything in between. Check out this easy granny stitch crochet blanket pattern with ideas for making it your own.

How to Crochet a Granny Stitch Blanket

If you know how to crochet granny stitch in rows already, you know pretty much all you need to knot in order to make a granny stitch crochet afghan. I sort of dove right in without a lot of knowledge of the right way to do things, which is also fine.

I knew I wanted to make a granny stitch scrap afghan, and I decided the way to do it would be to do one stripe of two rows and one stripe of one row of a color repeating.

Originally, I think I was shooting for about 5 feet/60 inches/152 cm but the actual blanket came out about 56 inches/142 cm instead. Which is totally fine because it’s meant to be my office blanket. But if you need yours to come out a particular size, you’ll want to so a swatch to be more accurate.

Of course you can use any weight of yarn you have on hand. Mine is all worsted/medium/weight 4 yarn because that’s what I use the most of so I have the most leftovers. You’ll also need a corresponding crochet hook for the weight of yarn you want to use. Mine is a Furls size I (similar style). Pick a hook you like because you’ll be doing this for a long time.

I started working on this last year some time and only made it about 12 inches/30/5 cm in before I stopped working on it because the weather got warm. I picked it back up as a stress crafting project and stitched up the rest in about six weeks!

Granny Stitch Crochet Afghan Pattern

Here I am showing a little swatch because I didn’t take pictures when I started working on this easy crochet granny stitch blanket, but it’s the same process regardless of size.

I started with a row of foundation single crochet. The blanket has 164 stitches; the swatch is 17. I like to use a multiple of 3 plus 2 for granny stitch. This row takes care of your chain and the foundation row, so you can go on with your granny stitches from here.

For the first row, turn the work and chain 2. Then work two double crochet stitches in the stitch next to the hook.

Skip two stitches, then work three double crochets in the next stitch. Repeat across.

For my pattern this counts as two rows, so it’s time to change color.

Turn the work and grab the new color into the loop on the hook. Chain 2. Skip over the last set of stitches you worked on the last row and work three double crochets in the space where you skipped stitches.

Repeat this across. When I got to the last set of granny stitches I chained three at the end to cover the space above the stitches, but it would be more proper to just work one double crochet in the chain from the beginning of the previous row. Try it both ways and see what you prefer.

Here I’m changing colors again in the same way: turn, grab the new yarn and chain 2. Then work two double crochets into that chain from the previous row, skip over the granny stitch cluster from the row below, work into the space between and so on across.

For this one I’m doing two rows of granny stitch before changing colors.

Then I switch colors again.

I’m not showing it here but to finish the granny stitch crochet blanket I did a row of single crochet so it would match the beginning a bit better.

Granny Stitch Crochet Blanket Ideas

Of course you don’t have to make your easy granny stitch crochet blanket as a stash buster. I was willing to repeat colors but it took a lot more yarn (each row is about 20 yards) than I expected so keep that in mind if you’re making a big blanket in one color or many.

This would be fun to make in wider stripes, or using multicolored yarn, and it would be pretty in a single color, too, if you want something more subtle. Just remember to save lots of time for weaving in ends (I had 156!).

Mine came out exactly the way I wanted and I’m so happy to have it done so I can use it all winter long.

Do you have a favorite stitch pattern for stash busting? If you want to use a lot of yarn fast, I hope you’ll give this granny stitch crochet afghan a try!