After almost a year in the making, I am excited to finally show you the finished Animal Alphabet Afghan!! This is a free crochet pattern! Since it has so many parts, the patterns and tutorials have been written up in different blog posts. Each animal appliqué has it’s own pattern post (all 26 of them).
The base blanket pattern (not including the border) can be found in a separate blog post as well. The blanket was made using Lion Brand Pound of Love in Antique White using the Even Moss Stitch.
The finished blanket is 37×30 inches (without the border), 41×34 with the 2 inch border all the way around. The border pattern is as follows:
Materials:
– Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice yarn in Fern Green, Raspberry pink, Mustard Yellow, Teracotta Orange, – Colonial Blue, Dusty Purple, and Scarlet Red, and Lion Brand Pound of love in Antique White
– Size G crochet hook
Border Pattern:
With antique white (the same yarn used in the base blanket)…
SC + Chain 1, skip a stitch, SC + Chain 1 next, repeat around. Try your best to make even spaced stitches on the rough edges. Fasten off.
Round 2: With green yarn, SC + Chain 1 in each chain 1 space all the way around. When you get to the corners SC + Chain 1 twice. Fasten off.
Repeat round 2 with each color using the antique white for the last two rounds.
Many of you have already asked how to sew the appliqués and letters on. The trick is that you will want to work in-between the stitches of the blanket… This means you don’t want to work your tapestry needle through to the back of the blanket. The puffy texture that the even moss stitch created will help you do this.
I suggest laying out the appliqués and pinning them down (I used stitch markers to pin them down) before you sew them on. Just to make sure you have them all placed evenly and how you like them.
Sew the appliqués on to the blanket by stitching along the edges of each animal. You will have to switch colors as you go if the animal is made up of different colors around the edges.
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Gorgeous blanket with all the funny animals and letters. This blanket will make little children happy, who are learning to read. Thanks for the pattern.
Love and hugs, Margaret
Lovely blanket! It really is amazing!
OMGosh! What an absolute treasure. So much work but so adorable. Thank you so much for the pattern. It is so generous of you to share it! What a special person you are! God bless [email protected]
THUD! Wow, what an amazing blanket! Thank for your generosity in sharing the patterns with us! 🙂
Wow! I am impressed. That is a beautiful blanket and I can only imagine the hours you spent working on it. Thank you much for so generously sharing the pattern. hmmmmm….grandchild due in July…I wonder if there's time enough to pull this off! Well, he won't be reading for several years, so probably! LOL
Awesome! Your blanket looks stunning all put together!
Love this! I need to make it!! Thank you so much!
Love!
I like it very much! I will save it in my to do list.
Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely awesome!!!! I downloaded each of the letters as you released them- this is SO cute!! Great job!!
Absolutely awesome!!!! I downloaded each of the letters as you released them- this is SO cute!! Great job!!
Ah so beautiful, just love it! You are so talented and so generous. I know a special young lady that would love one! Think I'm going to have to teach my friend to make one too!
WOW, this is absolutely stunning! 🙂
Congratulations on completing it! Its beautiful! What a labor of love.
Absolutely Love this!
Beautiful Afghan. Is your afghan one piece or you crocheted squares and sewed them together?
Gorgeous! I pinned this to my afghans board. So cute!
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Thanks for sharing your patterns so willingly. Quick question – could you please tell me the exact stitches and how many rows you did for the base of this blanket? From what I can tell, you used 130 sts, but I'm unsure about the rows.
Thanks,
Debbie
I popped on this thread with the same question. Did you get an answer?
I LOVE it!!
I just love this! I remember having a poster in my room with animals and letters and have wanted to get one for my baby, but now that I have found your patterns… of course – It has to be crocheted!
Thank you, your site is lovely!
I am in the process of making this blanket and have had no problems until I got to crocheting the unicorn. I have tried numerous times but am having a problem.The instructions say chain 10, DC in 3rd chain from hook,HDC, DC, TC in last 5, (not sure what you mean by last 5). If you can help me out with this it would be great. Thank you
TC in the last 5 chains.
I’m so excited, I just finished all the aminals tonight. Tomorrow begins the sewing on process, then on to the letters.
I’ve made blankets for all the new babies my friends and family have had for years. This time, it’s my turn. I’m so happy to have found your blog and I truly appreciate your generosity in sharing your patterns. I can’t wait to wrap my baby boy up in this gorgeous blanket in just four short months.
Oh Wow! So I haven’t even been crocheting a year (started in October) and I decided to take on this for my new niece (didn’t know it was a niece until yesterday when she was born). Well it’s taking me forever!! I think I did too many chain stitches at the start and now my blanket is humongous and taking forever! I didn’t realise the moss stitch was so small/thin so far I have done 102 rows and just over half way to make the blanket square. Although I am glad I’ve stuck it out. It’s a gorgeous blanket and will be perfect for winter as it’s such a thick blanket. So far I’m up to my 4th ball of yarn But it’s so soft and snuggly. Now she’s here I have to finish it lol. I’m so glad that you have created and shared this blanket pattern. It’s amazing! Only problem is…I want my daughter to have one now. Thank you so much for sharing xx
When I first saw the animal appliques, my first thought was to apply them to squares; however, I was thinking that I would use the Tunisian crochet stitch with a double ended crochet hook so I can use two colors to make both sides a different color. Then I could see the squares together in a checkered pattern. The appliques are so cute! I’m using the monkey appliques to make favors for a baby shower. So cute!
Wow! This blanket is adorable!! I’d have to make it in faith…hopefully there’s more grandchildren coming!!
Thank you for all the lovely patterns and demos. I have made loads of your items for my grandbabies they are so modern and different I have everyone asking me to make something.
Really love the border on this and was going to use it on my ‘farm’ blanket but have tried it and just can’t get it right… Can you tell me the name of this stitch or give me the link to a video that I could watch?
Thanks again
Thank you so much for this beautiful pattern. I just finished it, and love it.
Has anyone played around with making the appliques interactive? For example sew something onto the blanket so the toddler can attach the appliques against the letters? Velcro came to mind but with crochet that is not ideal, it would also have to be toddler safe. Thanks!
Just a reminder to everyone. All you lefties out there like me. The creatures will be reversed. No biggy, just move the letters to the other side. Just something to be aware of.
I just finished making all the pieces, just have to sew it all together. Thank you for making such clear and straight forward patterns for the animals – I was impressed every time I finished one.