Forest Mouse Crochet Baby Blanket Pattern – Written Row by Row + Chart

Forest Mouse crochet baby blanket pattern – a 25.5 x 29.5 in (64 x 74 cm) picture blanket of a little teal mouse on a pink mushroom with a butterfly, worked in double crochet (UK) / single crochet (US) with colour changes.

What you get (PDF)

• every row written out as simple colour counts

• the full colour chart

• round-by-round instructions for the striped border

• UK terms with US in brackets throughout

• the yarn, shade and amount for each colour

• guidance for left-handed crocheters

• a photo guide to the intarsia colour change

Materials: Sirdar Snuggly DK (55% nylon, 45% acrylic, 165 m / 50 g) in six colours, 9 skeins in total; any DK yarn can be used. 4.00 mm crochet hook.

Tension: 18 dc (UK) / sc (US) and 22 rows = 10 cm (4 in).

You need to know how to: work double crochet (UK) / single crochet (US) and treble (UK) / double crochet (US), and change colour (intarsia).

Updated October 2026: now with full written row-by-row instructions.