Blankets in Hayfield Baby Chunky - 4764 - Downloadable PDF

Hayfield Baby Chunky Blankets – Pattern 4764: Four Beautiful Knitted Baby Blanket Designs

Pattern 4764 from Hayfield is a downloadable PDF knitting pattern featuring four distinct baby blanket designs, each worked in Hayfield Baby Chunky yarn. Rated as intermediate in difficulty, this collection offers a wonderful variety of textures and decorative stitch techniques, making it an ideal project for knitters who are comfortable with basic knitting but ready to explore more intricate stitch patterns. All four blankets are knitted on 6.5mm (UK3 / USA 10.5) knitting needles, and the chunky weight yarn ensures a satisfying, relatively quick knit with a beautifully cosy result.

About Hayfield Baby Chunky Yarn

Hayfield Baby Chunky is a soft, chunky weight yarn specifically designed with babies in mind, making it an excellent choice for blankets, wraps, and nursery accessories. Each ball weighs 100g, and the yarn's gentle texture is well-suited to the delicate stitch patterns featured across these four designs. The yarn is available in a range of soft, nursery-friendly shades, and each blanket in this pattern uses a specific recommended shade to showcase the stitch texture to its best advantage.

The Four Blanket Designs

1. Textured Blanket

The Textured Blanket measures approximately 89 x 91 cm (35 x 36 inches), making it a generous, near-square blanket ideal for a pram, cot, or play mat. This design is worked in Hayfield Baby Chunky shade 413 and requires 6 x 100g balls of yarn.

As the name suggests, this blanket focuses on creating a rich, tactile surface through the combination of knit and purl stitches arranged in a repeating textured pattern. Textured knitting techniques such as these are a hallmark of classic baby knitwear, adding visual interest and a satisfying depth to the fabric without the need for complex cable or lace techniques. The resulting blanket is thick, warm, and visually appealing from both sides.

• Finished size: 89 x 91 cm (approximately)
• Yarn shade: Hayfield Baby Chunky shade 413
• Yarn quantity: 6 x 100g balls
• Key techniques: Textured knit and purl stitch combinations

2. Leaf Blanket

The Leaf Blanket is the largest design in the collection, measuring a generous 96 x 96 cm (37¾ x 37¾ inches) — a perfect square format. It is worked in Hayfield Baby Chunky shade 408 and also requires 6 x 100g balls of yarn.

This design incorporates a leaf motif stitch pattern, which is typically achieved through a combination of yarn-over increases and decrease stitches such as slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over (psso) and knit 2 together. These techniques create the characteristic leaf shapes within the fabric, adding an elegant, nature-inspired decorative element. Leaf patterns are a popular choice for baby blankets as they give a delicate, heirloom quality to the finished piece while remaining achievable for intermediate-level knitters.

• Finished size: 96 x 96 cm (approximately)
• Yarn shade: Hayfield Baby Chunky shade 408
• Yarn quantity: 6 x 100g balls
• Key techniques: Leaf motif stitch pattern using yarn-overs and decreases

3. Bobble Blanket

The Bobble Blanket measures approximately 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 inches), making it a compact and practical size, perfect for a pram or moses basket. This design uses Hayfield Baby Chunky shade 409 and requires 4 x 100g balls of yarn — the most economical of the four