Baby Sea Turtle

This baby blanket is the fourth design in my Baby Ocean & OthersseriesIt has my son’s favorite animal: sea turtles!

Interlocking & Mosaic

Choose your preferred colorwork technique: interlocking crochet or overlay mosaic crochet. You’ll receive both options, so why not try both?

Each file contains the fully written pattern and charts.

Size

With the interlocking crochet technique they begin with 60 windows in the foundation row. The mosaic crochet option is 121 stitches wide.

If you meet gauge, each square will be about 30″ / 76cm. You can use these individually as baby blankets or join them together to create a large one-of-a-kind blanket!

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Original Blog Entry

My four-year-old son LOVES sea turtles. He really like all ocean-things but there’s something special about a baby sea turtle.

For months, every time we took the (chicken) egg carton out of the fridge he would want to come play with the baby sea turtles (tv shows always show baby sea turtles hatching from their eggs). It was a bit hard to bake with him during that phase. Usually we like to make cookies and cake but it was hard for me to keep the eggs safe from his quick, but not-so-nimble hands.

I made two fluffy blankets for my kids this week:

Two fluffy baby blankets finished this week

My fluffy interlocking crochet version of Baby Sea Turtle.

Gifts for my kids

This little blanket will be for him. I used my preferred technique, interlocking crochet (also called Locked Filet Mesh or LFM) because I can crochet it much quicker than when I do mosaic crochet. This blanket took me a week – I am sure some of you will be much quicker and many of you will take much longer for a blanket of this size. That’s ok!

My little Remi next to his new blanket. It stretches on the line but is about 33″ square.

Discontinued Yarn

I used a discontinued yarn for my sample. It was on clearance and I love a good bargain. The fluffy yarn I used (Premiere Pixie Dust) is considered a worsted weight yarn but the labels suggests you use a 5.5 mm hook. I really like the stitches to be quite small with interlocking crochet because it keeps those chain-gap-squares small and then the other color doesn’t show through too much, so I used a 5 mm hook.

Because it is so fluffy it does make the details of the design a bit less defined. And even though I used a 5 mm hook instead of my favorite 4.5 mm hook, I still used less than 500 yards per color. My finished square, including the simple single crochet border, is 33″ square.

You can use any weight yarn for my blankets, just make sure you use an appropriately-sized hook.

I love a good sale on yarn!

EBook Confirmed

If you’ve seen the previous patterns in this series, then you already know I created an eBook on Ravelry called “Baby Ocean & Others“. All of the patterns in this eBook have a chart size of 121 x 121 and have an ocean theme.

2024 Update: the EBook is available on both Ravelry and Etsy, check out the link below for more details.

Chart Information

And, as always, the pattern is written up for interlocking crochet and overlay mosaic crochet. The two files each include written instructions and an appropriate chart.

The chart that is attached to the mosaic instructions has X’s where you need to do your dropped double crochets. I hope to make my own tutorial video for using the chart with X’s soon. But for now it is mostly useful for people who are already familiar with that style.

Natalie Caruso has been amazingly helpful in creating these charts with X’s for you guys. Thank you, Natalie!

The wrong side, using interlocking crochet. If you use the mosaic technique it will be striped on the back instead.

Buy it Now!

You can get “Baby Sea Turtle” on Etsy or Ravelry. Use code, “BABY21” to get 20% off* all my baby blanket patterns! (expired)

Save More!

The eBook saves you 30% versus buying each blanket individually!

Important Pattern Details for “Baby Sea Turtle”

Like all my designs, you’ll receive one file for the interlocking crochet technique and one file for the overlay mosaic crochet technique for this pattern.

On the to-do list: I will be updating this pattern (and many others) to have a second mosaic crochet option where I’ll adjust the charts to be solid. Read more about the different techniques at https://ashleeslint.com/tutorials/interlocking-and-mosaic-crochet/.

Interlocking Crochet

Interlocking crochet is a colorwork technique where you create two layers of mesh locked together. You work one row at a time, alternating between the two contrasting colors.

Interlocking crochet / LFM crochet file includes:

  • line-by-line written pattern
  • instructions on reading a chart (to be added with next update)
  • a one-page chart

Details

  • Chart is 121 x 121
  • Gauge: 16 DC x 8 rows = 4”
  • 30″ x 30″ / 76cm
  • 4.5 mm hook (US7)
  • Worsted weight yarn (1050 – 1075 yards total)
    • Main color (MC) (first color, turtle and shadows) – 525 yards plus 25 for optional border
    • Accent color (AC) (background) – 525 yards

Original Overlay Mosaic Crochet

Baby Dolphin was originally published in July 2021. I used the same chart for both the interlocking crochet option and the overlay mosaic crochet option. With this colorwork option you can see the interlocking mesh dots even when you use the overlay mosaic crochet technqiue.

Read more about these techniques at https://ashleeslint.com/tutorials/interlocking-and-mosaic-crochet/.

Mosaic Crochet file includes:

  • line-by-line written pattern
  • instructions on reading a chart (coming in update along with a one-page chart marked with X’s (good for viewing on a screen)).
  • a multi-page chart marked with X’s (better for printing)

Details

  • Chart is 121 x 121
  • Gauge: 16 sc blo stitches x 16 rows = 4”
  • 30″ x 30″ / 76cm
  • 4.5 mm hook (US7)
  • Worsted weight yarn (1170 – 1370 yards)
    • Main color (turtle and shadows) – 585 yards
    • Contrasting color (background) – 585 yards
    • Optional envelope border – 200 yards

Adjusted Overlay Mosaic Crochet

To-Do List: the adjusted overlay mosaic crochet option.