Blanket time
How long does it take to crochet a blanket?
A super chunky baby blanket takes about 3 to 6½ hours by its designers’ own figures. In DK the published times disagree so much that we can only give a range: scaled to a single bed, they run from about 24 hours at one designer’s pattern-card pace to 80 to 105 hours at the pace of two big blankets their makers totted up. We haven’t timed any blankets ourselves: every time on this page is one a designer or maker published, and we turned them into minutes per square metre so you can scale them to your size. Granny squares have their own figures further down, at a median of 15 minutes for a plain one.
The quick answer, by blanket size
Find your size, then pick the column that matches your yarn. Super chunky yarn, such as Bernat Blanket on a 10mm hook, is by far the fastest. Its 21 timed blankets worked out at a median of 295 minutes per square metre, or just under 5 hours.
DK and worsted are slower, and the few published figures disagree. Handy Little Me’s pattern card gives an active time of 6 hours 40 minutes for a 76 × 76cm treble (US double crochet) chevron baby blanket in DK, which is 693 minutes per square metre. Attic24’s Lucy put her 2008 ripple blanket, 110 × 170cm in Rowan Cashsoft, at ‘approx 50mins each stripe = 4,250 minutes = 70.83 hours’ for 85 stripes. That’s 2,273 minutes per square metre, more than three times the card rate.
With so few DK figures, and that much spread, we show both ends rather than a typical DK time. Sizes are the ones in our yarn guides: the double is a UK mattress top, and the single is a 120 × 175cm blanket for a single bed. Add any drop over the bed edge to both measurements before you scale.
| Blanket | Size (cm) | Super chunky, median (range) | DK or worsted, pattern-card pace | DK, pace of two big blankets (makers’ totals) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pram or baby | 76 × 76 | 3 (2–4) | 7–8 | 22–29 |
| Lap throw | 102 × 127 | 6 (5–9) | 15–19 | 49–65 |
| Single bed | 120 × 175 | 10 (7–15) | 24–30 | 80–105 |
| Double mattress top | 135 × 190 | 13 (9–18) | 30–37 | 97–128 |
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Where the times come from
We opened each pattern page or blog post and noted the finished size, the yarn and the time the designer gives. Then we divided the time by the blanket’s area. Some times are pattern-card estimates, such as Sarah Maker’s 10-hour active time for her 122 × 137cm chunky throw. Others are the designer’s own account, such as Crochet Dreamz saying a blanket ‘took me only 3.5 hours’.
Three cautions. First, super chunky dominates the sample. 14 of its 21 blankets are from one designer, Crochet Dreamz, who titles her patterns by the hours they take. Second, the quick DK and worsted figures are pattern-card times for just two baby blankets by one designer, Handy Little Me. Her own moss stitch baby blanket page shows the gap: its card gives an active time of 8 hours 20 minutes (9 hours in total), while its FAQ says ‘a simple baby blanket made with a basic stitch pattern and worsted weight yarn might take anywhere from 20 to 40 hours to complete’.
Third, the slow DK figures are two makers’ own totals, not timed sessions. Lucy multiplied her stripe time out, and Sonja Hollands calls her ‘under 200 hours’ a wild guess. Times stated as ‘under’ or ‘about’ were taken at face value, so treat every column as a rough guide.
| Project | Yarn, hook and size | n | Stated time, median (range) | Minutes per m², median (range) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baby-sized blankets: half trebles, doubles, granny stripe, waves, clusters | Super chunky (Bernat Blanket, Baby Blanket and similar), 8–15mm; 64 × 74 to 97 × 117cm | 19 (4) | 4 hours (3–6.5) | 295 (209–425) |
| Throw, half trebles or doubles in chain spaces | Super chunky, 8–12mm; 122 × 137 and 137 × 183cm | 2 (2) | 10 and 12 hours | 359 and 287 |
| Baby blanket, treble chevron or moss stitch | DK 4mm or worsted 5mm; 76 × 76cm | 2 (1) | 6 h 40 min and 8 h 20 min active time (pattern cards) | 693 and 866 |
| Ripple bed blanket, 85 stripes | Rowan Cashsoft, 130m per 50g (a DK length; the post doesn’t name the weight); 110 × 170cm | 1 (1) | 70.83 hours (approx 50 min a stripe) | 2,273 |
| Motif blanket with a long border | DK, US G hook (4mm); 200 × 200cm | 1 (1) | under 200 hours (maker’s ‘wild guess’) | under 3,000 |
| Pixel blanket, 525 mini squares | Worsted (Vanna’s Choice); 160 × 135cm | 1 (1) | over 50 hours for the squares alone | over 1,393 |
| Plain or solid granny square | DK, worsted or aran, 4–5mm; 10–13cm where stated, 5–7 rounds | 7 (5) | 15 min (10–25) | about 930 (15 min at 12.7cm) |
| Fancy granny square, puffs or flowers | Worsted, 5mm; 12.7–14cm | 3 (2) | 40 min (20–45) | 1,240–2,296 |
| Mini pixel square | Worsted; 6.4cm | 1 (1) | 3 min (20 an hour, uninterrupted) | 744 |
| Joining squares, then a 7.5cm border | Bernat Super Value, 5mm; 91 × 137cm before the border | 1 (1) | about 5 hours joining, 4 hours border | 239 for joining (border not converted) |
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How long a granny square takes
Seven published times for a plain or solid granny square have a median of 15 minutes and run from 10 to 25. Where the size is given, the squares are 10 to 13cm. Sarah Maker’s pattern cards give 15 minutes for her classic five-round square and for her 5-inch solid one. Bella Coco estimates 10 minutes for a 4 × 4 inch square, ‘roughly without colour change’. Lion Brand promises your first square ‘in ten minutes or less’.
Fancier squares take longer. Sarah Maker’s sunburst square with puff stitches is 20 minutes, and Handy Little Me’s Carnival Confetti and Ocean Breeze squares of 14cm are 40 and 45 minutes. Very small squares are quick each but add up: Repeat Crafter Me made 20 of her 6.4cm pixel squares an hour when she could work uninterrupted, yet the 525 squares for her pixel blanket took her ‘over 50 hours’.
To estimate a blanket, multiply. Our granny-square count guide gives 216 squares of 10cm for a 120 × 175cm single bed. At 10 minutes a square that’s 36 hours, and at the 15-minute median 54 hours, before you join anything or add a border.
What changes your speed
Stitch height. Taller stitches cover more ground with each one. Handy Little Me puts it simply: half trebles (US half double crochet) work up faster than double crochet (US single crochet), and trebles (US double crochet) faster again. Her two 76 × 76cm baby blanket cards fit that. The treble chevron in DK has an active time of 6 hours 40 minutes, and the moss stitch blanket, made of doubles and chains in a thicker worsted yarn, still has 8 hours 20 minutes.
Yarn weight and hook. In these figures this is the biggest factor. The super chunky blankets on 8 to 15mm hooks ran at 209 to 425 minutes per square metre, against 693 and above for DK and worsted on 4 or 5mm hooks.
Colour changes and ends. Bella Coco’s 10-minute square is ‘roughly without colour change’. Crochet Dreamz notes of her 6-hour granny stripe that ‘there is no fastening off after each color change’. Every colour you cut and rejoin adds two ends to weave in.
Joining and borders. These are separate jobs. On The Crochet Crowd, Mikey says of a friend’s 91 × 137cm granny lapghan: ‘It took me about 5 hours to put the blanket together and then another 4 hours to do a final border.’ That’s about 4 hours of joining per square metre, and the border added 3 inches (7.5cm) to each edge. On a 200 × 200cm motif blanket made from Dedri Uys’s Sophie’s Universe, Sonja Hollands says each round of the border took her ‘at least 2 hours’.
Breaks. Uninterrupted pace and real life differ. Sonja’s wild guess for that blanket is ‘under 200 hours’, made partly on weekly crochet evenings where ‘maybe we get 2 and a half hours effective crocheting done’. Records are another world: Guinness World Records says ‘The fastest crocheter is Lisa Gentry (USA) who crocheted a total of 5,118 stitches in 30 minutes’, in Monroe, Louisiana, on 25 June 2005.
CAL pacing: hours a week
A crochet-along spreads one blanket over weeks, so the useful number is hours per week. Divide the blanket’s area by the weeks, then multiply by a pace from the first table.
Helen Shrimpton’s Tenacity CAL runs for 8 weeks to a 155cm square in 8-ply (DK) yarn on a 4mm hook, 2.4 square metres. At the DK pattern-card pace that’s 3.5 to 4.3 hours a week. At Attic24’s ripple pace it’s about 11 hours. Scheepjes’ Perfect Picnic CAL releases parts weekly from 21 October to 9 December 2026 for a 135 × 105cm blanket in Colour Crafter DK, which is 2 to 2.6 hours a week at the card pace, or about 7 at the ripple pace. Attic24’s Moorland CAL ran for 8 weeks in January and February 2017. Lucy aimed for 110cm wide and gave the length as 170cm in one post and around 150cm in another, which is about 8 to 9 hours a week at her own 2008 ripple pace. MeemaMakes’ Starfall CAL runs from 1 December 2026 into March 2027, about 16 weeks.
Designers say plainly that you don’t have to keep up. Lucy wrote of Moorland that ‘it really doesn’t matter if it takes you a year to make this blanket’. Her Wildshore CAL, which began in January 2026, set 15 stripes in week one and 20 a week for the next five weeks, with all the posts left free online. Her 2008 hexagon blanket took ‘many many hours across seven months’. Our CAL planner lists the crochet-alongs running this winter.
Using your time to price a blanket
If you sell, your hours are usually the biggest cost. Daisy Cottage Designs’ advice is to ‘Time yourself as you make each item. Then pay yourself for each hour you spend’, on top of materials. The National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 an hour from 1 April 2026 (GOV.UK). It isn’t a legal rule for your own sales, but it’s a fair yardstick.
Here’s an example. Say you make a 120 × 175cm single-bed blanket in DK. At the quick pattern-card pace that’s 24 to 30 hours: 24 × £12.71 = £305.04 and 30 × £12.71 = £381.30. At the pace of the two big DK blankets it’s 80 to 105 hours, or £1,016.80 to £1,334.55. The yarn is small beside that: 13 to 19 balls of Stylecraft Special DK at £2.35 each (Wool Warehouse, checked 2 October 2026) is £30.55 to £44.65.
A super chunky baby blanket at the 4-hour median of the 19 we found comes to 4 × £12.71 = £50.84 of time. The Crochet Crowd gives a Canadian example: ‘an afghan could be 20 hours to make plus at least 7 balls of yarn at $40’, which it puts at ‘approximately $300 CDN’. Put your own hours, rate and fees into the price calculator at /tools/crochet-price-calculator/ to see what a price pays you per hour.
Time your own blanket
The best figure is your own. Work one full row, stripe or square with a timer running, then multiply by how many your pattern has. Lucy at Attic24 worked out her 2008 ripple the same way: about 50 minutes a stripe, times 85 stripes.
Time a row from the middle of the blanket, not the first, which is slower while you learn the pattern. Then add the border and joining as separate jobs, and add time for ends if you change colour often.
| Project (designer) | Yarn and hook | Finished size | Stitch | Time as stated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernat Blanket Afghan (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 91 × 102cm | Half trebles and chains | just about 4 hours |
| Braided Loops (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 91 × 114cm | Extended doubles, trebles and chain loops | around 6-1/2 hours |
| Bear baby blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 91 × 99cm | Doubles and trebles | wouldn’t take you more than 4.5 hours |
| 4 Hour Baby Boy Blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Baby Blanket, 10mm | 86 × 94cm | Half trebles in front and back loops | less than 4 hours |
| Waves Afghan (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket, 10mm | 89 × 103cm | Doubles and trebles | hardly 5 hours |
| Granny stripe (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 102 × 104cm | Granny stripe | worked up in 6 hours |
| 6 Hour Blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Baby Blanket, 10mm | 81 × 104cm | Herringbone half trebles | just 6 hours |
| 5 Hour Blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 81 × 99cm | Extended doubles | under 5 hours |
| 3 Hour Afghan (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket, 10mm | 94 × 91cm | Doubles and trebles | about 3 hours including the time to weave in the ends |
| 4.5 Hour Blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 94 × 97cm | Doubles and chain spaces | just 4.5 hours |
| Quick baby blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 89 × 91cm | Doubles and chains | about 4 hours |
| 3.5 Hour Blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Baby Blanket, 10mm | 91 × 94cm | Doubles and trebles | took me only 3.5 hours |
| Striped blanket (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Blanket and Baby Blanket, 10mm | 98 × 104cm | Doubles, trebles, front post trebles | just 5 hours |
| Pansy Lane (Crochet Dreamz) | Bernat Baby Blanket, 10mm | 97 × 117cm | Treble clusters in chain spaces | just around 5 hours |
| Chunky throw (Sarah Maker) | Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick, 12mm | 122 × 137cm | Half trebles | 10 hours active time |
| Baby Bundle blanket (The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Baby Bundle, 8mm | 81 × 81cm | 15 rounds | less than 3 hours |
| Bundle of Love (Jeanne Steinhilber, The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Home Bundle, 8mm | 137 × 183cm | Doubles in chain spaces, in rounds | only took me 12 hours |
| Moss stitch baby blanket (Jeanne Steinhilber, The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Blanket Stripes, 8mm | 74 × 86cm | Doubles and chains in rounds | 3 hours one evening |
| Candy-ghan (The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Baby Blanket | 81 × 81cm | Square in rounds | about 3 hours |
| Rainbow star, or Fluffy Unicorn (The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Blanket Brights, 8mm | 163cm across the points | Six-point star in rounds | took me seriously 9 hours (area not converted) |
| 3 hour baby blanket (Daisy Cottage Designs) | Yarnspirations Forever Fleece, 15mm | 71 × 102cm | Rows | approximately 3 hours (no timer) |
| Switch It Up baby blanket (Bella Coco) | Bernat Baby Blanket, 8mm | 64 × 74cm | Half trebles | as little as 3 hours |
| Chevron baby blanket (Handy Little Me) | DK, 4mm | 76 × 76cm | Treble chevron | 6 h 40 min active time |
| Easy baby blanket (Handy Little Me) | Worsted, 5mm | 76 × 76cm | Moss stitch | 8 h 20 min active time |
| Quick baby blanket (Lucy Kate Crochet) | Sirdar Snuggle Crofter Baby DK, 4 × 50g, 6mm | Not stated (140 chains) | Double trebles (US treble) | around 6 hours, including writing the pattern |
| Ripple blanket, 2008 (Attic24) | Rowan Cashsoft (130m per 50g), 29 balls, plus 5 stripes of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino | 110 × 170cm | Ripple, 85 stripes | approx 50mins each stripe = 4,250 minutes = 70.83 hours |
| Hexagon blanket, 2008 (Attic24) | Not stated | 100 × 150cm | 159 hexagons | haven’t a clue, but many many hours across seven months |
| Sophie’s Alternate Universe (Sonja Hollands, on Look At What I Made) | DK, US G hook | 200 × 200cm | Motifs and border rounds | under 200 hours (her wild guess); border at least 2 hours a round |
| Cupcake pixel blanket (Repeat Crafter Me) | Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice | 160 × 135cm | 525 squares of 6.4cm | 20 squares in 1 hour (uninterrupted); squares over 50 hours, across about two months |
| Relax granny lapghan (Mikey, The Crochet Crowd) | Bernat Super Value, 5mm | 91 × 137cm before the border | Granny squares, whip-stitched | joining about 5 hours, border 4 hours |
| Classic granny square (Sarah Maker) | Worsted, 5mm | 5 rounds | Granny clusters | 15 min active time |
| Solid granny square (Sarah Maker) | Worsted, 5mm | 12.7cm | Solid granny | 15 min active time |
| Sunburst granny square (Sarah Maker) | Worsted, 5mm | 12.7cm | Puffs and clusters | 20 min active time |
| Granny square (Handy Little Me) | Worsted, 5mm | about 12.7cm | Granny clusters | 20 min active time |
| Ocean Breeze square (Handy Little Me) | Worsted, 5mm | 14cm | Fancy granny | 45 min active time |
| Carnival Confetti square (Handy Little Me) | Worsted, 5mm | 14cm | Fancy granny | 40 min active time |
| Basic granny square (Bella Coco) | Paintbox Simply DK, 4mm | Not stated | Granny clusters | 25 min active time on the pattern card |
| Granny square estimate (Bella Coco) | Not stated | 10 × 10cm | Granny clusters | 10 mins (roughly without colour change) |
| Learn to crochet a granny square (Lion Brand) | Not stated | Not stated | Granny clusters | ten minutes or less |
| Granny square ornament (Sunflower Cottage Crochet) | Aran, 4mm | 5 rounds | Granny clusters | about 15 minutes (‘I’ve been told I crochet at lightning speed’) |
| Fastest crocheter (Guinness World Records) | Not stated | Not applicable | Shells | 5,118 stitches in 30 minutes (25 June 2005) |
| Largest crochet square (Guinness World Records) | Not stated | 121.81m² | One square | two years, seven months, and seventeen days (elapsed) |
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Check before you move on
- Time one full row, stripe or square from the middle of the work, then multiply
- Use your real pace with breaks, not your best uninterrupted pace
- Joining and border timed or estimated as separate jobs
- Extra time added for colour changes and weaving in ends
- CAL total hours divided by its weeks, to see the weekly load
- Hours multiplied by an hourly rate before you set a selling price
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Price my make ↗Common questions
How long does it take to crochet a granny square?
About 15 minutes for a plain 10 to 13cm square, going by seven times published by five designers, with a range of 10 to 25 minutes. Squares with puffs or flowers took 20 to 45 minutes.
How long does it take to crochet a baby blanket?
In super chunky yarn, designers state 3 to 6.5 hours, with a median of 4. In DK or worsted the figures disagree: Handy Little Me’s pattern cards give active times of 6 hours 40 minutes and 8 hours 20 minutes for 76 × 76cm, while the same designer’s FAQ allows 20 to 40 hours for a simple baby blanket.
How many hours does a double blanket take to crochet?
Scaling the published times to a 135 × 190cm mattress top gives about 9 to 18 hours in super chunky. In DK the range is wide: 30 to 37 hours at one designer’s pattern-card pace, and about 97 to 128 hours at the pace of two big DK blankets their makers totted up.
Can you crochet a blanket in a day?
A baby blanket in super chunky yarn, yes. Every one of the 19 we found was stated at 6.5 hours or less. A full-size DK blanket, no: even the quick pattern-card pace gives 24 to 30 hours for a single bed.
How much should I charge for a crochet blanket?
Add your hours times an hourly rate to the yarn, then allow for selling fees. As an example, at the £12.71 National Living Wage, the 24 to 105 hours our figures give for a DK single bed is £305.04 to £1,334.55 of time, against £30.55 to £44.65 of Stylecraft Special DK.
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Sources checked 2 October 2026. Label facts come from the linked references; worked purchase examples and arithmetic are our own illustrations.
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