5 Free Cat Crochet Blanket Patterns (Linked to Each Designer)

Each of these free cat crochet blanket patterns is a real published pattern with written instructions or a free graph, linked to the designer who wrote it. Four are picture blankets and one is a textured stitch that makes cat shapes without any graph at all.

There are three ways to get a cat into a blanket: work it from a C2C graph, carry colours through the row, or use a stitch that makes the shape by itself. Each is represented below.

Choosing a method

C2C is the easiest way to follow a picture. Row colourwork gives a denser fabric but needs bobbins. A textured stitch needs neither, and sizes to whatever blanket you want.

Method	What you track	Fabric
C2C from a graph	Blocks per colour, per row	Slightly open, diagonal
Row colourwork	A graph plus carried strands	Dense, double thickness
Textured cat stitch	Nothing — just the repeat	Single colour, any size

1. The Cat Stitch

Not a blanket but the stitch itself — a texture that reads as rows of little cats, worked from ordinary stitches. Nordic Hook’s tutorial is the place to start if you want cats in the fabric rather than a picture of a cat on top of it. Once you have the repeat you can size it to a blanket of any dimension without following a graph at all. Free pattern: The Cat Stitch.

2. Paw Print Blanket by Jo to the World

Two-colour single crochet colourwork with the contrast strand carried along the wrong side, making four paw prints up the height of a 52 by 81 inch blanket. Jo works it in super bulky chenille on a 6.5 mm hook, and uses bobbins so several prints can be worked in the same row without dragging one long strand across. Rated easy. Free pattern: Paw Print Blanket.

3. Crochet Love Paw Print Blanket

Four separate C2C panels spelling L, O, V, E with a paw print motif, each 20 by 27.5 inches, sewn into a 44 by 55 inch blanket. Melissa Hassler’s panel approach means you track one letter’s graph at a time rather than a single 44-inch chart. Worsted on a 6 mm hook. Advanced beginner. Free pattern: Crochet Love Paw Print Blanket.

4. Cute Paw Print C2C Blanket

Sixteen C2C squares — eight in each of two colours — arranged in a checkerboard and joined with a join-as-you-go border, so there is no separate seaming stage. Amber uses Pound of Love worsted on a 4 mm hook for a 66-inch square blanket, which needs around 1,530 yards of each colour. Rated intermediate. Free pattern: Cute Paw Print C2C Blanket.

5. C2C Cat Lady Blanket

Twelve 18-inch C2C squares with alternating cat designs in a checkerboard, joined by the border rather than sewn. At 54 by 72 inches finished this is a full throw, and Amber provides six different graphs free so the cats vary rather than repeating. Worsted on a 4 mm hook. Intermediate. Free pattern: C2C Cat Lady Blanket.

The 5 patterns compared

Pattern	Designer	Hook	Size	Yarn	Level
The Cat Stitch	Nordic Hook	Any	Any size	Any	Tutorial
Paw Print Blanket	Jo to the World	6.5 mm	52″ × 81″	Super bulky chenille	Easy
Crochet Love Paw Print Blanket	Melissa Hassler	6.0 mm	44″ × 55″	Worsted	Adv. beginner
Cute Paw Print C2C Blanket	Amber, Divine Debris	4.0 mm	66″ square	Worsted	Intermediate
C2C Cat Lady Blanket	Amber, Divine Debris	4.0 mm	54″ × 72″	Worsted	Intermediate

Frequently Asked Questions

Colourwork or C2C for a picture blanket?

C2C is easier to follow — you count blocks from a graph and never carry a colour far. Row-by-row colourwork, as in the Paw Print Blanket, gives a denser fabric but you have to manage carried strands and bobbins. Both appear here; C2C is the one to start with.

What are bobbins for and do I need them?

Small spools of the contrast colour, one per motif, so you are not dragging a single long strand across the whole row between prints. On a blanket with four paw prints per row they make the difference between a tidy back and a tangle. Wind your own from a cardboard offcut.

How much yarn does a picture blanket take?

A lot, and in specific colours: the 66-inch paw print C2C needs about 1,530 yards of each of two colours. Because the colours are fixed by the graph you cannot substitute freely partway through, so buy the full amount in one dye lot at the start.

Can I make a cat blanket without following a graph?

Yes — use a textured stitch instead. The cat stitch produces rows of small cat shapes from ordinary stitches, so you size it to any dimension you like and never look at a chart. It is the least demanding route to a cat blanket by some distance.

If you have never worked from a graph, start with the cat stitch — no chart, any size. For a proper picture blanket, the panel-based C2C patterns are easier to keep your place in than one large graph. Each link goes to the designer’s own page.