Blanket Post
Ok, so after trying four times to just edit my previous post to add pics, and LJ NOT COOPERATING, I'm just posting this as a new one. See my previous post for what this was all about.
So I didn’t exactly use an exact pattern for this particular blanket, but it’s based on one I made last year using this pattern: (http://www.bernat.com/data/pattern/pdf/instruction_1796.en_US.pdf) . It’s essentially the same except I didn’t plan out how many stitches wide and I didn’t use the self-striping yarn this time. Instead I sort of winged it. I used Caron Simply Soft Brites, one skein of each color and a one-pound skein of white.
Holding one strand each of white and color, on size 13 needles I cast on 4 stitches.
Row 1 (WS): Knit
Row 2 (Inc Row): K2, YO, K to end of row.
Repeat last row until blanket is about as wide as you would like it to be.
Next row (RS): K2, YO, K2tog, K to end of row.
Repeat last row.
Next row (Dec Row): K1, K2tog, YO, K2tog, K to end of row.
Repeat last row until there are 4 stitches left on needle.
Next row (RS): Knit. Cast off.
This is such an easy pattern and can make all sizes of blankets. Use all the same color or change colors whenever you feel like it. I knit mine in the order they would appear in the color spectrum. I started with the pink, and when I decided I was ready to change to yellow, I waited until I was ready to knit on the RS and then cut only the pink yarn and tied on the yellow, and just kept on holding the white throughout as I changed from one color to the next. I counted how many garter ridges I had of pink and tried to keep about the same on each color (22 ridges) so that the stripes were pretty much the same thickness. But you could make the stripes all different widths and that would be really cute for a baby too. You could even adapt the pattern and stripe it like the HP movie scarves for a “house blanket”.
Anyway, that’s Baby B’s Blanket. I totally fell in love with the Caron Simply Soft Brites, the colors are so vivid, and the yarn is SO SOFT. I still have close to half a skein of each of the colors, with a little less left of the green (since that was the widest part of the blanket), so I’m thinking that I might use those remnants to try to knit my first tank top this month. We’ll see.
So I didn’t exactly use an exact pattern for this particular blanket, but it’s based on one I made last year using this pattern: (http://www.bernat.com/data/pattern/pdf/instruction_1796.en_US.pdf) . It’s essentially the same except I didn’t plan out how many stitches wide and I didn’t use the self-striping yarn this time. Instead I sort of winged it. I used Caron Simply Soft Brites, one skein of each color and a one-pound skein of white.
Holding one strand each of white and color, on size 13 needles I cast on 4 stitches.
Row 1 (WS): Knit
Row 2 (Inc Row): K2, YO, K to end of row.
Repeat last row until blanket is about as wide as you would like it to be.
Next row (RS): K2, YO, K2tog, K to end of row.
Repeat last row.
Next row (Dec Row): K1, K2tog, YO, K2tog, K to end of row.
Repeat last row until there are 4 stitches left on needle.
Next row (RS): Knit. Cast off.
This is such an easy pattern and can make all sizes of blankets. Use all the same color or change colors whenever you feel like it. I knit mine in the order they would appear in the color spectrum. I started with the pink, and when I decided I was ready to change to yellow, I waited until I was ready to knit on the RS and then cut only the pink yarn and tied on the yellow, and just kept on holding the white throughout as I changed from one color to the next. I counted how many garter ridges I had of pink and tried to keep about the same on each color (22 ridges) so that the stripes were pretty much the same thickness. But you could make the stripes all different widths and that would be really cute for a baby too. You could even adapt the pattern and stripe it like the HP movie scarves for a “house blanket”.
Anyway, that’s Baby B’s Blanket. I totally fell in love with the Caron Simply Soft Brites, the colors are so vivid, and the yarn is SO SOFT. I still have close to half a skein of each of the colors, with a little less left of the green (since that was the widest part of the blanket), so I’m thinking that I might use those remnants to try to knit my first tank top this month. We’ll see.