I’m delighted to announce that the ‘Love in Every Stitch’
blanket is now live on my website.
When designing this blanket, I wanted the maker to be able
to customise it to reflect themselves or the person they are making the blanket
for. To be in full control of the size and be able to choose colours to suit
the person, mood or soundings.
This blanket has a fantastic corner-to-corner construction,
which gives you full control of how large you would like it to be. It can be
made into a cot blanket, sofa, lap, double or single bed all you have to do is
repeat the increase pattern repeats until you reach the desired size, then
start decreasing until the end and you will produce a beautiful square blanket.
The slip stitch pattern is easy to memorise and it complements the garter
stitch border, not to mention that it shows up beautifully when worked in colour.
The blanket is completely reversible; it looks equally stunning on both sides.
In the pattern, you will also find where to find inspiration
for colour: mood, weather, name or even month of birth, this is where I took the
inspiration for the two blankets.
The smaller blanket is knitted in Sublime Baby Cashmere
Merino Silk DK and is made for the cutest little girl called Ella who was born
in April.
The colours of the name Ella are blue, green and pink. The colours of April are yellow, red, white
I decided to get rid of the red as I thought it was too
strong for a baby, but I stuck with all the others and added few complementary
ones.
The bigger blanket, knitted in Rowan Pure Wool Worsted, is for a beautiful young lady called Sukie who is 8 years old. Of course, Sukie is at that age that I can just simply ask
what colours she likes, however I still wanted to combine the colours of her
birth month, May, which are yellow, red and green. I have chosen green to go
with Sukie’s chosen colours.
In both blankets, I’ve chosen cream as the complementary
colour throughout, but please experiment with colour and see what combination
you like best. I’m planning on knitting one with just grey and mustard.
However many colours you choose for your blanket, make sure
you carry the yarn up the work with you and not cutting and weaving in at every
colour change. You can carry yarn up 4 rows, any more than that will cause the
yarn to form loops on the edges.
It’s important to get the edges nice and neat when taking
the yarn with you. I have found the method below the best for producing neat
edge.
Don't cut the yarn every time you switch
colours, just run the colour you're not using along the side of your blanket.
- Just keep picking up the different colours as you alternate (fig. 1).
- Do this neatly so it will barely show, just pick up the yarn to be worked next from behind the other strand (fig. 2).
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
You will find the pattern for 'Love in Every Stitch' on:
Happy knitting,
Anna x