It's been a while... I have taken a little knitting time-out. Or rather a blogging time-out. But here is another project I just finished:
My coworker is expecting her first baby, and I was trying to think of something to make for the special occasion. I decided on knitting a blanket. Since she is not much of a girly-girl, I tried to find colors that were appropriate for a baby blanket, yet not too cutesy. And I found some really great, bright colors!
The blanket is made of different squares. I came up with the color scheme and tried to either find patterns for designs or make them up myself. I tried to find things that were somewhat meaningful to the baby's parents. Here is my design:
| “2008” | “flower” | “ladybug” | “horseshoe” | “star” |
| “ASL” | “1” | “2” | “3” | “paw” |
| “sun” | “4” | “5” | “6” | “ABC” |
| “guitar” | “7” | “8” | “9” | “heart” |
| “X” | “O” | “X” | “O” | “X” |
The patterns for the individual squares are at the end of this post.
I bought some pretty cool looking bright colors and started knitting. I thought I would do the whole blanket all at once...
...but soon found myself all entangled with five different yarns and started over.
We spent three weeks with the in-laws over the summer, and I did a lot of knitting there. I knitted one column at a time. I had brought some graphing paper and had everybody in the family help with the different designs. Some came out better than others, but overall, I was pretty satisfied.
Once I had finished the five columns, I sewed them together. The columns made the piecing together a lot easier than having all the individual squares to sew together.
Individual patterns used for this blanket:
2008:
Cast on 36 sts.
Rows 1-6: knit acrossP2, k32, p2.
P2, k25, p4, k3, p2.
P2, k24, p2, k2, p2, k2, p2.
P2, k25, p4, k3, p2.
P2, k24, p2, k2, p2, k2, p2.
P2, k25, p4, k3, p2.
P2, k19, p4, k9, p2.
P2, k18, p2, k2, p2, k8, p2.
P2, k17, p2, k4, p2, k7, p2.
P2, k18, p2, k2, p2, k8, p2.
P2, k19, p4, k9, p2.
P2, k11, p4, k17, p2.
P2, k10, p2, k2, p2, k16, p2.
P2, k7, p2, k4, p2, k15, p2.
P2, k10, p2, k2, p2, k16, p2.
P2, k11, p4, k17, p2.
P2, k2, p8, k22, p2.
P2, k3, p2, k27, p2.
P2, k5, p2, k25, p2.
P2, k2, p2, k3, p2, k23, p2.
P2, k4, p4, k24, p2.
P2, k32, p2.
Next 6 rows: k across.Bind off 36.
Heart:
Ladybug:
ABC:
ASL: I Love You:
Horse shoe:
Star:
Sun:
Flower:
Guitar:
Numbers 1-9:
"1"
Cast on 36 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p30, k3
Row 6: knit across
Rows 7 & 8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
Row 10: knit across
Row 11-16: repeat rows 9 & 10
Row 17: k3, p13, k4, p13, k3
Row 18: knit across
Row 19-36: repeat rows 17 & 18
Row 37: k3, p10, k7, p13, k3
Row 38: knit across
Row 39-42: repeat rows 37 & 38
Row 43: k3, p12, k5, p13, k3
Row 44: knit across
Row 45: k3, p14, k3, p13, k3
Row 46: knit across
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"2"
Cast on 35 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p29, k3
Row 6: knit across
(all remaining even numbered rows will be “knit across”)
Row 7-8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p8, k13, p8, k3
Rows 11-14: repeat rows 9 & 10
Row 15: k3, p8, k3, p7, k3, p8, k3
Row 17: k3, p8, k4, p6, k3, p8, k3
Row 19: k3, p8, k5, p16, k3
Row 21: k3, p9, k5, p15, k3
Row 23: k3, p10, k5, p14, k3
Row 25: k3, p11, k5, p13, k3
Row 27: k3, p12, k5, p12, k3
Row 29: k3, p13, k5, p11, k3
Row 31: k3, p14, k5, p10, k3
Row 33: k3, p15, k5, p9, k3
Row 35 & 37: k3, p9, k3, p4, k4, p9, k3
Row 39: k3, p9, k4, p3, k4, p9, k3
Row 41: k3, p10, k9, p10, k3
Row 43: k3, p11, k7, p11, k3
Row 45: k3, p12, k5, p12, k3
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Rows 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends.
"3"
Cast on 36 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p30, k3
Row 6: knit across
(all remaining even numbered rows will be knit across)
Row 7 & 8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
Row 11: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
Row 13: k3, p9, k12, p9, k3
Row 15: k3, p9, k4, p3, k5, p9, k3
Row 17 & 19: k3, p9, k3, p5, k4, p9, k3
Row 21: k3, p17, k4, p9, k3
Row 23: k3, p16, k4, p10, k3
Row 25: k3, p13, k6, p11, k3
Row 27: k3, p13, k5, p12, k3
Row 29: k3, p13, k6, p11, k3
Row 31: k3, p16, k3, p11, k3
Row 33: k3, p16, k4, p10, k3
Row 35 & 37: k3, p9, k3, p4, k4, p10, k3
Row 39: k3, p9, k4, p2, k5, p10, k3
Row 41: k3, p10, k9, p11, k3
Row 43: k3, p11, k7, p12, k3
Row 45: k3, p12, k5, p13, k3
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Rows 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"4"
Cast on 35 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p29, k3
Row 6: knit across
(all remaining even numbered rows will be knit across)
Row 7 & 8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p16, k4, p9, k3
Row 11-22: repeat rows 9 & 10
Row 23: k3, p7, k15, p7, k3
Row 25-28: repeat rows 23 & 24
Row 29: k3, p7, k4, p5, k4, p9, k3
Row 31 & 32: repeat rows 29 & 30
Row 33: k3, p8, k4, p4, k4, p9, k3
Row 35: k3, p9, k4, p3, k4, p9, k3
Row 37: k3, p10, k4, p2, k4, p9, k3
Row 39: k3, p11, k9, p9, k3
Row 41: k3, p12, k8, p9, k3
Row 43: k3, p13, k7, p9, k3
Row 45: k3, p14, k6, p9, k3
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Rows 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"5"
Cast on 35 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p29, k3
Row 6: knit across
(all remaining even numbered rows will be knit across)
Row 7 & 8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p9, k10, p10, k3
Row 11: k3, p8, k12, p9, k3
Row 13: k3, p7, k14, p8, k3
Row 15: k3, p6, k5, p5, k6, p7, k3
Row 17: k3, p6, k4, p7, k6, p6, k3
Row 19: k3, p6, k3, p9, k5, p6, k3
Row 21 & 23: k3, p19, k4, p6, k3
Row 25: k3, p8, k5, p6, k4, p6, k3
Row 27: k3, p8, k6, p5, k4, p6, k3
Row 29: k3, p8, k7, p3, k4, p7, k3
Row 31: k3, p8, k3, p1, k9, p8, k3
Row 33: k3, p8, k3, p2, k7, p9, k3
Row 35: k3, p8, k3, p3, k5, p10, k3
Row 37 & 39: k3, p8, k3, p18, k3
Row 41: k3, p8, k12, p9, k3
Rows 43 & 45: repeat row 41
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Rows 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"6"
Cast on 36 sts
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p30, k3
Row 6: knit across
(all remaining even numbered rows will be knit across)
Row 7 & 8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p11, k9, p10, k3
Row 11: k3, p10, k11, p9, k3
Row 13: k3, p8, k14, p8, k3
Row 15: k3, p8, k5, p5, k4, p8, k3
Row 17 & 19: k3, p8, k4, p7, k3, p8, k3
Row 21: k3, p8, k6, p5, k3, p8, k3
Row 23: k3, p8, k7, p4, k3, p8, k3
Row 25: k3, p8, k13, p9, k3
Row 27: k3, p8, k3, p2, k7, p10, k3
Row 29: k3, p8, k3, p3, k5, p11, k3
Row 31 & 33: k3, p8, k3, p19, k3
Row 35: k3, p8, k4, p7, k3, p8, k3
Row 37: k3, p9, k4, p5, k4, p8, k3
Row 39: k3, p10, k4, p3, k4, p9, k3
Row 41: k3, p11, k9, p10, k3
Row 43: k3, p12, k7, p11, k3
Row 45: k3, p13, k5, p12, k3
Row 47-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
Rows 51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"7"
Cast on 35 stitches
1-4: knit across
5: k3, p29, k3
6: knit across
7-8: repeat rows 5 & 6
9 and 11: k3, p11, k4, p14, k3
13 and 15: k3, p12, k4, p13, k3
17 and 19: k3, p13, k4, p12, k3
21 and 23: k3, p14, k4, p11, k3
25 and 27: k3, p15, k4, p10, k3
29 and 31: k3, p16, k4, p9, k3
33 and 35: k3, p17, k4, p8, k3
37 and 39: k3, p8, k3, p6, k4, p8, k3
41, 43 and 45: k3, p8, k13, p8, k3
47-50: repeat rows 5 and 6
51-54: knit across
Bind off and weave in ends
"8"
Cast on 36 stitches
Rows 1-4: knit across
Row 5: k3, p30, k3
Row 6 and remaining even numbered rows: knit across
Rows 7-8: repeat rows 5 & 6
Row 9: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
Rows 11 & 13: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
Row 15: k3, p9, k4, p4, k4, p9, k3
Rows 17, 19, 21 & 23: K3, p8, k4, p6, k4, p8, k3
Row 25: k3, p9, k4, p4, k4, p9, k3
Row 27: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
Row 29: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
Row 31: k3, p12, k6, p12, k3
Row 33: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
"9"
Number "6" upside down.
X (hugs):
0 (kisses):
Cast on 36 stitches
1-4: knit across
5: k3, p30, k3
6: and all remaining even-numbered rows; knit across
7: k3, p12, k6, p12, k3
9: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
11: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
13: k3, p9, k12, p9, k3
15: k3, p8, k14, p8, k3
17-37: (odd numbered rows) k3, p7, k4, p8, k4, p7, k3
39: k3, p8, k14, p8, k3
41: k3, p9, k12, p9, k3
43: k3, p10, k10, p10, k3
45: k3, p11, k8, p11, k3
47: k3, p12, k6, p12, k3
49-50: repeat rows 5 & 6
51-54: knit across
Then I picked up all the stitches along the next side, knit 4-6 rows in seed stitch. Bind off.
I did this to all four sides for a nice border.
One of these days, I will come back and write up all the patterns for all the squares...
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