This time I thought that I would share a super quick and easy blanket pattern that you can make with the yarn that I used or any bulky yarn. Try combining two strands of worsted weight to make a super easy, super cozy blanket!
I had four balls of Bernat Blanket yarn (you can use any bulky weight or use worsted weight doubled) that I had bought with cowls in mind but found that the yarn just did not have enough bounce to create the look that I imagined. So what to do with it? Why not a Blanket blanket? Okay, I got my joke out of the way and here is how I went ahead and made a 115cm x 155cm (45” x 60”) cozy blanket.
The blanket is knit with garter stitch in the Shetland style with a centre rectangle and then subsequent rows worked around that. You will need 800 metres (885 yards) of bulky weight yarn. As I said above, you can use Blanket as I did or any worsted weight yarn held double which will double the amount of yarn that you need of course. You will need 10 or 12mm circular needles. Start with one and then two or a very long one as the size of the blanket grows. You will also need four stitch markers.
With a 10 or 12mm circular needle, cast on 18 stitches and knit 60 rows, bind off.
Pick up and knit 18 stitches across the short side of the rectangle, place a marker, 30 stitches along the long side, place a marker, then 18 stitches at the other short side, place a marker and finally another 30 stitches along the last long side, placing a final marker. (To garter stitch in the round, you will knit the first row and purl the next. These two rows will be worked throughout.) Purl the next row.
Increase in each corner on each knit row by making a stitch before the marker, slip the marker, knit one and make another stitch. Make a stitch by lifting the bar between two stitches onto the left needle and knit through the back loop.
I changed colours after 14 rows, then 18, 18 and 12 rows to make the stripes around the centre piece. Bind off with a stretchy bind off; I knit two stitches then slipped them back to the left needle and knit them together. Knit the next stich, slip those two onto the left needle, knit them together and so on. You can alternate colours as often as you like or make it all in one colour. Just have fun with it!