Above is my current work in progress. I’m calling it the Quad Blanket as it features four colors. The blanket’s pattern is a simple log cabin style, instructions of which I found on this page about a third of the way down. Simply summarized, starting with a center block, you knit an addition, rotate the piece 90 degrees, knit the next addition, and continue till the blanket is the size you want it to be, or you run out of yarn.
The inspiration for this was really just me wanting to use up the various small scraps of yarn I’ve created and dyed during the past half year. One benefit this has is that the blanket has many different textures and yarns, I enjoy the variety. I started by knitting up the blue/grey yarn made in August into a square just to see how it would come out. Then I found the log cabin instructions and decided to use the square for the core. Then I added on these pink scraps, followed by some green I apparently dyed but didn’t photograph.
At this stage I knew my next color was going to be yellow, but I hadn’t made a yellow yarn yet… thus I decided to document my yarn making process via the yarn dyeing tutorial I posted last week. At that time I also dyed up the rest of my handspun stock in blue and pink for the next layers of the blanket.
My next challenge will be the next green segment. I have some dyed already but it’s green/purple, not solid green. I think I want to keep the solid color motif going, so I’ll be taking some time to work on processing the washed fleece into yarn. I guess that will be the next tutorial here!
Meagan – what a pretty colorful blanket this is going to be – however, how are you going to handle the larger rows when it gets bigger? Are you using circular needles to fit all the stitches on?
I commend your initiative and look forward to more pictures…
Denise
I’ll see how many stitches I can shove onto my straight needles – I do have one pair of circular needles which might be around the same size… hoping to cross that bridge when I get to it