This is the latest square for my vintage sampler blanket. It is made in Debbie Bliss cashmerino dk using 4 mm needles. For a 6″ square I cast on 36 stitches and knit 60 rows.
This is the first square I’ve made using my new colour palette inspired by a lovely painting on Michelle‘s blog. The colours are taken from one of the roses in the picture.
Here are the instructions for this square. It requires a number of stitches divisible by 10, plus 4 plus 2 edge stitches.
1st row: Colour A. Knit.
2nd and all alternate rows: K1, purl all sts, slipping all slipped sts purlwise, k last st.
3rd row: Change to colour B. K2, *slip 2, k8; rep from * to last 4 sts, slip 2 k2.
5th row: Change to colour C. K1, *cable 1 back (c1b), cable 1 forward (c1f), k2, slip 2, k2; rep from * to last st, k1.
7th row: Change to colour A. K2, *slip 2, k2, c1b, c1f, k2; rep from * to last 4 sts, slip 2, k2.
Continue to work 2 rows in colours A, B and C while repeating rows 5-8.
I’ve yet to try knitting with several colours simultaneously. This will be a future challenge I think. Your really knitting up a storm these days!
I just love this sampler – the use of the three colours, and slip stitches to get the colours to work together. Beautiful.
I have started a sampler blanket using left overs of wool I have gathered from dozens of places. All my pieces are the same width so I can sew them together into strips (some are knitted up and down, others side to side), and then sew the strips together. It has been put into a box as a WIP at the moment – sewing is grabbing my attention at the moment. I am using a couple of knitting stitches books to make a variety of patterns in the squares.
Janet McKinney
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You were definitely right to go with these stronger colours. The blanket is going to be gorgeous!
Oh, that square is really pretty. The colors work perfectly together!
The color palette and the pattern square are gorgeous. That is going to be one stunning blanket when its done!
Those colours look amazing together, I’m so curious what the rest of the blanket will look like! It seems all complicated to a fairly new knitter like myself, but who knows, maybe I’ll be able to make sense of it one day…