After a bit of a delay, because Christmas and New Year have been hectic, here is the final part of the pattern – sorry if you’ve been waiting for it. My fault! Yvonne was on time as usual but I got caught up in other things and neglected the blog. Anyway, hope you had a lovely Festive Season and hoping that all of you have a fabulous 2024.
If you remember, the previous section was a checkerboard design of alternating plain and purl blocks of 3 stitches and 3 rows.
The final strip, before the garter stitch border looks rather like a diagonal rib.(see photo at top of post)
Yvonne writes,”I know you’ve all been waiting for the next instalment of our baby blanket and the final pattern which is pretty straightforward I think but we will see. So here we go…”
Week 15
Row 1. Remembering the edge sts, then K1, *K2tog but don’t slip the sts off and K into first st again and slip both off together, repeat to end of the row.
Row 2. And all wrong side rows P.
Row 3. K2tog, and K into first st again slipping both off together to last st K1.
Repeat rows 1 and 3 with P rows in between and then first two rows again until 10 rows have been completed.
When you have completed the pattern finish with your 10 rows of garter stitch to finish your blanket. Cast off, sew in ends and you’re all done.
Yvonne adds, “I have really enjoyed doing this blanket with you all and hope you have too and also learned something new along the way. Thanks guys for attempting to do this and I know it hasn’t been easy so well done to you all.”
I’d like to thank Yvonne on behalf of all of us for creating this project – we’ve all had a blast doing it and we love how they all turned out. It really took us out of comfort zones to try some challenging new stitches. Here are some of the results, from A, L and R respectively
It’s been very strange not to be knitting the blanket and comparing notes every week in our little knit and natter group.
Here’s my finished blanket – I’m going to block it. A labour of love like this deserves the time it takes to finish it properly…and I got a blocking mat for Christmas!
Stitches by the Sea 