Pump Up the Plaid Blanket

Description

Mix it up and have a fun experience with combining knitting & weaving!

When someone loves you, it’s like having a blanket all around your heart. ~ Helen Fielding, Author Bridget Jones’s Diary, 1996

A baby blanket, a car seat cover, a playmat for a toddler, a lap cover for the family or a one-person blanket for your young adult, this blanket can be so many things. Choose any plaid concept and play with color. The Tartans are always a fun go to for color. Or choose a family or clan Tartan if you have one: Black Watch, MacGregor, MacKenzie, Campbell, or Stewart, just to name a few.

School colors are always a perfect way to show your school spirit. You could match a nursery theme or just make a neutral blanket for use everywhere in the home. Mix it up and have a fun experience with knitting and weaving combined.

SIZE: Small Blanket (Large Blanket)
FINISHEDMEASUREMENTS: 45.5” wide x 27 (49)” long / 115.5 cm x 68.5 (124.5) cm

YARN: DK or Bulky weight: 2,310 (4,895) yds in a total of 4 different colors

NEEDLE: US 10.5 (6.5mm) 32” circular needle, OR Size needed to obtain gauge. Circular needle used to accommodate the number of sts.
GAUGE: 13 sts and 30 rows = 4” (10 cm) / 3.25 sts and 7.5 rows = 1” (2.5 cm) in Garter Stitch
Gauge does not have to be exact, however your blanket will be smaller or larger depending on your gauge variance.

NOTIONS:1 – 5” weaving needle (this makes the weaving infinitely easier) Link: Susan Bates Weaving Needle

SAMPLES = The original sample was knit with Paternayan wool (178 yds/100 g) colors: Two skeins each of Purple #321, Blue #592, Green #633 and one skein Orange #810.
New Samples were knit with Brown Sheep Prairie Spun DK (256 yds/100 g) held double in colors:
Blue Sample: Denim Jeans (640 yds) Swallowtail Butterfly (643 yds) Dewdrop (563 yds) and Half & Half (248 yds) with 6” fringe on each end.
Red Sample: Red Barn (1231 yds) Blackbird (1181 yds) Swallowtail Butterfly (1125 yds) Half & Half (870 yds) with 4” fringe on each end.