Modified Log Cabin Blanket

April 6th, 2009

I recently decided to make a baby blanket for a friend. This was partly because I’ve always wanted an excuse to knit with Berroco Comfort, and mostly because I knew she would like it. I do what I can to stay away from man-made fibers for various reasons, and ever since that first day at work I held a skein of the Comfort we’ve had a love-hate relationship. It’s just too soft to resist!

I wanted simple, garter stitch, portability, two-colored, and I just couldn’t for the life of me decide what to do. I’d thought about giving log cabin a try again, but there are just not many flattering ways to do a log cabin blanket with only 2 colors.

After agonizing, sketching, waffling, reconsidering, I finally came up with this…

If you look at a larger version of the picture (just click on it) you might  be able to tell that each color goes in a different direction. The blue garter ridges go one way, and the purple ones go another. I loved knitting this because there is minimal casting on, and the garter stitch makes it super easy.

To knit it, you just cast on the width of one square, knit as many garter ridges as you have stitches cast-on. If you cast-on 30, you will knit 60 rows (every 2 rows makes one garter ridge). When you’re done with that square, bind-off all of the stitches. Then just pick up 30 stitches in the 30 garter ridges as you would for a log cabin blanket, and knit another 60 rows. Do the same thing for the third and fourth squares, except you won’t start picking up stitches along the bind-off edge. You’ll have to seam the first and last squares together, et voila!

I think I’ll make 9 big squares (4 small squares to each big square) to make a blanket roughly 33″ x 33″. That’s a good baby blanket size, right?

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