It’s time for another ten stitch blanket.
On Wednesday our youngest daughter asked if I could knit them a huge blanket for camping. One they could all snug under!
Happy to oblige. I have a box of DK yarn in lots of bright colours that I had no plans for, other than to try and use it up this year. By using three strands held together I get the chunky weight I like to use for a ten stitch. I decided to just knit until the colours run out and start the next randomly. As there are lots of reds I determined that this would hopefully be my main colour going through with the other colours as accents. By changing colours this way you don’t get the defined change lines, rather a more blended look. So far so good.
I started this on Thursday 2 June - pm
I’m really happy with the progress and how quickly the Dk stash is moving. I do have a 400 gram ball of red aran weight yarn if I need more red but would need to use a 4ply to go with to get the right thickness. I’ll see what’s left once I run out of red, it may be that I can border with an orange mix as that’s my next largest amount. Or maybe now I’m at a corner I could go orange as main for a few rounds, then bring in red again. Perhaps I’ll give that a go and see how it looks. The one good thing is it’s only ten stitches to pull out and pick up, easy.
