I’ve been working on two chevron baby blankets for a few months now. I just love having a knitting project going, one that is easy to pick up and just work on for a few minutes. I bought my yarn in a market here in Hong Kong, so I know its not high quality, but it was soft and fleece like… so I thought it would be good for baby blankets.
I ended up two blankets… this pretty girly one… but the knit was too tight… yarn too big, needles to small.
So for the next one, I used bigger needles… This worked great! Looser stitching and a better look.
Yep, I was all excited about this second blanket until I took it off the needles.
and then I was sad! It wasn’t a cute chevron baby blanket.. It was a runner! Yikes it was long and thin and NOT good.
So, I returned the yarn to its natural state… and started over..
You can find the pattern over at the Purl Bee… of course her knitting is perfect and her yarn is beautiful… but it does work with different yarn.
I cast on 1/2 the stitches, still used the larger needles and tried again!
It was perfect this time! A square when finished and loosely knit. I’m so pleased with it and I can’t wait to give it away.
For other baby blanket ideas see:
Knit Squares Crochet together baby blanket
Frayed Flannel Baby Blanket
Flannel Hand-stitched Baby Blanket
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and… I know this has NOTHING to do with this blanket, but did you see the new menu item that Chili’s is offering? I used to work there in College and its still one of my FAVORITE restaurants!!! You can get a FREE flatbread… I think you just have to sign up for an e-mail… EASY!!! I will be getting mine for sure!!
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Susan Being Snippy says
came to your page via thirty handmade days link-up. I have done a few chevron crochet afghans but have not knit one before — I’ll have to take a look at the pattern to see if I really want to put the time into making one, yours looks lovely, even the long narrow one!
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