Log Cabin Blanket

I heard about this pattern from the a podcast about a year ago. (It may have been Stash and Burn.) The podcasters were talking about one of the booths they saw at Stitches from Bella Knitting. I fell in love with the non-garter log cabin blankets they had. The blankets use the garter technique, in that every row is knit, however on some of the right side rows there are textured stitches. This blanket uses a slip stitch pattern in three colors for the center square and the textured pattern has a knit into the row below on some of the rows. There is another textured blanket that uses yarn - overs. The finished blankets are gorgeous.

I bought just the patterns because I didn't know how large of a blanket I was going to make (or for who). A coworker at work is having her second baby boy, so I thought I'd make this for her. The blues and offwhite were donated from Doree's stash, and I bought 1 skein of the green to add color. It's not quite the exact shade of green that I wanted, but it's better than the other option of pale mint green.

Here's a close up of the center square.

Here's a close up of the log cabin strips. (The center panel colors are more true to life.)

Here's the progress so far. According to the pattern, there are 4 strips on each side. I'm going to make it a little bigger, but I haven't decided how much yet. This is a really quick knit in the worsted weight yarn.

Comments

[robin]

Looks good so far!! We never figured out a day to get together -email me!