Ombre Basketweave Baby Blanket
Materials
6 skeins of color for ends, 4 skeins of color for center; DK or Worsted weight suitable for babies Shown in Deborah Norville Everyday Soft Worsted inCream andGlass Size 10 % circular needle, 24' or longer to accommodate the width of the blanket Gauge Gauge is not vital, size of the blanket can be adjusted by increasing the number of repeats Techniques
The blanket is worked holding 2 strands of yarn together throughout. The pattern is achieved using only knit and purl stitches with a 5-stitch seed stitch border for the whole blanket.
Instructions
Cast on 92 using 2 strands of color 1 (I like the Norwegian cast on as it is almost as fast as the long tail, but stretchier) http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/howto/archive/2008/05/15/old-norwegian-cast-on.aspx To achieve the ombre look: Work 5 rows in seed stitch Complete 2 repeats using 2 strands of color 1 Switch to 1 strand of each color for 1 % repeats Switch to 2 strands of color 2 for the 2nd half of that repeat, 2 fullrepeats and the first half of the next Switch to 1 strand of each color for 1 % repeats Work 2 repeats using 2 strands of color 1 Work 5 rows in seed stitch Begin pattern: Seed stitch(http://www.knittingonthenet.com/stitches/seed.htm Row 1: k1, p1, to end Row 2: p1, k1, to end At the beginning and end of each row, continue the seed stich from the first 5 rows, then begin the pattern stitch I used 4 repeats of the pattern across (plus the 5-seed stitch borders) Enlarged Basket Stitch (from the Harmony Guide) Row 1: k11, \*p2, k2, p2, k12; rep from \* to last 17 sts, p2, k2, p2, k11. Row 2: p1, \*k8, [p2, k2] twice, p2, rep from \* to last 9 sts, k8, p1. Row 3: k1, \*p8, [k2, p2] twice, k2; rep from \* to last 9 sts, p8, k1. Row 4: p11, \*k2, p2, k2, p12; rep from \* to last 17 sts, k2, p2, k2, p11. Repeat these 4 rows Row 9: knit Row 10: [p2, k2] twice, p12, \*k2, p2, k2, p12; rep from 8 to last 8 sts, [k2, p2] twice Row 11: [k2, p2} twice, k2, \*p8, [k2, p2] twice, k2; rep from 8 to end Row 12: [p2, k2] twice, p2, \*k8, [p2, k2] twice, p2; rep from \* to end Row 13: [k2, p2] twice, k12, \*p2, k2, p2, k12; rep from \* to last 8 sts, [p2, k2] twice. Repeat these 4 rows Row 18: purl
