Scallop Log Cabin Blanket Pattern with Polka Dots by Hollianna Bryan - Knitting Project Details and Instructions

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A blanket by Hollianna Bryan

Materials: About 2400 yards of worsted weight yarn is suggested. The model was knit with a combination of Caron Simply Soft and Red Heart Soft. Simply Soft: Sunshine (2 skeins), Iris (1 skein), Mint Blue (1 skein), Red (1 skein), Ocean Blue (1 skein). Red Heart Soft: Orange (1 skein) and Guacamole (1 skein). Needle: US8 (5mm) needles, or to match your yarn.

Gauge: Gauge isn't important. Choose the needle size to get the fabric density that you desire. Skills: garter stitch; stockinette stitch; picking up stitches; intarsia. Size: 44 inches by 44 inches. In the model, each square measures 8 inches wide and 7 inches high. To alter the blanket size, add or detract log cabin strips, or change the weight of the yarn and the needles. Polka dots met the log cabin, and this scalloped log cabin blanket was born. Combining stockinette polka dots with a garter-stitch logcabin construction, the model uses the seven colors of the rainbow and rotates through them in both the polka dots and strips. For a less busy blanket, you could keep the polka dots all one color and still vary the log cabin strips. It's endlessly variable. Inspiration: The carry-along stockinette polka dot construction was inspired by Cat Bordhi's Emmisha-Jay Beanie from Knitty, Deep Fall 2012. The polka dot chart is adapted in part from Cindra Tinson's Polka Dot Parade blanket, which I used You can follow the traditional intarsia method, or carry the main as a guide. color behind the contrast color while working the polka dots. The model was worked this way. So doing minimizes the amount of yarn balls you have to manage, but it does create a more textured circle with less give than regular stockinette. Because of the combination of garter and stockinette, the polka dot will rise from the background, a ripple will appear between dots that are oriented differently, and the strips will wave. As you work outward, the middle strips will straighten, leaving the wavy outer edges. To minimize the texturing, chose yarns with the same thickness and a gauge with some give.

Log Cabin

Cast on 38 stitches and start the polka dot chart. When you've got to the end, bind off loosely. Rotate the square to the right and pick up 38 stitches along the garter stitch edge. To get all 38 stitches, pick up both the ladder and the purl nub for each garter ridge. With new colors, repeat the polka dot chart for your second square. Rotate. At this point, you have a section of garter ridges and another of bind off edges. You will pick up 38 stitches in each section, using the technique described above for the garter section and a regular technique for the other section. Place a stitch marker between each 38-stitch section and begin the polka dots again, this time working the polka-dot chart twice across. When finished, rotate and repeat, adding sections of polka dots across the picked up stitches. Keep in mind that each polka dot takes 38 stitches, so count in repeats of 38 as you pick up stitches and establish your new log cabin strip. The model blanket works 9 strips, ending with 5 polka dots across each side. Work as many strips as you like, following the pattern established above.

Edging the Blanket

Picking the edge with the most modules (combinations of strips), pick up the stitches as you would normally and knit 6 garter ridges before binding off. Repeat along all edges, ending with the 5 polka-dot strip. Your finished blanket should have a slight ruffled, scalloped edge.

Polka Dots

All main color is knit in garter stitch. The contrast color is knit in stockinette: purl wrong/even-side rows. This holds true except for one exception: to avoid creating odd color changes, on Rows 30 and 32, purl the new main color stitches then switch back to knit for the already established main color stitches.