Maja's blanket progress

I've been quietly knitting away on the squares for this blanket but not much blogging so far.

A nice surprise to discover that I need 20 and not 24 squares for the blanket.  Of course you can knit as many or as few squares as you want to.  I'm sticking to 20, feel that is plenty for the baby blanket.

I'm past the halfway mark now, 11 squares knitted.  I think I may need to buy more yarn though. I am not getting two whole squares out of one ball of baby cashmerino - more like 1.6 - no idea why as I'm using smaller needles and my squares are roughly the same size as in the pattern,  

Once I'd kntited 10 I decided to play around with how I want to join them,   In the pattern you work one round of dc and then use ss to join each square.  I tried the dc, but preferred to have some sort of garter borders around each square.   After an evening of playing I have it sorted.  :)

Using the background colour, a light primrose, I pick up stitches on one side of one square, then pick up the stitches on the side of the adjoining square.  Knit back (so there's a garter ridge on each of the sides to be joined).  Fold, RS together and do a 3 needle cast of.   Just what I wanted to achieve!

I'm joining four squares into a row, then joining the rows.  So far I've joined eight squares and have two rows joined.   I'm also going to stick with the garter stitch and work 8 garter ridges on each border. 

And here we go!  

 

The ends are another matter...

Comments

[Enid Mary Shaw]

very pretty; my way of joining would be to sew or crochet. Your way is too complicated for me.

[Jill Richards]

I wonder what it would like on crochet squares? I might try..... are these squares just knitted in one piece, or are they mitred or something, can't see, but very effective however they are done......