ARDITH’S BABY BLANKIE PATTERN
This blanket is made using the basket weave stitch.
I did it with a size 6 circular needle, but if you want a looser weave and slightly bigger blanket, use a bigger needle. Do not go bigger than a 9.
It takes 5 balls. (of just about anything.)
Cast on 102 stitches.
Knit all the yarn in basket weave stitch.
Cast off before you run out!
I make these when I travel - I have probably made a hundred of them in my lifetime.
I learned to knit from our maid in Mexico when I was 11. She used to make the most gorgeous things and she would let me totally ruin them as I was learning.
We couldn’t really buy patterns, but there was a little yarn shop in the small city where I lived. I think we used to buy our school books in the same shop, so there could not have been much yarn, but to me it was heaven. I used to go in a drool for hours!
BASKET WEAVE:
Row 1: knit 2, purl 2 to the end
Row 2: Purl 2, knit 2 to the end
Row 3: Purl 2, knit 2 to the end
Row 4: knit 2, purl 2 to the end.
Repeat rows 1 - 4 until the yarn is gone!!
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