Florence

Quilting your blanket: To secure the knitted part to the fabric, the designer has quilted along the seamsTo do this you could either use a normal cotton (we recommend a 100% cotton) or a perle cotton which would give the finished item extra strength.

Stocking stitch

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Row 2: p16
❒ Rows 3 ¨C 16: rep rows 1-2 seven times

Reverse stocking stitch

❒ Rows 1-2: k16
❒ Row 3: p16
❒ Rows 4-15: rep Rows 2-3 six times
❒ Row 16: as Row 1

Moss stitch

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Row 2: (k1, p1) eight times
❒ Row 3: (p1, k1) eight times
❒ Rows 4-15: rep Rows 2-3 six times
❒ Row 16: rep Row 2

Seed stitch

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Rows 2-3: (k1, p1) eight times
❒ Rows 4-5: (p1, k1) eight times
❒ Rows 6-13: rep Rows 2-5 twice
❒ Rows 14-16: rep Rows 2-4

Small check

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Rows 2-3: (k2, p2) four times
❒ Rows 4-5: (p2, k2) four times
❒ Rows 6-13: rep Rows 2-5 twice
❒ Rows 14-16: rep Rows 2-4

Large check

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Rows 2-4: k2, (p3, k3) twice, p2
❒ Rows 5-7: p2, (k3, p3) twice, k2
❒ Rows 8-10: as Rows 2-4
❒ Rows 11-13: as Rows 5-7
❒ Rows 14-16: as Rows 2-4

Narrow diagonal stripe (r)

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Row 2: (k2, p2) four times
❒ Row 3: k1, (p2, k2) three times, p2, k1
❒ Row 4: (p2, k2) four times
❒ Row 5: p1, (k2, p2) three times, k2, p1
❒ Rows 6-13: rep Rows 2-5 twice
❒ Rows 14-16: rep Rows 2-4

Narrow diagonal stripe (l)

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Rows 2-16: work as for Narrow diagonal stripe (r) but work all k sts as p and all p sts as k

Wide diagonal stripe (r)

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Row 2: (k3, p3) twice, k3, p1
❒ Row 3: (p3, k3) twice, p3, k1
❒ Row 4: p2, (k3, p3) twice, k2
❒ Row 5: p1, (k3, p3) twice, k3
❒ Row 6: k1, (p3, k3) twice, p3
❒ Row 7: k2, (p3, k3) twice, p2
❒ Rows 8-13: rep Rows 2-7
❒ Rows 14-16: rep Rows 2-4

Wide diagonal stripe (l)

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Rows 2-16: work as for Narrow diagonal stripe (r) but work all k sts as p and all p sts as k

Diamonds

❒ Row 1: k16
❒ Row 2: (p3, k1) four times
❒ Row 3: (k1, p1) eight times
❒ Row 4: p1, k1 (p3, k1) three times, p2
❒ Row 5: as Row 3
❒ Rows 6-13: rep Rows 2-5 twice
❒ Rows 14-16: rep Rows 2-4

BLANKET

Knit ten individual strips in turn starting at the bottom left with Block 1 and following the colour and stitch order given belowJoin the strips together as each one is completed, matching the joins between the colours carefully and using ladder stitch Using short 4mm needles cast on 16 sts for each strip

Strip one

❒ Block 1: yarn C st st
❒ Block 2: yarn E Large check
❒ Block 3: yarn F st st
❒ Block 4: yarn A Narrow diagonal stripe (l)
❒ Block 5: yarn B st st
❒ Block 6: yarn E Wide diagonal stripe (r)
❒ Block 7: yarn F st st
❒ Block 8: yarn B Large check
❒ Block 9: yarn C st st
❒ Block 10: yarn E Small check
❒ Block 11: yarn D st st
❒ Block 12: yarn C Narrow diagonal stripe (r)

Strip two

❒ Block 1: yarn D Large check
❒ Block 2: yarn B st st
❒ Block 3: yarn E small check
❒ Block 4: yarn D st st
❒ Block 5: yarn F Wide diagonal stripe (r)
❒ Block 6: yarn C st st
❒ Block 7: yarn A Moss stitch
❒ Block 8: yarn E st st
❒ Block 9: yarn D Reverse st st
❒ Block 10: yarn F st st
❒ Block 11: yarn A Large check
❒ Block 12: yarn E st st

Strip three

❒ Block 1: yarn E st st
❒ Block 2: yarn C Small check
❒ Block 3: yarn A st st
❒ Block 4: yarn B Wide

diagonal stripe (r)

❒ Block 5: yarn E st st
❒ Block 6: yarn B Large check
❒ Block 7: yarn D st st
❒ Block 8: yarn C Wide

diagonal stripe (l)

❒ Block 9: yarn B st st
❒ Block 10: yarn D Large check
❒ Block 11: yarn F st st
❒ Block 12: yarn B Small check

Strip four

❒ Block 1: yarn F Small check
❒ Block 2: yarn B st st
❒ Block 3: yarn E Large check
❒ Block 4: yarn D st st
❒ Block 5: yarn C Seed stitch
❒ Block 6: yarn F st st
❒ Block 7: yarn A Diamonds
❒ Block 8: yarn E st st
❒ Block 9: yarn F Large check
❒ Block 10: yarn C st st
❒ Block 11: yarn E Moss stitch
❒ Block 12: yarn C st st

Strip five

❒ Block 1: yarn C st st
❒ Block 2: yarn D Reverse st st
❒ Block 3: yarn F st st
❒ Block 4: yarn C Small check
❒ Block 5: yarn A st st
❒ Block 6: yarn E Large check
❒ Block 7: yarn B st st
❒ Block 8: yarn C Narrow

diagonal stripe (r)

❒ Block 9: yarn E st st
❒ Block 10: yarn A Small check
❒ Block 11: yarn D st st
❒ Block 12: yarn B Seed stitch

Strip six

❒ Block 1: yarn E Small check
❒ Block 2: yarn A st st
❒ Block 3: yarn B Narrow

diagonal stripe (r)

❒ Block 4: yarn F st st
❒ Block 5: yarn B Large check
❒ Block 6: yarn D st st
❒ Block 7: yarn F Seed stitch
❒ Block 8: yarn D st st
❒ Block 9: yarn C Large check
❒ Block 10: yarn B st st
❒ Block 11: yarn F Moss stitch
❒ Block 12: yarn E st st

Strip seven

❒ Block 1: yarn B st st
❒ Block 2: yarn F Large check
❒ Block 3: yarn C st st
❒ Block 4: yarn D Reverse st st
❒ Block 5: yarn E st st
❒ Block 6: yarn C Narrow

diagonal stripe

❒ Block 7: yarn A st st
❒ Block 8: yarn B Small check
❒ Block 9: yarn F st st
❒ Block 10: yarn E Diamonds
❒ Block 11: yarn A st st
❒ Block 12: yarn D Narrow

diagonal stripe Strip eight

❒ Block 1: yarn D Wide

diagonal stripe

❒ Block 2: yarn C st st
❒ Block 3: yarn E Seed stitch
❒ Block 4: yarn B st st
❒ Block 5: yarn A Large check
❒ Block 6: yarn F st st
❒ Block 7: yarn C Reverse st st
❒ Block 8: yarn E st st
❒ Block 9: yarn A Narrow

diagonal stripe

❒ Block 10: yarn C st st
❒ Block 11: yarn B Large check
❒ Block 12: yarn F st st

Strip nine

❒ Block 1: yarn B st st
❒ Block 2: yarn A Diamonds
❒ Block 3: yarn F st st
❒ Block 4: yarn C Small check
❒ Block 5: yarn E st st
❒ Block 6: yarn B Seed stitch
❒ Block 7: yarn D st st
❒ Block 8: yarn C Moss stitch
❒ Block 9: yarn B st st
❒ Block 10: yarn F Small check
❒ Block 11: yarn E st st
❒ Block 12: yarn D Reverse st st

Strip ten

❒ Block 1: yarn E Large check
❒ Block 2: yarn D st st
❒ Block 3: yarn B Narrow

diagonal stripe

❒ Block 4: yarn F st st
❒ Block 5: yarn D Large check
❒ Block 6: yarn C st st
❒ Block 7: yarn E Wide

diagonal stripe

❒ Block 8: yarn F st st
❒ Block 9: yarn D Small check
❒ Block 10: yarn C st st
❒ Block 11: yarn B Moss stitch
❒ Block 12: yarn C st st

Border

❒ Using 3mm needles and yarn A, pick up and k 14 sts at side of each block along left edge
❒ K eight rows
❒ Cast off
❒ Complete right edge in the same way
❒ Using 4mm needles, pick up and k six sts from both border ends and 14 sts from each block along the top edge
❒ K eight rows
❒ Cast off
❒ Complete bottom edge in the same way

Press the seams lightly from the WSCut a rectangle of cotton fabric that meas 3cm larger all round than the blanket, then press under a 3cm seam along each edgePin fabric to back of blanket so it lies just within castoff edges and slip stitch togPin two layers tog at 10cm intervals, smoothing out backing fabric, then work a round of quilting sts along the inside edge of borderQuilt along each vertical seam (see Knit wise on prev page) then along horizontal joins between blocks LK

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MEASUREMENTS & SIZES
Florence:67cm x 78 cm