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Rock Candy Knit Blanket Pattern

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Rock Candy Knit Blanket Pattern

The Rock Candy Knit Blanket Pattern is a playful baby blanket pattern with bright, popping colors that look like candy lining a store’s shelves. This blanket pattern uses a fun combination of knits, purls, and yarn overs to create a blanket with many different textures, and a self-striping yarn lets you get the great look of stripes without the difficulty of changing yarn colors. This blanket will look wonderful lining any baby’s crib, and they will love to snuggle with it (and so will you)!

Knitting Needle Size10.5 or 6.5 mm, 9 or 5.5 mm, Circular Knitting Needles

Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)

Gauge14 sts = 4" [10 cm]; 18 rows = 4" [10 cm] in Stockinette Stitch (knit on right side, purl on wrong side).

Finished Size36" x 38" (91 cm x 96 cm)

Materials List

  • RED HEART® With Love Stripes™: 4 skeins 1973 Candy Stripe
  • Susan Bates® Circular Knitting Needles: 5.5mm [US 9] and 6.0mm [US 10] 29" long
  • Yarn needle

Instructions

NOTE:
Blanket is worked back and forth in rows on circular needles, do not join. 

Texture Pattern

  1. Row 1 (Right Side): Knit.

  2. Row 2 (Wrong Side): K3, purl to last 3 sts, K3.

  3. Rows 3-4: Repeat Rows 1-2.

  4. Rows 5-6: Knit.

  5. Rows 7-8: Repeat Rows 1-2.

  6. Rows 9-10: Knit.

  7. Row 11: K3, *(K2tog, YO); repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.

  8. Row 12: Knit.

  9. Repeat Rows 1-12 for Texture Pattern.

Blanket

With smaller size needles, cast on 118 sts.

  1. Rows 1-5: Knit.

  2. Next Rows: Change to larger size needles and begin working in Texture Pattern. Continue in Texture Pattern until piece measures 37" [94 cm] from cast-on edge, ending with Row 4 of Texture Pattern.

  3. Next Rows: Change to smaller size needles and knit 6 Rows. On last Row, bind off all stitches.

Finishing

 Weave in ends.

Abbreviations

K2tog
knit 2 sts together as one (decrease)
YO
yarn over needle (increase)
k
knit
mm
millimeters
p
purl
st(s)
stitch(es)
*
repeat whatever follows the * as indicated

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