Stack it Up Knit Blanket Pattern

Use your favorite Caron Cakes yarn to make this quick knit blanket pattern!

By: Caron Design Team from yarnspirations.com

By: Caron Design Team from yarnspirations.com

The Stack it Up Knit Blanket Pattern is made using some of the hottest yarn of the season, Caron Cakes, and displays the various colors beautifully. Since it is knit in individual squares and pieced together, you'll knit up a blanket with a really even display of all of the different tones in the yarn. This pattern is easy enough for inexperienced knitters to get the hang of, since the motifs are easy-to-memorize and there's no seaming involved as you simply pick up stitches from the edges of all other squares instead.

Easy

Knitting Needle Size8 or 5 mm

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

Gauge17 sts and 32 rows = 4" [10 cm] in garter stitch;

Motif = Approx. 9" [23 cm] square

Finished SizeApprox. 54" x 63" [137 x 160 cm]

Materials List

Caron® Cakes™ (7.1 oz/200 g; 383 yds/350 m) - Rum Raisin (17034): 6 balls
Size U.S. 8 (5 mm) knitting needles or size needed to obtain gauge.

Instructions

Note: Squares are joined as you knit.

Blanket is made with 42 Squares in total (7 Strips, each with 6 Squares).

Use 2 needle cast on method throughout.

Basic Square

First Square
Cast on 71 sts.
**1st row: (WS). Knit.
2nd row: K34. Slip next 2 sts as if to K2tog. K1. Pass 2 slipped sts over – center dec made (2 sts dec). PM on center dec just made. K34. 69 sts.
3rd row: Knit to marked center st. Sl1pwyif. Knit to end of row.
4th row: Knit to 1 st before marked st. Center dec. Knit to end of row. 67 sts.
5th row: As 3rd row.

Rep last 2 rows to 3 sts.

Next row: (WS). Sl1. K2tog. psso. Fasten off.**

Join a total of 42 Squares (including Square just complete – see diagram) as follows:

Joining Squares:

STRIP 1 – Squares 2 to 6: Pick- up row: With RS facing, cast on 36 sts. Pick up and knit 35 sts along previous Square. 71 sts.
Work from ** to ** as given for Basic Square.

STRIP 2 – First Square: Pick-up row: With RS facing, pick up and knit 35 sts along top edge of first Square of Strip below. Cast on 36 sts. 71 sts.
Work from ** to ** as given for Basic Square.

STRIP 2 – Squares 2 to 6: Pick-up row: With RS facing, pick up and knit 35 sts along previous joined Square of same Strip. Pick up and knit 36 sts along next Square of Strip below. 71 sts.
Work from ** to ** as given for Basic Square.

STRIPS 3 – 7: Work as given for Strip 2.