Eamon Baby Blanket Pattern
This knitting pattern PDF is for the Eamon Baby Blanket - an engaging project with both colour and texture. A perfect gift blanket for baby.
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The Eamon Blanket uses a couple of easy knitting techniques to create a beautifully finished blanket. The blanket is knitted in eight strips and joined using mattress stitch. The strips consist of eight blocks of colour with an off-centre textured pattern adding an extra element of interest.
The strips begin with a provisional cast on and the stitches at the other end are left on a thread.
The side borders are picked up and knitted out in garter stitch. The top and bottom borders are worked across the live stitches left at top and bottom after the strips are joined.
The borders have mitred corners, which are flat-seamed to create a neat finish.
There are four colours used in this blanket, but you could also use just two or three colours.
The Eamon Baby Blanket requires average to intermediate knitting skills.
Finished measurements
Length and width (after blocking) approx 102cm/40ins
Yarn
Cleckheaton Superfine Merino 8 ply
100% Australian Superfine Merino
65g (130 metres/142 yards)
Colour A: 5 balls or approx 650 metres/710 yards
Colour B: 2 balls or approx 260 metres/284 yards
Colour C: 2 balls or approx 260 metres/284 yards
Colour D: 2 balls or approx 260 metres/284 yards
The border is knitted in Colour A. If you wish to make the border in Colour B, C or D you will need 3 balls more of that colour and only 2 balls of Colour A.
Needles and notions
4mm/US 6 needles in straights or circular depending on your preference when knitting in rows
3.75mm/US 5 circular needle 80cm/32ins long
yarn needle
4mm/US G-6 crochet hook and length of smooth scrap yarn for provisional cast-on
Tension
22 sts and 30 rows to 10cm/4ins over stocking st using 4mm needles.
Knitting techniques
provisional cast-on
garter stitch (every row knit stitch)
decreasing and increasing stitches (in mitred border)
knitting up stitches (side borders)
mattress stitch (for joining strips)
flat seam (for mitred borders)
