Jewel baby blanket in 5 colours. This knitting pattern uses illusion knitting to create the subtle diamond shapes.
Jewel blanket in two style options. Three colours or five colours. Illusion knitting creates the subtle diamonds.
Jewel blanket in stone, aqua, yellow, orange and pink.
Close up of subtle diamonds in the Jewel knit blanket.
Jewel Blanket in red, white and blue. The border is red and the diamonds are blue and white.
Jewel blanket with red borders and subtle diamonds in white and blue.
Jewel baby blanket in 5 colours. This knitting pattern uses illusion knitting to create the subtle diamond shapes.
Jewel blanket in two style options. Three colours or five colours. Illusion knitting creates the subtle diamonds.
Jewel blanket in stone, aqua, yellow, orange and pink.
Close up of subtle diamonds in the Jewel knit blanket.
Jewel Blanket in red, white and blue. The border is red and the diamonds are blue and white.
Jewel blanket with red borders and subtle diamonds in white and blue.

Jewel Baby Blanket Pattern

$9.50

This knitting pattern PDF is for the Jewel Baby Blanket. Jewel uses the technique of Shadow or Illusion knitting to create a captivating blanket. There are two style options - a three-colour blanket or a five-colour blanket.

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If you wish to have the pattern in your Ravelry library please purchase it from Ravelry instead.

Shadow knitting creates an illusion of blocks of colours. The way it forms is by working 2-row stripes with offset garter ridges. In the Jewel Blanket the pattern created forms subtle diamond shapes across the blanket.

It is knitted in one piece (except for the side borders), beginning with the bottom border. The borders are worked in garter stitch and shaped to form mitred corners which are flat-seamed to create a neat finish. The side borders are picked up and knitted out.

The pattern stitch can be worked from the chart or the written instructions.

The Jewel Blanket requires average to moderate knitting skills and is suitable for advanced beginners and above. It does require a level of concentration when working the wrong side rows however every right side row is a knit-stitch row only.

This knitting pattern PDF is for the Jewel Baby Blanket. Jewel uses the technique of Shadow or Illusion knitting to create a captivating blanket. There are two style options - a three-colour blanket or a five-colour blanket.

When you purchase this knitting pattern you will automatically receive an email containing a link to download a PDF.
If you wish to have the pattern in your Ravelry library please purchase it from Ravelry instead.

Shadow knitting creates an illusion of blocks of colours. The way it forms is by working 2-row stripes with offset garter ridges. In the Jewel Blanket the pattern created forms subtle diamond shapes across the blanket.

It is knitted in one piece (except for the side borders), beginning with the bottom border. The borders are worked in garter stitch and shaped to form mitred corners which are flat-seamed to create a neat finish. The side borders are picked up and knitted out.

The pattern stitch can be worked from the chart or the written instructions.

The Jewel Blanket requires average to moderate knitting skills and is suitable for advanced beginners and above. It does require a level of concentration when working the wrong side rows however every right side row is a knit-stitch row only.

Finished measurements

width approx 95cm/37½ins
length approx 102cm/40¼ins

Yarn

Indiecita DK
100% baby alpaca
50g (112 metres/123 yards)

5-colour Blanket
Colour 1 (C1): 8 balls
Colour 2 (C2): 1 ball
Colour 3 (C3): 1 ball
Colour 4 (C4): 1 ball
Colour 5 (C5): 1 ball

3-colour Blanket
Colour 1 (C1): 4 balls
Colour 2 (C2): 4 balls
Colour 3 (C3): 4 balls

Needles and notions

  • one each 3.75mm/US 5 and 4.5mm/US 7 circular needles, both 80cm/32ins long

  • stitch markers and yarn needle

Tension

19 sts and 34 rows to 10cm/4ins over diamond shadow pattern using 4.5mm needles.

 

Knitting techniques

  • casting on and off

  • working knit and purl stitches in the same row

  • garter stitch (every row knit stitch)

  • illusion (shadow) knitting

  • decreasing and increasing stitches (in mitred border)

  • knitting up stitches (side borders)

  • flat seam (for mitred borders)