When both of my sisters-in-law announced they were pregnant within months of each other, my Mom and I knew there’d be lots of knitting to do! Mom brought each of them to the store to pick colors for our Wave Blanket.
After finishing both blankets, Mom realized she liked the blanket so much that she wanted to do it again. So here’s number 3 -
Wave Blanket in bright colors of Blue Sky Worsted Cotton
I love the bright rainbow colors!
Mom says it’s the combination of the easy-to-memorize feather and fan pattern and the softness of Blue Sky Alpaca’s Worsted Cotton yarn that makes this blanket so much fun to knit. We stock all of the colors, so you can make dozens of color combinations.
yarnovers and decreases give the Wave Blanket it's curves
Here’s the pattern if you’d like to knit one yourself!
WAVE BLANKET
SIZE
approximately 33” by 39”
MATERIALS
6 hanks of Blue Sky Alpaca’s Worsted Cotton
40 inch US 9 circular needle
GAUGE
16 sts = 4 inches in stockinette stitch, but gauge is not critical for this project
ABBREVIATIONS
K – knit
P – purl
K2tog – knit the next 2 stitches together as one stitch.
STITCH PATTERN
Row 1 (right side) – knit
Row 2 – purl
Row 3 – *(K2tog) 3 times, (yo, k1) 6 times, (k2tog) 3 times; repeat from * to end.
Row 4 – knit.
Repeat Rows 1 to 4.
BLANKET PATTERN
CO 144 stitches. Repeat pattern. Change to new color after finishing Row 4 of pattern.
Bind off loosely and weave in ends.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: In the time since we knit our first Wave Blanket, Blue Sky has added lots of fun colors to the Worsted Cotton palette. They’ve also introduced Blue Sky Multi Cotton yarn; it’s the same organic cotton but in tonal shades. There is less yardage in a skein of Multi Cotton, so the bands on the blanket will be narrower than those in solids. I think having bands of varying width will look great! 7/30/2011
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ive just started to work this blanket the best way i remember on row 3 is k2tog 3 times then yok1 6 times,k2tog 6 times, yok1 6 times all the way across the row then last 6 stitches is k2tog 3 times
this is a very pretty blanket thank you for the pattern im making this for me
I made one out of a bunch of scrap worsted weight I had when I knew I would be moving in a few months and was needing to get some things either used up, given away, etc. FANTASTIC results! I love the multicolor look, and my husband and I use the blanket all the time when we’re at home watching TV, taking a nap on the couch, reading, etc.
Please clarify how many rows of each color. Thanks.
There are 8 repeats of the four-row pattern in each color.
how do you keep it from decreasing. I don’t understand it. I would like to create this blanket but all I see is that you keep decreasing on the fourth row. why are there no instructions on how to add extra stitches to keep it from decreasing. I would really like to know. Could you clarify this form me thank you
Kelsey, the yarn overs are increases, so your stitch count never changes.
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