Two Tone Blanket Knit Scarf

I was really excited when I saw a tweet from Blogging Edge about a project for knitters & crotcheters! I love knitting, I find it very therapeutic and love that I can turn a ball of yarn into anything I want. I don’t do it as often as I would like, as the repetitive motion causes me problems with my hands & more recently my shoulder, as a result of my EDS. I haven’t knitted anything for the past year, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to much myself to getting my needles out again & turn my hand to making a two tone blanket knit scarf.

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I was able to choose two balls of wool from the Cosy Wool website to make my scarf. I decided that grey would be perfect for winter & go well with all my clothes & my coat. Because I wanted to incorporate two shades, I went for the Cygnet Pato Double Knit wool in Dark Grey 916* & Light Grey 917*, which cost £1.09 each. The needles I used were 4mm, which I already owned.

I decided to use blanket knit stitch. In this instance I used 4 knit stitches & 4 purl stitches, 4 knit stitches & 4 purl stitches. I did this for 5 rows & then swopped to start with 4 purl stitches then 4 knit stitches. Initially, I didn’t understand how to place the wool when changing between a knit & a purl stitch, so the practice knit I started with ended up in a bit of a mess. When you finish a knit stitch, you need to move the wool infant of the needle ready to start your purl. When you finish a purl stitch, you need to move your wool behind the needle to start your knit. As I often find it easier to learn by watching rather than from a description, I thought I would put together a little video clip to demonstrate.

For this pattern to work & have an even number of squares, you need to cast on stitches in multiples of 8. As I wanted to create a thick scarf, I chose 64 stitches. I decided to create squares with my 2 shades of grey as well as in the pattern. Because the width of my scarf consisted of 16 squared, I decided to make the length of each block of colour 16 squares too. To join one colour to another I knitted a row at the end of the square I had been working on & purled the initial line with the next colour. I then continued with my blanket weave pattern.

I am really pleased with my scarf. I would have liked it to be a little longer, but I didn’t have enough of wool to add extra squares. I do intend to purchase some more of both of these colours so I can make my scarf longer in the future.

Can you believe I made this for less than £5!?! Do you knit? If so, what should I make next & what stitches should I try?

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