Big Knit Mitered Square Blanket

I get a lot of questions and comments about my tutorial for the knit mitered square sock blanket using leftover sock yarn.  You can find the tutorial on the tab under my blog header here.  I know this is mainly my quilting blog (my crochet blog is here), but since I have the tutorial for the sock yarn blanket on one of the pages on this blog under my header, I thought I would post this here.

Our local yarn store, Mass Ave Knits, here in downtown Indianapolis, started doing a larger version of this mitered square using Liberty Wool yarn.  When I started this, Liberty was coming out with 2 new colors of yarn each month (and they still may be).   I started that project with the Liberty yarn, but in the meantime I found this Bernat Super Value Stripes yarn.  Since this blanket will be used by a child, I think the Bernat yarn will work just fine.  Plus, the colors are more vivid.  Any worsted weight yarn would work, but I chose this because of the stripes.

Here is a comparison between my mitered square sock blanket (still not finished) and the larger mitered squares.

I'm using 4 different color ways of the yarn for the big squares.

Each of these larger squares measures approximately 12 inches.  

They can be set with the same layout as my sock yarn blanket joining the squares as you knit.  Or,  they can be whip stitched together into squares like this.  I still haven't decided how I will put these together.  I may stitch 4 of the same block together to make larger squares of one color way when I have more of them completed.




Pattern for 12" mitered square.

This square is made the same as the squares in my tutorial that are done with sock yarn.

Size 8 circular knitting needle 24" long

Cast on 93 stitches.  

Row 1.  Knit 1 row.  Turn.

Row 2.  Knit 45, Double Decrease, place marker, knit to end. Turn.

Row 3. (Wrong side row)  Knit to marker, slip marker, Purl 1, knit to end.  Turn

Row 4.  Knit to 2 stitches before marker, double decrease, knit to end.  

Repeat rows 3 and 4 until there is 1 stitch left on the needle.  

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today.

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