If you hadn’t forgotten, this is still a knitting blog! I’m still knitting! I saw a friend’s version of this pattern and absolutely loved it (hi JJ!). I did a yellow version and a blue version. I gifted the yellow to a friend – here are some snapshots of it before I sent it off:

At first, when I was knitting it up, it was hugely boring. This is the easiest, most boring lace you will ever do. Which means, it’s probably great for a knitter who wants to start off lace but is intimidated. This is the pattern for you. By the time you get to the edging, you will be SO GLAD to have a change in pattern and a change in yarn color! This is definately a TV knitting kind of pattern. Seriously.

But even though I complained about it being so incredibly boring, the edging was really fun to do. And not only that, there is absolutely no sewing involved! None! I love how it looks. So I was completely back in love with the pattern after the first blanket was done. So I did another, but in blue (I will also gift this to friends – hopefully they don’t see this post before then!).

Spread out on the floor:

Draped on my bannister:

The center (this is where you cast-on and knit from, on dpn’s):

The pretty edging:

Underneath the edging (remember, no sewing involved!!):

Pretty, ain’t it?? It was so much fun. Although, now that I’ve shown you all the pretty pictures, I do have to give you a low-down on how the pattern went. You can purchase it here, but for some, it may not be very intuitive to understand (I had to read it a good handful of times to understand certain parts).

If you DO get the pattern, here are a couple tips:

1. When knitting the blanket, you start off with working the chart, reading from bottom to top, right to left, on every single row. Once you are finished with the chart, instead of going back to the bottom row of the chart and literally doing the chart over and over again, the pattern actually means that you continue the chart in that manner until you get the correct number of stitches (113 sts in each of the four sections, which is 452 sts total for the whole row). This means you have to watch how the pattern repeats itself in a certain way while it progresses and just knit according to that.

2. In the Edging section, first sentence, it refers to “working increases”, but doesn’t explicitly say how to do those increases. The increases are done as kfb (knit in front and back of stitch)…. and don’t worry, it looks okay. Although, when you first do it, it’ll be on a purl row, and there’s a different way to do it on a purl row that I found on knittinghelp.com (scroll down to “bar increases”).

3. In the Edging section, 7th sentence, it says “Change to smaller needles”. It freaked me out because I thought this whole time I was on the wrong size needles. I think it actually means, change to SHORTER needles (length-wise, not needle size). But this is up to you, how much room you have/need, etc.

4. In the Edging section, in the bind off section, it says to “Bind off ridiculously loose”. Yes, bind off really loose, but to help with that, you use a size 8 needle to bind off (size 8 dpns were listed as a needed material item in the start of the pattern, but isn’t mentioned anywhere else). So I used a size 8 needle and just did the bind off slightly loose, and that was good enough.