SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Caron Jumbo: Main Color (MC) Easter Basket Varg, 6 balls
- Caron One Pound: Contrast A Fig, 1 ball
- Sizes U.S. 8 (5 mm) and U.S. 13 (9 mm) circular knitting needles 36" long or sizes needed to obtain gauge
- Crochet hook for fringe.
- MEASUREMENTS: Approx 50"x 60", excluding fringe.
- GAUGES:
- 10 sts and 19 rows = 4" in garter st with 2 strands held together and larger needles.
- 14 sts and 20 rows = 4" in Lace Edging pat with 1 strand and smaller needles.
DIRECTIONS:
BLANKET
With 2 strands MC held tog and larger needles, cast on 125 sts.Work in garter st (knit every row) until work from beg measures 57".
Cast off.
TOP LACE EDGING
NOTE:Lace Edging is worked over multiple of 2 sts + 3.
With A, smaller needles and RS facing, pick up and knit 175 sts evenly along top edge of Blanket.
1st row: (WS). Purl.
2nd row: K2. *yo. K2tog. Rep from * to last st. K1.
3rd row: Purl.
Rep last 2 rows twice more.
Loosely cast off.
BOTTOM LACE EDGING
As for Top Lace Edging along bottom edge of Blanket.FINISHING
Fringe: Cut strands of A 10" long. Taking 3 strands tog, fold in half and knot into fringe through every 2nd st (aligned with each K2tog st) along edge of Top and Bottom Lace Edging. Trim fringe evenly.ABBREVIATIONS
Approx = Approximately
Beg = Begin(ning)
K = Knit
K2tog = Knit next 2 stitches together
P = Purl
Pat = Pattern
Rep = Repeat
RS = Right side
St(s) = Stitch(es)
Tog = Together
WS = Wrong side
Yo = Yarn over