Catnip for the knitter’s brain!
End date. I’m going to call it May 5, but as always, a good knitalong never ends. Start now, finish in.your own sweet time.
All the deets are here.
And I’ll park the pattern link here.
I can’t wait to see your ABC-Blankets taking shape, what yarns you’re using, what mods you’re dreaming up. Let’s go, this is going to be a blast!
Love,
Kay
This will go in my not right now pile but I love the idea.
I’m trying to think of wording for a banner…
I haven’t exactly dropped everything to knit this, but I am giving it a serious think. I’d like to do the blanket pattern with minimal alterations as a pillow cover — letters on one side, numbers & symbols on the other. I would need to achieve 9 stitches per inch. I have some Einband in stash that I think would work.
Can’t wait to try this, will stash dive later today and start tonight. It was very generous of Rudiger Schlomer to provide the pattern.
I went out and got a cotton-linen-viscose blend at my LYS and have basically dropped every thing else.
I love the idea of playing with words … if I knit one word … or a three-letter acronym, I have a chance of finishing it!!
Ooooh … gonna do it as a stash buster!!! I may just do random colors. Time to do a dive
Welp. I may have swatched, re-charted, and cast on. I do like that 3 out of 4 rows require no thought.
OK, I have dropped everything, oops I mean knitting wise, and starting on learning my alphabet! Fun!
This is a “save for later” project, but I’m thinking a quote scarf. I’ll have to play around to see what yarn and gauge won’t make a 20 foot long scarf, lol.
Hi alphabet-knitting friends! I was away for 5 nights and got zero stitches in on my ABC Blanket.
On my first day back, I jumped back in and completed the second row of type, which is all arrows. Isn’t she pretty?
I’ve just set up my markers and worked the first garter ridge of the third row, which is numbers 1-9. I’m so excited as the numbers are so lovely and they have lots of space in between them.
How are y’all doing? Sharing is caring!
xoxo Kay
If you’re looking for tips, one question that arises sometimes with the bold face figures, such as the upward arrow on the far left, is what do you do when you have to slip more than 3 stitches?
At the top of the upward arrow, there are 7 slipped stitches in one row. Do you strand the yarn across, leaving a big float? I think a float that long would hamper functionality of a blanket or towel, so I cut the background color (silver), then slipped the 7 stitches in navy (Stormy), then joined in a new strand of the background color to finish the row. When I got back to the 7 slipped stitches, I cut the background color again, and started in with a new strand on the other side of the 7 stitches. (If I’d had a second ball of Silver I could have left that hanging there and avoided 2 ends, but alas, I’m waiting on more Silver from Nashville.)
Anyway, my approach to slipping more than 3 or 4 stitches will be to treat that row as if I were working intarsia, and join in a second ball of the background. In this case, I had to do that just the one time in the whole row of arrows, so it’s no big deal.
I love how the bold-face figures look, so I don’t mind a few extra ends, but if you don’t want to do it, it would be easy to modify the bold-face arrow to a medium-weight arrow by working it like the arrow to the right of it, and interrupting the blocks of slipped stitches with background stitches in between.
Your color combo is so good, the contrast makes the figures extra legible!
Sharing is caring, eh? This has taken over my knitting time, Ms Temptress Kay. Here is a poor photo of my progress:
I’ve rejiggered the elements since I’m doing a pillow cover. I also decided to throw in some intarsia.
the only problem is it looks like chocolate and pistachio so I always get a little hungry while working on it 
oooh I love the asterisk!
