Cheryl's Blankie

Knitting has such a great community. All of these people with the same knowledge of forming a stitch out of a couple of sticks and some string. One basic stitch, the knit stitch. There is the purl stitch as well but as Elizabeth says, that is just a backwards knit stitch done on the wrong side of the fabric. And there are a million different ways these two stitches can be combined.



My little Elann.com knitting community came together and made a blanket for Cheryl. The concept was simple. Each person was to make a square that had a non-curling edge and whatever stitch pattern they wanted for the middle.



You want lace? Knit lace. You want to do cables? Do cables. You want a simple stitch pattern? Keep it simple. Then it hit me. All of these different stitch patterns are basically the same 2 stitches combined differently. And you want to know what is even more amazing? All of the squares just seem to “go” together.



We decided on Devon by Elann.com in pinks, purples, and browns. When it was complete, we no longer had a "blankie" but a work of art.