HARLEKIN BLANKET is knit flat back and forth using intarsia. Intarsia is a way to knit bigger sections in a contrasting colour in a single colour background. This is what creates the HARLEKIN blanket.
You only knit with one colour at a time. At the colour changes, the colours are twisted around each other to avoid gaps in the finished work. Every colour uses 1 skein in the appropriate colour. The colour changes are executed by placing the colour you come from above the new colour – this is done on both the right side (RS) and the wrong side (WS) of the work.
TIP! Rather than using the full skein for all 9 colours, you can wind small balls of approximately 7 g.
By knitting intarsia you avoid the long floats on the wrong side that you would get by knitting the same motif in stranded knitting (see the last picture, to see the back of the blanket).
The blanket is knitted in
ØKOLOGISK HVERDAGSULD.
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Final measurements:
Width: 11 cm including the crochet border. Without the border the width is 110 cm.
Length: 150 cm including the crochet border. Without the border the length is 144 cm.
Yarn: ØKOLOGISK HVERDAGSULD (Ecological Everyday wool) from CaMaRose.dk.
Required yardage: A total of 19 skeins divided on the following colours:
Colour 1 (main colour): 8 skeins. The sample uses
Kit (06).
Colour 2 – 9 (rhombus): 9 skeins in 9 different colours.
The sample uses the following colours:
Colour 2: Blågrøn (28)
Colour 3: Mørk okker (37)
Colour 4: Mintblå (50)
Colour 5: Mellemgrå (07)
Colour 6: Mintgrøn (27)
Colour 7: Lys sennep (39)
Colour 8: Koral (15)
Colour 9: Mørk sennep (40)
Colour 10: Pudder (13)
Colour 11 (edge): 2 skeins for the edge. The sample uses
Sølvgrå (08).
Suggested needles and crochet hook: Circular needle size 4 mm (100 cm) and crochet hook size 4 mm.
Gauge: 18 sts x 28 rows = 10 x 10 cm.
Crochet tension: Approximately 18 dc = 10 cm.
