New Baby Blanket Pattern

[ciarrai]

Here it is, photos and the pattern for my latest baby blanket, a bright, cheery checkerboard with pretty little butterflies on it. I thought that it would a nice addition to any little girl's nursery.

UPDATE 2/24/12: Some of you have commented about errors in the pattern. I have updated this post with all the corrections that I have found. I

Comments

[anonymous]

Dear Ciarri
As my granddaughter's room has a butterfly theme I was very excited to find your flutterby blanket pattern. I am however having difficulty following the pattern.
The SSK abbreviation according to my knowledge means slip 1 slip 1 knit the 2 slipped st tog? However when I do this on the 1st pattern row, I end up with 2st too many ie 18 st i.s.o 16st remaining after 2nd (YO)X2. I therefore end the 1st row with 60 st which is the correct number for the 2nd row. What I did however was K21 st i.s.o. 19st in the middle of the 1st row. Then in the 3rd row I had to knit 18 i.s.o. 17 in the middle, ending therefore with 60 st i.s.o. 59.
Where am I going wrong?
Kind regards
Karen Barnard

[ciarrai]

There was a typo in the first row. (Sorry about that)

It should read:

ROW 1: (RS) K16, K2T, (YO) 2X, SSK, K19, K2T, (YO) 2X, SSK, K16

Thanks for catching that for me.

flutterby pattern

[anonymous]

you said this was typing error in 1st row but you have written it exactly same as first row says????

Re: flutterby pattern

[ciarrai]

There was a typing error in the first row but I had edited it so that it now had the correct text.

New Baby Blanket

[anonymous]

I am unclear as to how to do the following pattern stitches: what does it mean to SSK? I assume the (YO) 2X means to yarn over two times, correct?

June

Re: New Baby Blanket

[ciarrai]

SSK = Slip, Slip, Knit those two together (through the front of the loops)

Here is a demo of how to do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGwcYW3GG3M

2x = do the action 2 times. So you are correct. You would YO twice.

Re: New Baby Blanket

[anonymous]

I love this pattern...Thank you for it and for the video. I was slipping the stitches like a normal slip and then knitting the one after that lol. I was wondering why I was getting too many or too little stitches on the following rows!

[anonymous]

I am on row 23 and I am confused as to what to do

[ciarrai]

There was a typing error. Where it said Knit 25, It really should have been K2T. It has now been corrected.

new way of doing it.

[anonymous]

i am trying it this way i am taken this pattern and adding a marker then starting the pattern again and then one more time so that i dont have to put them together will let you know how it works out.

Stuck...on row 3 of motiff

[anonymous]

Ok so if I do row two, I end up with 60 stitches. That's the math

P13, K1, P22, K1, P13, K5
5+ 13 + 1 + 22 + 1 + 13 + 5 = 60 stitches.

However, on row 3 you end up with there supposed to be 59 stitches, and I am doing it exactly has directed; however, the stitches don't match up. I end up lopsided - 19 on one side and 20 on the other.

ROW 3: K19, YO, SSK, K17, K2T, YO, K19

19 + 1 + 1 (SSK = 1) + 17 + 1 (K2T = 1) + 1 + 19
= 59

It just isn't working for me...do you have an idea of what I could be doing wrong?

Re: Stuck...on row 3 of motiff

[ciarrai]

I have no way of contacting you since you haven't left any contact info but in case you check here again, there was an error in the 2nd row which has been corrected above. Sorry about that.