How to knit blankets: patterns and a description of several simple patterns

With the onset of autumn, many craftswomen set aside their cotton and viscose underlays and are taken to make warm products. The time has come for scarves, hats, mittens, slippers and blankets.

In addition to clothing and decor, you can also knit blankets. The schemes and description of such products are quite simple, because in fact they are just rectangular canvases with some kind of pattern.

Each knitter will be able to choose a suitable pattern for herself, depending on her taste, as well as available experience and skills.

Natural yarn for plaid

Based on the main purpose of knitted blankets, it is worthwhile to select material with a high content of wool, mohair or angora for them. Of course, there are strings made of acrylic, polyamide, microfiber or polyester that look very attractive and visually resemble real wool. But do not be tempted by the external resemblance, since artificial fibers can never provide warmth and comfort to a person who is wrapped in a plaid. Although this does not mean that 100% woolen thread is the best option. This material has several unpleasant disadvantages:

1. Such products are heavy and dry for a long time ..
2. They are subject to shrinkage after washing.
3. They can quickly become covered with spools.
4. To collect enough material, the craftswoman will have to fork out.

The benefits of artificial fibers

As already mentioned, it is not recommended to knit products made entirely of synthetic materials. They will be short-lived and “cheap” in appearance. It is better to use blended yarn. The optimal combination: 50% natural fibers (wool, angora, mohair, cotton, viscose, silk) and 50% artificial (acrylic, nylon, polyamide and others).

Synthetic components give the material strength, reduce the total weight of the product and significantly reduce its cost. And when using such materials beautiful and comfortable knitted blankets are obtained. With knitting needles (with schemes and a description of this work can be found in the article), they knit pretty quickly and without much difficulty.

Patterns and ornaments

Having set the goal to knit a blanket or plaid, you can easily get lost in the sea, more precisely, the ocean of various patterns and patterns. To facilitate the task, it is worth decomposing it into simpler components:

1. Decide on the type of canvas (solid, openwork).
2. Find out the type of yarn (smooth, boucle, plain or melange).
3. Select a pattern level (simple, medium, or complex).
4. Outline the termination of work.

In the case when the craftswoman has decent experience, prefers plain yarn and has unlimited time to complete the task, she can afford an ornament of medium or high complexity. For example, braids or a composition of several patterns.

Using such an ornament, you can knit an adult or children's plaid with knitting needles (a diagram, description, photo and basic recommendations are provided for your attention).

Simple canvases are most often preferred by beginners or those craftswomen who want to quickly complete the task.

Knit blankets : patterns and description of elementary patterns

The photo below depicts a plaid that is made of garter stitch. A mottled melange thread was used for work. As a rule, such yarn is used to create just such canvases, because no more complex ornament will be noticeable.

To make the product not look quite simple, it was knitted from the corner. This means that only a few loops served as the beginning (3-5). In each second row on both sides (at the beginning and at the end) one loop was added. When the triangle became equilateral, they began to cut it. The reduction of the loops was performed in the same way as before they were added (two in each second row). As a result, the stripes on the plaid are located diagonally. At the end of the work, the perimeter was crocheted.

Another popular pattern is called “checkerboard”. Its principle is a combination of front and back loops.

The number of loops and rows in the rapport can be any: the more they are, the larger each cell will be.

Using the following figures, you can create any rugs with knitting needles (diagrams and descriptions can serve as instructions or as inspiration).

Tying blankets and blankets

When the main canvas is finished, it must be tied. For this purpose, the hook is the best fit. It allows you to hide flaws and adjust the imperfect shape of the product.

By the way, if the craftswoman does not own this tool, she can use knitting needles. In this case, she will have to include the binding in the calculation of the pattern in order to perform it simultaneously with the main canvas. Various types of elastic bands, “rice”, scarf knitting or lace are suitable for making a border on knitting blankets. The schemes and description of the following patterns will also be useful to many craftsmen.

Plaid for the lazy

The most desperate knitters who need the finished product “for yesterday” can be advised to purchase a very, very thick yarn. Working with such material is not easy, but the growth of the canvas is extremely fast.

It should be noted that at the moment such blankets are considered a trend. Here, no patterns for knitting a plaid with knitting needles with a description are needed, since the pattern is a garter or hosiery knitting.