I feel like I’m kinda jumping all around right now with blogging, but this post has been waiting a while. And I absolutely love the whole quilt block inspired knitted preemie blankets I’m working on! So, here it is:
One of my absolute favorite things to make is baby blankets! Seriously, I am excited just thinking about making one!! Whether it’s knitted, crocheted, quilted, you name it and it’s right up my alley.
I figured it would be fun to make up some preemie sized blankets for a few reasons. 1- Why not?? 2- Little babies need blankets too!! 3- You can always put smaller squares together to make a bigger blanket (lots of options here). 4- Who doesn’t love a quick & easy project sometimes that would totally benefit someone else??
Combining the look of basic quilt blocks with knitting just seemed so awesome, and thus the idea for these blankets arose. I also have a free pattern for a 4 square knitted preemie blanket if you’re interested in that too.
This blanket measures about 18 inches square.
Edited to add:
Materials:
-Aran weight yarn, I used 2 skeins of Adriafil Fluo which is 220 yards
-Size 7 needles
Pattern:
Cast on 87 stitches. Knit 6 rows. (The photo only shows 4 rows knit, but 6 looks/works much better)
Rows 7: knit 30 stitches, purl 27 stitches, knit 30 stitches.
Rows 8: knit 3 stitches, purl 27 stitches, knit 30 stitches, purl 27 stitches, knit 3 stitches.
Repeat last 2 rows until you get to row 42.
Row 43: same as row 7.
Row 44: same as row 8.
Repeat rows 7 and 8 again until row 77.
Row 78: same as row 7.
Row 79: same as row 8.
Repeat rows 7 and 8 again until row 112.
Knit 4 rows. Weave in ends.
Now you have a wonderful preemie sized blanket!
If you are looking for a wonderful group to donate these to you can look on the Giving Artfully, Greyson’s Gift, and Project Linus websites. Feel free to email me with any more charities that accept donated preemie sized blankets, I will be more than happy to add them to my charities page!
Edited to add: I would LOVE to see any blocks/projects you create with this pattern! Feel free to join & share in my Flickr group: Inspired By Blue Striped Room.
thank you i was looking for preemie patterns i knit for 1 of our hospitals and donate whatever i knit . so i appricate these blanket patterns .
You’re welcome! I love knitting for charity too.
Reblogged this on Giving Artfully and commented:
Great and adorable pattern for a preemie blanket. Can’t wait to try to make this!
Thanks!!
Hi! Any tips on how to make this bigger with out having to join two pieces together? It looks so cool!!!
Thanks
Sure! Each square within the block is 27 stitches wide by 36 stitches high. So, if you would like to double the size, just knit each square 54 stitches wide by 72 stitches high. If you want to triple it, just knit each square 81 stitches wide by 108 stitches high. Hope that helps!
so if I doubly the numbers in the your pattern, then I should be ok right?
Cast on 87 stitches. Knit 6 rows so I would cast on 174, knit 12 etc?
Yea, that should work! I haven’t test knit in that size yet though.
I cant follow your pattern I’m afraid…..row 7 = 87 stitches….row 8 =90 stitches…please help
There are no sources no increases or decreases in the pattern. You should be maintaining the 87 stitches the entire blanket.
I meant to say that there are no increases or decreases in the pattern.
I am having trouble with my numbers on row #8. You had us cast on 87sts but then on row #8 you say k3,p27,k30,p27,k3 and these numbers total to 90 so I think this pattern needs to be corrected.
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