Blanket The Town

A Make-it-Your-Own knitted blanket pattern, with video tutorials, a KAL, and opportunities to contribute your own ideas and designs

Get the pattern

Buy the pattern here. This 59-page pattern has full written instructions, hot-links to video tutorials, an 18-page photo tutorial of knitting techniques at the back, and my signature construction diagrams to show you what to do, step-by-step. There are video tutorials too, with more coming.

Errata

Join the Fun

Join the KAL on Facebook. Share and see photos of blankets in all stages and colors, get feedback and help. Enter for give-aways and contests and meet new friends. Get access to our meetups on Zoom. Access previously recorded meetups.

Design Your own

There are so many possibilities for customizing this blanket by adding new block designs and embellishments. Make it look like your town by adding a Strip featuring things your Town is known for like: a lake, some landmark buildings, or your house and street. How about a holiday-specific blanket done up with decorations for Christmas or Halloween?

In this section we have guidelines for creating your own Block design.

Block Basics

Blocks should be worked in garter stitch. Stockinette and stitch patterns that combine knits, purls, yarn overs, etc on the same row do not match the row and stitch relationship or the texture of garter stitch.

In garter stitch, the height of 2 knitted rows equals the width of 1 st. And 2 knitted rows is called a ridge.

Block Sizes

Block width should be a multiple of 13 stitches (sts)/ridges, so these Block widths can be used: 13, 26, 39, 52, etc.

Block heights are 66 sts/ridges in the pattern. If you want to use a different Block height, all Blocks in a Strip should be that new height.