Patchwork Throw

At this time of the year I like to knit a throw to combine knitting and warmth.  I designed a modular knitted throw last year and intended to knit it using all 20 shades of Sirdar Escape dk.   This year I have made a start on it.  I am using 5mm needles to produce a lighter fabric.  The throw consists of 4 garter-stitch shapes made into a square.

 

Then the square is repeated to form a long strip of 7 squares. 

The throw will eventually consist of 7 strips - so 49 squares in total.  At the time of writing I am working on my 4^th strip and so far - due to the random nature of the yarn - no square is the same.

 

Welcome to my knitting blog

I hope to write as often as I can about the knitwear designs that I am working on and about other things that may interest fellow knitters.  I am particularly interested in modular knitting and have been using both new yarn and odd balls left over from other projects to make colourful patchwork creations.

As the new year started I was looking through my jumpers trying to find something warm to wear and I came across the one shown below – which I knitted last year and then forgot about because the weather was too hot to wear it.  It was knitted in one of my favourite yarns - Sirdar Escape DK -which is now sadly discontinued.

 

Later in the year I hope to make another version of this jumper using several different shades of this yarn.  I also hope to get better at taking photos!