Comments on: Blanket Knitting Pattern – Diagonal Basket Weave

By: lynn

lynn — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:11:59 +0000

hi Toni,

Your son will love this blanket, especially as it will be knit with Momma’s love!

O.K., I used an average of 3.5 stitches per inch for your Brava Bulky. With that, you would cast on 261 stitches to achieve the same dimensions. Of course, always a good idea to do a swatch to check your gauge.

And you should need about 1834 yards of yarn.

Do let me know if that answers all your questions and I’d love to see your finished blanket.

Happy Knitting!

Hugs, Lynn

By: Toni Wood MSN, RN

Toni Wood MSN, RN — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:13:43 +0000

Hi Lynn,
I am a much older (64 year old young at heart) experienced knitter like yourself only I have never designed patterns, although I have copied them (I am a nurse and have copied them from my residents or families and even store blankets, tweaking them using thicker or thinner yarns shh). I live in Connecticut USA which is on the east coast. The weather has finally started to turn cooler, though I am hoping to make your Diagonal Basket Weave Blanket for my youngest son (I have 5 children, a daughter and 4 sons, plus 4 furbabies, a German Shephard and Yellow Lab plus 2 cats). Off topic a bit here, sorry. My youngest son moved up closer to the Massachusetts state line and I really want to make him the blanket as he keeps his heat between 60 – 62 degrees F and want to use KnitPicks Brava Bulky yarn which has a gauge of: 3 – 3.75 sts = 1″ on size 10 – 11 needles with 136 yards per skein. Can you give me some guidance on how to go about making the blanket using this yarn and keeping the finished size of yours? I would really appreciate it and want to make it for him for Christmas. I hope you will also look at the yarns from KnitPicks.com I absolutely love their yarns and have bought from them to make Hats for the Homeless which I have dropped off at the Homeless shelter in our town as well as handed them out to the panhandlers. Please reach out to me as soon as possible so that I can have this blanket finished for Derek for Christmas. Much appreciated

By: lynn

lynn — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:15:45 +0000

In reply to Lisa Ogilvie. Thanks Lisa!

By: Lisa Ogilvie

Lisa Ogilvie — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 10:16:13 +0000

In reply to lynn. After you download the pattern, go into print preview and change the setting in there from print "all" to just print the pages the pattern is on, this is done by simply typing page 1-3 or 2-4 whatever is necessary in the line under print all option. Leaving the print all option checked can waste plenty of ink, paper and time, you'll be so happy you changed it. Hope this helps, happy knitting.

By: lynn

lynn — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 22:40:17 +0000

In reply to PJ.

Happy Saturday PJ!

I am so happy that you are going to try your hand at this pattern! I am very happy to help you along the way.

1. Both the cast on and cast off (bind-off) row are NOT counted as rows.
2. As it relates to your yarn question, that’s a little harder to answer right off the bat. My gut is that it would work to double a worsted, you would get very close to a bulky weight. What I would do is knit a swatch in a doubled worsted weight and see what you think. And I would knit it using a US 15 needle (10mm) needle.
Let me know what you think and don’t hesitate to ask more questions!

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:58:54 +0000

Hello Lynn:
I refer to myself as a “barely competent” knitter ☺️, but this is such a beautiful blanket and you have described & demo’d it so wonderfully (Thanks SO Much for sharing!) that I think I could pull this off … IF I take my time & FOCUS!
I have 2 questions:
1) I also only know the long tail cast on. But I’ve never really been able to figure out if the cast on is considered the 1st row (knit side?) of the pattern? Or if it’s just considered as a “base” and after you cast on the required number of stitches, then the next row is the 1st row of the pattern?
(1b: same question as applied to the cast off? Sorry for sneaking in third question😳)
And 2: If I use a washable worsted wt type of yarn (such as Caron or Lion Brand One Pound skeins of yarn) and knit with double strands…Do you think that would be a close enough equivalent to your bulky yarn?
(2b: Yikes! A 4th question? If you think doubling the yarn strands of the above type yarns is a viable option….would you go up a needle size … or 2??)
I would really appreciate your thoughts & feedback on these questions, but even if you don’t have the time for my probably silly questions; THANK YOU AGAIN for this WONDERFUL pattern & post!!
PJ

By: lynn

lynn — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:33:28 +0000

In reply to Carol. Hi Carol, I completely see the confusion. So...I produced the video and then decided to add another stitch to the pattern to avoid chances of curling. The last K1 of the 5 stitches actually starts the diagonal pattern. I will go in and clear that up; sorry for the confusion.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:39:22 +0000

Hi Lynn,
Just started the diagonal basket blanket. Confused on the beginning and ending rows. Video says work seed on first three stitches and last three. PDF says last four stitches. The beginning of each row shows five stitches before beginning pattern. Help!

By: lynn

lynn — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:46:00 +0000

In reply to Linda Söderström.

Hi Linda,

I completely understand! With this pattern, I would just slowly take 2 stitches off at a time and uncross them. When you knit them the first time, you knit in pairs of stitches, crossing one over the other. Just slowly undo those pairs, one at a time until you get to your error. Does that make sense?

Keep me posted!

Lynn

By: Linda Söderström

Linda Söderström — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 12:10:10 +0000

In reply to lynn. I made some wrong stitches a little bit back, so I need to go back to that wrong part and do it right. I don’t want to take the stitches of the needles, frog and then put the stitches back on the needles again. I want to reverse one stitch at a time, all the way to my error, and past it. Then I can work forward, correct the mistake and keep knitting in pattern. It’s hard to explain. If I don’t make myself understood, I will try to make a video..