I saw some super-cute Bernat Baby Blanket yarn at Jo-Ann around Easter. The colorway I was interested in is Chicks and Bunnies. It's basically white with yellow (chicks) and gray (bunnies) scattered around. I have never seen this colorway anywhere else, and I only saw it at Jo-Ann that one time.
When I was working on it at a knitting group, I mentioned that I thought the seed stitch sections looked like chopped hard-boiled eggs that had been overcooked and had that little gray ring around the yolk. They christened it the Egg Salad Blanket.
This is an easy blanket, knit using only garter and seed stitches. I made mine with three 300 gram balls of the yarn. I used US 13, 9mm needles. My blanket has holes, so if I was starting it over again today, I would use size 11 or even 10.5 needles for a tighter fabric. I sewed a tag made of satin blanket binding into the blanket, because my granddaughter loves to feel the tags while she sucks her thumb.
Please forgive the green-tinged spot. My camera does that under fluorescents.
I have made the pattern available on Ravelry, named Egg Salad Blanket, if anyone is interested in having it. Free Ravelry Download Egg Salad Blanket Pattern
This is what the .pdf file says, if you don't want to download the .pdf from there.
THE PATTERN:
1. Weigh your first ball of yarn, which should be close to 300 grams, and make a note of the actual weight.
2. Cast on 75 stitches on a circular needle that can accommodate a piece of this width. You will not be joining in the round.
3. Knit each row for 10 rows. (Garter stitch).
4. After completing the 10th row, weigh your ball of yarn again and subtract the result from the beginning weight. This will tell you how much yarn you will need when you are ready to finish the piece, with another 10 rows of garter stitch.
5. Set up row: k5, place marker, k1, p1, continuing for 65 stitches (to the last 5), place marker, k5. This will set you up to create a garter stitch border along the sides with the center being seed stitch over an odd number of stitches, enabling you to begin and end each row of the center section with a knit stitch.
6. Continue in pattern, the same for every row: k5, slip marker, k1, p1 for 65 stitches, slip marker, k5.
7. Attach the second and third balls of yarn when required.
8. As you near the end of your project, weigh the remainder of the last ball of yarn, reserving at least the same amount you used to cast on and knit your first 10 rows of garter stitch.
9. When you have used all but the amount you have reserved, knit 10 rows of garter stitch and bind off loosely. An easy loose bind-off is Grandma’s Favorite, which can be found on YouTube. Weave in the ends.
10. You can wash the blanket in cool or warm water and machine dry it on low heat.
