Merino yarn with the thickest thread has managed to win more than one heart with its fabulous blankets. This is not only a beautiful detail in the interior, but also a chic, very warm blanket. You will love spending time at home with such a cozy footprint. And the color of the product can be easily matched to the surrounding interior.
Giant yarn - merino wool and knitting needles
Merino yarn is a natural fiber; it is also suitable for making children's products, because it will not cause allergies and will be very soft.
There are also disadvantages to this fiber. For example, these are pellets, but they easily go away after treatment. Also, many consider it a disadvantage that large blankets cannot be washed in a machine; they will need dry cleaning.
Just how charming they are in any interior, that even if there are a hundred flaws in this blanket, the craftsmen will not refuse them.
To work with this thread, use knitting needles from 25 mm and just your hands.
Hand knitting a merino wool blanket
Hand knitting occurs according to the principle of working with knitting needles.Where the right hand is the worker with the knitting needles in the right hand, and the left hand is the assistant.
A set of loops is also made with knitting needles.
Blanket sizes and yarn count
It is very difficult to guess with sizes in thick yarn. The fact is that craftsmen do not knit from it very often. More often, finer fiber is used. In order for every craftsman to be able to knit such a cute, thick and simply stunning blanket, these dimensions are given.
Quantity of merino yarn in kg for blankets:
- 80*120 = 2 kg;
- 100*150= 3 kg;
- 130*170 = 4.5 kg;
- 150*200 = 6 kg.
How to knit a blanket with huge knitting needles (pipes) step by step?
Not all knitters are ready to give way to their hands and still create such marks with knitting needles. In this work, circular knitting needles with the largest diameter are used. You can choose a different pattern for the mark, but there will be limits regarding the width of the repeat. Since the thread is voluminous, you can never make many loops in a row.
Even braids are suitable for work. But more often, such blankets are based on simple fabrics (front stitches or only purl loops), and various elastic bands are possible. For example, elastic band 2*2 or 1*1. You can also find a combination of elastic and flat knit fabric.
Many blankets have already been created by craftsmen with a stockinette pattern. But the 1*2 elastic band is very rare. Therefore, the description of the mark below will be in the pattern of a cute elastic band.
To work you will need:
- thick merino yarn from 8 kg;
- knitting needles according to thread thickness, from 25 mm in diameter.
Measurements
For this work, you only have to measure the density of the knitting. The size of this product is 200*200 cm.
Sample
To select the correct size, it is better to knit a small sample in the form of a square and calculate the knitting density for it.Count vertically (these will be rows) and horizontally (these will be elastic loops). Count how many loops there will be in 10 cm. Don’t be scared by numbers like 2 by 3, since the loops are too voluminous.
Description
Make a set according to the appropriate calculations, based on your density. Then make a set of loops and add 2 edge loops.
Knitting begins immediately with the elastic pattern:
- 1st row: chrome/p, knit/p, 2 p/p (repeat knit and p/p in the same order), chrome/p.
- 2nd row: chrome/p, purl/p, 2 knits/p (repeat the order of such purls and knits/p), chrome/p.
Important! Be sure to observe the multiplicity of loops when casting on. It is necessary that all loops be a multiple of 3 and plus 2 for the edge loops.
Using this technique, tie the required number of rows; it is better to measure up to 2 meters as you knit.
Harness
To prevent the blanket from stretching, it is better to tie it with special loops along the entire edge using a strong cotton thread that does not stretch.
So the cute blanket is ready. The sizes are large, and therefore they can be used to cover a sofa, spread out for small children to play with, or spread over the entire double bed. In any case, it will make the interior very unusual.
If you have never done such voluminous things, then carefully look at the instructions. And don't be deterred by difficult work. In creating this trace, only the threads will be the heaviest.
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