Learn-to-Love-Steeks Blanket

The Learn-to-Love-Steeks Blanket uses the process of steeking or cutting your knit work in the round to make a hole in the fabric, to make one cool blanket. This free knit blanket pattern is put together like one big striped sleeve and then cut down the middle so it can lie flat, like a blanket! This afghan is an intermediate knitting pattern and is more about pushing the limits of what the craft can do than putting together a nice afghan. The blanket, in the end, is just a bonus!

Knitting Needle Size4 or 3.5 mm, 8 or 5 mm, Circular Knitting Needles

Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)

GaugeIMPORTANT: Make sure that whatever yarn you use the stitch gauge of Yarn C equals the row gauge of Yarns A and B.

Yarn A and Yarn B: 17 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch on larger needles

Yarn C: 24 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch on smaller needles