By now we’ve probably all seen giant blankets knit with roving or many strands of yarn held together, worked with arm knitting or using giant knitting needles.
Both of those are valid methods, but here’s another thing to try if you don’t want to have a giant blanket hanging on your arm for a couple of hours or to hold the weight of a big blanket on a pair of knitting needles.
Lily Ardor made her chunky knit blanket using a sort of finger knitting technique in which the loops are pulled up across the row, then you make more loops to go inside those loops. Because roving sticks to itself pretty easily you don’t have to worry about the stitches dropping before you get back to them.
This is an interesting idea and might be an easier way to do it for people who can’t hold all that weight (she says her blanket is about 7 pounds) on their arms while they work, because this way it can sit on a table as you work.
Have you knit one of these giant blankets? I’d love to know how you did it.
[Photo: Lily Ardor.]
