Beautiful Baby Blankets to Knit

Honey Bee Bears, a designer on Etsy, has more than 40 years of knitting experience and has been designing for 12 years.

They specialize in baby blankets with lots of textured stitches and lace. They are based in England, and you can find their Etsy store here.

The pictured blanket is the Primrose baby blanket pattern, but there are so many cute ones it will be hard for you to choose the one you want to knit!

Looking for more information on knitting baby blankets? A couple of books I like are Knitted Baby Blankets and Cuddle Bags by Marta Skadsheim Torkildsen and 60 More Quick Baby Blankets (these patterns are all worked with Cascade 128 and Cascade 220 yarns, so they stitch up super fast compared to baby blankets worked on finer yarn). And of course our easy baby knits ebook includes a fun blanket pattern, too.

If you’d rather go your own way with blanket design, check out these awesome tips for knitting a baby blanket in any yarn and size you like.

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If you’re looking for a fun project to play with brioche knitting, check out the My Buddy knitting pattern/recipe from Casuarinagirl on Ravelry.

This project doesn’t include a brioche tutorial, so it’s good to know the basics, including how to increase and decrease, but you can always practice on a swatch before you start the project if you want.

The design is meant to be flexible for the yarn you have and what size and shape of project you want to make, from a skinny neck scarf to a asymmetrical triangle or a more classic triangular shape.

The shape you end up with will depend on how often you increase (and then decrease on the other side). The pattern mentions increasing every fourth, fifth or six row (and the one shown increases and decreases every sixth row) but you can do it even more or less often depending on the shape you’re looking for an how much yarn you want to use.

You can work to whatever depth you would like, or use almost half of the yarn you have set aside for the project and begin decreasing.

When it comes to yarn, she used three strands of yarn held together to make a super fluffy shawl, but you can work it with whatever yarn and needles you like to make a wrap that’s all your own.

If you are new to brioche (or to increasing and decreasing in brioche) it might be a good idea to make a little scarf or head wrap first before diving in to the bigger pattern, just so you’re more comfortable with the technique. Or just give it a go; nothing about brioche knitting is that difficult. (But you might want to use a lifeline because I find brioche hard to rip out or fix mistakes in properly.)

You can grab the free pattern for the Buddy Wrap on Ravelry.

[Photo: Casuarinagirl]

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