Color Block Duffle Coat and Matching Blanket

The COLOUR BLOCK DUFFLE AND BLANKET IN SNUGGLY DK is an adorable and cozy set that is perfect for keeping your little one warm and stylish. The double-breasted duffle coat features raglan sleeves and is paired with a coordinating blanket, both are part of the Building Blocks collection of modern knitting patterns for babies.

The pattern is easy to follow and suitable for newer knitters, using basic garter stitch throughout. The blanket offers a great introduction to the intarsia technique, which is used to neatly join blocks of color with no gaps. The Snuggly DK yarn is soft and gentle against the baby’s skin, making it perfect for baby garments.

It is also easy to care for, machine washable and available in a wide range of colors, making it easy to customize the set to your liking.

This pattern is a great choice for knitters who want to create a cute and cozy set for their baby, with a easy and fun to knit design.

The duffle coat and blanket set is perfect for colder weather and versatile enough to wear casually or dressed up. It can also remind you of Paddington Bear, the famous fictional character who is known for his duffle coat and hat.

So, grab your needles and yarn and get ready to create a beautiful and functional set that will be a staple in your baby’s wardrobe for years to come.

Get the pattern here: COLOUR BLOCK DUFFLE AND BLANKET IN SNUGGLY DK

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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