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Color Block Duffle Coat and Matching Blanket

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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

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Patchwork Blanket Knitting Patterns

Any time of year is a good time for stash busting, but if you can combine it with knitting a blanket that will keep you warm when it (finally!) gets cooler that’s even better. Let’s take a look at some fun patchwork blanket knitting patterns. 

If you want to keep it super simple, you can just make blocks of garter stitch and sew them together, like the beginner’s patchwork baby blanket from Mini Baa Baa or the color block blanket from Make and Do Crew. Both projects are worked in strips and sew together, with the baby version calling for two strands of DK or light worsted weight yarn held together and the larger one using bulky yarn. 

Add a little more texture with the mixed blocks of the cottage quilt throw from Mama in a Stitch. This one combines garter stitch and seed stitch and uses worsted weight yarn. She used a crochet join to make the chains on top of the blocks, but you can join them however you like. It calls for eight colors but you can use what you have, and there are three size options. 

Get a real sampler style patchwork blanket with this design from Knit Sew Make. It calls for worsted weight yarn and has four size options. All of the patterns just use knit and purl stitches so this one is still pretty easy for beginners. 

If you want a more complex colorwork project that will keep you entertained all season, try the Peace by Piece blanket pattern from Needle and Feather. This one is made up of two color colorwork blocks and calls for worsted weight yarn. You can choose to use just a few of the blocks and repeat them more often, or make multiples of the whole set. 

The knitted patchwork recipe from Martine Ellis (free on Ravelry) uses mitered squares in fingering weight yarn, so it’s perfect for using up all your leftover sock yarn and mini skeins. This one is a tutorial more than a pattern so you can make your blanket as big as you like or keep going until you run out of yarn. 

Susan B. Anderson’s 100 Squares blanket (find it on Ravelry) has a lot of mitered squares, too, but they’re arranged in fun ways and includes some quilt inspired designs as well. This one also is a bit of method more than pattern but it sure looks like a lot of fun for using all the leftovers. 

Of course you can totally improvise a patchwork blanket using the yarn and stitches you like, but I hope these patterns inspire you to look at your leftover yarn in a new way.