So if you are knitting an heirloom blanket as a labour of love, it’s worth using the best yarn you can afford. I love interchangeable circular needles, because you can change the cable length to suit your project. If your blanket won’t be practical to hand wash due to its size, make sure you machine wash your swatch too. Due to the holiday season, it may take up to 48 hours for (1) a post to be approved/ reviewed (2) response to modmail/from a moderator. Having said that it surprises me how many people prefer to use extra long knitting needles for this task because they really don't like the feel of the short tips of circular needles.

If you’re looking for quick knits, a chunky blanket or a throw blanket will fit the bill better than a king-sized blanket in fingering-weight yarn. Blanket patterns can generally be knit with any weight yarn, once you also adjust the needle size to suit. My first guide in my blanket knitting series is about the question I’ve asked the most: What Knitting Needles do I need For A Blanket?

If you have some circular needles and aren’t quite sure how long they are, I’ve got a helpful guide for how to measure your circular knitting needles. Next we are going to begin our chain, so using your thumb and pointer finger reach inside of your slip knot and grab the working yarn and pull it through the loop and that is 1 chain. These are just props and not the actual size but we have already started teaching our next generation knitters. This includes our needles, a cable needle (to be used in conjunction with our chunky knitting needles) and our unique winding wand (this helps to create chunky yarn balls to the right size). Otherwise, cast on 30 stitches approx and knit in the same stitch pattern as your blanket until you have roughly knit a square.

For my Making Plans blanket (in yellow above) I used US size 8 knitting needles Knitter’s Pride Nova Platina circular knitting needles . I have used them for knitting with t shirt yarn and they work great for this so I am sure any yarn would be good to use with them.Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Usually, going up 1mm in needle size works well to to knit a DK pattern with worsted weight or aran yarn instead.

Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Circular blankets are a fun twist on the classic knit blanket, but beware: knitting your blanket in a circular shape means that, eventually, you’ll have to bind off all those stitches. If you are knitting a simple plain or repeating pattern blanket, you could change the number of stitches.Using worsted yarn will just mean that you will end up with a blanket that’s a little heavier and larger than the original. Stitches also do not slip off bamboo needles as quickly as they do off metal needles, making working with them much easier! Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. TIP: if you want to make a blanket but are only just learning to knit, or haven’t even started knitting yet, crocheting a blanket could be a better option for you.