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Please help: sewing up a blanket of knitted squares.

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goodjambadjar · 13/09/2013 17:46

Hi. I'm making a baby blanket for my friends imminent baby. I've knitted all the squares on the diagonal.

I have 4 8inch squares for the corners, and the rest are 4inch squares in different colours. I know the pattern I want to sew them up as, but think I might have scuppered myself making different sizes. Blush

Any tips please? Should I sew all the little ones first, then the corners? Or sew in lines?

TIA.

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ZingWantsCake · 13/09/2013 18:17

I would do this:

I assume you have 48 small squares - symbolised by .

4 big squares - symbolised by m

step1
start sewing the little squares together in pairs. all of them

so you'l get loads of : : : : : :

step2
sew one pair (which is now a rectangle) to one of the corner squares

m :

step 3
sew 4 more pairs , then another corner square to have a strip

m : : : : m

repeat step3 to make an identical corner squares strip

step4

sew the remaining pairs into strips like this

: : : : : : : :

step5

assemble the blanket like this

m : : : : m
: : : : : : : :
: : : : : : : :
m : : : : m

obviously your's will have good starigth edges - I can do it well on pc like this!

hth

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ZingWantsCake · 13/09/2013 18:18

sorry, step
3
is saw 3 more rectangles (of 2 squares), not 4

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goodjambadjar · 13/09/2013 18:24

Ooh, that makes sense Zing, and the way the pattern is planned, it would work quite well. Hmm, I shall bear that in mind, thank you.

I'm knitting the last square now, so thinking about the sewing up.

Excited and nervous about the finished article, the baby is due any day, so I'm hoping I'm on time. (even though the baby isn't!) Grin

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ZingWantsCake · 13/09/2013 18:33

lovely project!

do link a photo here if you can!

how many little squares do you have?

obviously if the number is something like 65 you might have to add a "thin" row of ones in between the strips like this:

: : : : : : : : : : :
. . . . . . . . . . . .
: : : : : : : : : : :

are you going to arrange them first to see how blanket would look like?
I'd do that on a separate table or somewhere and only pick out the bits I'm sewing up - the put the sewn up piece back where it belongs so you don't mix things up.
easier then pinning them!

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goodjambadjar · 13/09/2013 18:54

Thanks.

There are the 4 big squares, then 14 little ones, in dark pink and a sort of oyster pink/cream. I'd planned the pattern as

m:m
: ::: :
m:m

with dark pink corners, cream squares on the borders and as the two central squares. The top and bottom little squares between the big ones are alternate stacked, then same stack for the middle "stripe".

I'll put it on my ravelry page when I'm done.

Thanks for your help Zing!

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goodjambadjar · 13/09/2013 18:55

(how do I do a photo link?) Blush

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ZingWantsCake · 13/09/2013 22:40

I can imagine it will look lovely! I don't knit, but I do patchwork, so understand patterns and stuff!

photo links - I'm rubbish at that, sorry!

good luck, I'm sure they will love it! Smile

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AboutTimeForAChange · 21/09/2013 10:50

Put the picture on your profile?

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goodjambadjar · 21/09/2013 11:10

Once I've finished I'll put it up. My toddler had been up since 5:30 so am a bit too knackered to focus on sewing! I've done the squares into rectangles, I just need to sew them all into their horizontal strips, then turn the strips into a blanket!

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ZingWantsCake · 21/09/2013 14:11

how exciting!

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goodjambadjar · 06/10/2013 17:28

It's done! Thanks for the help Zing, when I get on the lap top I'll put the pics up.

I can't say it's the best thing I've ever done! It's quite messy, but I've already told my friend that it had been handmade with love. Not necessarily handmade with skill, but definitely made with love. Grin

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