Another ‘mindless TV knitting’ blanket, officially a stash buster, but….

I have a large amount of stash wool and I am trying to knit a rainbow of colours jumper for the winter. We both need good luck

I’ve knitted designer Stephen West’s Garter Squish blanket several times.

Free pattern on Ravelry but essentially:

10mm circular needle
Worsted weight held double

CO 126 sts
K123, sl3 wyif

Repeat until size you want.

BO loosely (K2tog tbl, slip st back to left ndl) rpt

I made most of mine in Stylecraft Special DK blending a solid colour with a neutal to give a marled effect.

This creates a very soft squishy blanket about 120 cm wide. You could play around with stitch count, needle size and yarn weight for different sizes and firmness.

Thank you, *OakDryad’ but I have such a mass of different colours to use up, I think I’ll stick to my random 2 colour rows, ends made into tassels.

I just made a small trial piece, so it looks as if 180 sts (all garter st) will make a 5 foot wide (just over 150 cm) blanket. Then 3 sections of 24” each.
Should be a lot quicker to make than the previous one!

Have you thought of doing the one where you start with say 3 stitches and increase at each end of alternate rows? Then decreasing when you reach the required size (or get fed up). I find it useful for using up really small oddments if I’m making a “rainbow” blanket. Also it seems to grow quickly!