Otherwise, feel free to click through the gallery below for a specific grid. Some of the pictures came out higher quality than others…honestly I don’t know why. You’ll notice that there’s one extra square than what I put in my blanket; I drew up a pattern for Metal Gear even though I didn’t end up using it, so I figured I’d post it.
I used US size 8 needles and added an extra row all around each square since I lose a stitch when I sew the pieces together using the mattress stitch. I estimate each square used 80 m of yarn for each of the two colors.
As always, I would love to see what you make if you make something using these patterns! Leave a comment, send me an email at createmarvelous@gmail.com, or reach out to @createmarvelous on Instagram with your photos!
The newest blanket is done! This one is based off of the series symbols from Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers. I went off of the ones from Smash Ultimate, picking 30 out of the 37 in the game (so the DLCs, Castlevania, and Metal Gear didn’t make the cut, with Castlevania being too complicated and Metal Gear being too simple). Each square is about 10″ (25 cm) wide and 9.5″ (24cm) tall, making the whole blanket 50″ (127) wide and 57″ (69 cm) tall. Double knitting resulted in the opposite side looking like this, which is just as fun and colorful as the front:
There wasn’t anything new about how I made this blanket compared to past ones. The style was exactly the same as the Star Wars blanket and Avatar blanket (double knit, mattress stitch assembly), just with more pieces and colors. When I was designing the squares, I wasn’t sure I wanted to use quite so many colors, so I played around with what it would look like if everything were one bright color on a black background, but that completely changed the feel of the blanket and made it less playful:
So I’m glad I picked the crazy bright colors, even though they aren’t cohesive at all. It makes the blanket look like a big coloring page!
I think the only somewhat interesting thing I learned from this was that during assembly, I developed a strategy for how to sew the pieces together. I ended up with my yarn tails at the lower right and top left of my pieces. So sewing the right side of the piece to the adjacent piece using the lower right tail and then sewing the top of the piece to the adjacent piece using the top left tail was better than doing it in any other order. Just something I found as I went along.
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