Noro Mitered Blanket Knitting Pattern

Noro Mitered Blanket

What is Being Made

The Noro Mitered Blanket is a knitted throw blanket featuring a mitered square construction technique. This intermediate-level project produces a finished blanket measuring 39½ inches wide by 53½ inches long, making it an ideal size for a cozy throw or lap blanket. The blanket is worked seamlessly in a flat construction, meaning it is created as one continuous piece without requiring seaming.

Techniques Used

This blanket is constructed using several key knitting techniques that create its distinctive appearance and structure:

• Mitered Square Construction: The mitered technique involves strategic decreasing to create diagonal lines and geometric patterns, which is a hallmark of mitered blanket designs.
• Bottom-Up Construction: The blanket is worked from the bottom edge upward, allowing knitters to try on or adjust length as needed during the knitting process.
• Seamless, Flat Knitting: Unlike blankets that require assembly, this design is worked flat on circular needles without seams, creating a smooth, finished appearance.
• Stitch Marker Placement: Markers are used to track pattern repeats and mitered decreases throughout the project.
• Chart Reading: The pattern includes charts with "no stitch" spaces that indicate areas where stitches have been decreased, requiring knitters to skip over shaded spaces as they work.

Stitches Used

The Noro Mitered Blanket employs fundamental knitting stitches combined with strategic decreasing methods:

• Knit and Purl Stitches: Basic knit and purl stitches form the foundation of the blanket fabric.
• Yarn Over: This stitch creates new stitches and contributes to the openwork or textured elements of the design.
• Slip, Slip, Knit/Purl (SSK/SSP): These decrease stitches are essential to the mitered construction, where two stitches are slipped and then worked together to create the diagonal lines characteristic of mitered squares.
• Slip Stitch: Used to pass stitches from one needle to another without working them, often employed in edge finishing or pattern transitions.
• Pick Up and Knit/Purl: This technique allows knitters to create new stitches along finished edges, useful for adding borders or expanding the blanket.
• Selvage Stitch: Edge stitches are incorporated to facilitate seaming and create clean, finished edges.

Materials

The Noro Mitered Blanket is designed to showcase the beautiful colorwork of premium Noro yarns:

• Yarn: The project requires 14 skeins of Noro Silk Garden in colorway #470 (main color) and 4 skeins of Noro Silk Garden Solo in colorway #31 (contrast color). Each skein weighs 50 grams, providing a total of approximately 900 grams of Noro Silk Garden and 200 grams of Noro Silk Garden Solo.
• Needles: Two US 8/5mm circular needles are required—one measuring 24 inches long and one measuring 32 inches long—to accommodate the increasing stitch count as the blanket grows. The needle size should be verified to obtain the correct gauge.
• Notions: Stitch markers are essential for tracking pattern repeats and mitered decreases throughout the project.

Gauge

The recommended gauge for this project is 16.5 stitches and 22.5 rows over 4 inches when worked on US 8/5mm needles. Achieving the correct gauge is critical to ensure the finished blanket meets the specified dimensions of 39½ inches by 53½ inches.