Tahki Yarns Bay View Blanket Knitting Pattern

Tahki Yarns Bay View Blanket

Project Overview

The Bay View Blanket is an easy-level knitted throw designed by Michelle Como, measuring 36 x 50 inches (90 x 125 centimeters). This downloadable knitting pattern creates a beautiful striped blanket using a classic chevron stitch technique, making it an ideal project for knitters seeking to combine beginner-friendly construction with visually striking results.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a rectangular blanket or throw blanket worked in a continuous striped design. The finished dimensions are 36 inches wide by 50 inches long, providing a generous size suitable for draping over furniture or use as a lap throw. The blanket features alternating color bands that create visual interest while maintaining the fundamental simplicity of the knitting technique.

Techniques Used

The Bay View Blanket is worked flat on circular needles, meaning you knit back and forth in rows rather than in the round. This straightforward approach eliminates the complexity of circular knitting while allowing the use of a longer needle to accommodate the width of the blanket. The pattern employs color stripes as the primary design element, with yarn colors changed at regular intervals to create distinct horizontal bands throughout the blanket.

Stitches and Stitch Pattern

The blanket is constructed entirely in the Chevron stitch pattern, a decorative textured stitch that creates a distinctive zigzag or wave-like appearance. The Chevron stitch pattern repeats over a multiple of 24 stitches plus 1, and is worked using the following key stitches:

• Knit (k) – the fundamental stitch
• Purl (p) – used on wrong-side rows
• Yarn over (yo) – creates decorative openings and increases
• Slip, slip, knit (ssk) – a left-leaning decrease
• Knit 2 together (k2tog) – a right-leaning decrease
• Centered double decrease (cdd) – a decrease that centers the remaining stitch

On right-side rows, knitters work the pattern sequence: K1, ssk, k9, yo, [k1, yo, k10, cdd, k10, yo] four times, k1, yo, k9, k2tog, k1. On wrong-side rows, all stitches are purled, including yarn overs through the back loop. The combination of decreases and yarn overs in the Chevron pattern creates the characteristic peaks and valleys of the stitch texture.

Materials and Gauge

The Bay View Blanket uses Tahki HATTERAS yarn, a 100% organic cotton fiber available in five colors for this project: natural (Color A, 3 hanks), straw (Color B, 1 hank), teal (Color C, 1 hank), charcoal (Color D, 1 hank), and persimmon (Color E, 1 hank). Each hank weighs 1.75 ounces (100 grams) and contains 109 yards (100 meters) of yarn. The organic cotton fiber provides breathability and a natural aesthetic suitable for a blanket project.

The pattern calls for one US size 10½ (9mm) circular needle measuring 32 inches (80 centimeters) long, or the size needed to achieve proper gauge. A yarn needle is required for weaving in ends during finishing. Optional stitch markers may be placed between each Chevron repeat to assist in tracking the pattern.

The required gauge is 13½ stitches and 14 rows equals 4 inches (10 centimeters) in the Chevron stitch pattern, blocked. Achieving proper gauge is essential for the blanket to reach its intended finished measurements.

Construction and Color Sequence

The blanket begins with casting on 121 stitches using Color A (natural). The construction follows a repeating sequence of stripe widths: 16 rows of Chevron stitch in Color A, followed by 32 rows in each accent color (B, C, D, and E in sequence), with 16-row sections of Color A separating each accent color stripe. This pattern creates balanced visual rhythm with the natural color serving as a consistent anchor between the straw, teal, charcoal, and persimmon accent bands. The blanket concludes with a final 16-row section in Color A before binding off.

Finishing