A Sky Scarf Inspired Square-a-Day Blanket

I am planning to use this pattern to create a 2014 Sky Blanket, with one square knit each day based on the colours of the sky that afternoon. For my blanket, there will be 360 squares (20 rows of 18 squares each), followed by 5 rows of (probably garter stitch) edging). The mitered squares are joined as you go, because seaming makes me crazy, and seaming 360 squares makes me want to cry. You might want to check back on the pattern in January 2015 to see exactly how the edging went.

The pattern pics will be WIPs until I finish.

The actual knitting of every square is identical, but how you join onto the existing work is where the magic happens. You can vary just about everything about this blanket (number of squares, size of squares, etc), the only thing really important is to have an odd number of stitches in each square. You can have an even number, but you’ll need to change the way that the decreases work and you won’t have that nice stockinette ridge down the center.

Listen. I did not invent mitered squares. I was just frustrated when I went looking for a simple recipe that gave me the results I wanted and couldn’t find one.

Following the joining technique above will get you a blanket where:

• No seaming is required (just weaving in ends,which can be avoided using techniques known in the art)
• Every square faces the same way (stitches make an L, with the first square on the bottom left on the right side of the finished blanket)
• The purl bumps from picking up are all on the wrong side The sides are square, not jagged

If these considerations are not important to you, then it’s not important to follow the pattern directions.