Butterfly Baby Blanket by Dawn Brocco

Butterfly Baby Blanket

Knitting
July 2007
Aran (8 wpi) ?
14 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 10½ - 6.5 mm
English
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About The Design:
The inspiration for this design was a photo of an Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly. I was captivated by the colors in the wings and just had to design a butterfly blanket.

The blanket could also easily be a wall hanging, as it is so graphic.

Like the other blankets in this series, it is knit with doubled strands of Cascade Yarns Eco+ Peruvian wool yarn, with a touch of doubled Cascade 220 for the duplicate stitched gold wing spots.

Note:
Yarn is used doubled throughout.

Finished Dimensions:
Width across upper wingtips: 51”
Length of butterfly body (center): 27”
Width across lower wingtips: 35”

Yarns:
Cascade Eco+: 1 hank each #8449 (med. blue), 5342 (deeper blue), 8010 (black), and 0050 (natural)

Cascade 220: small amount of #7827 (gold)

Substitute Yarn Weight: Heavy worsted used double, or super bulky

Happy Knitting!
Dawn