Delft Blue Tile by Jacoba Sieders

Delft Blue Tile

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Knitting
December 2013
Bulky (7 wpi) ?
15 stitches and 19 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 6 - 4.0 mm
250 - 300 yards (229 - 274 m)
one size
Dutch English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

This pretty Delft blue tile is sitting in my window sill in my old house in a historic town in Holland. It dates from the 19th century.

At once I imagined it would make a great knitwork design. It was a huge job to convert it into stitches, and I had to adapt the original quite a bit to get a good result.

I knitted it from chunky home spun yarn, and did a special trick to give it that painted Delft look. It makes a very nice pillow case, baby blanket, or if you make plenty of them, a tiled afghan.