Double Summer Garden by Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow

Double Summer Garden

Knitting
April 2014
Light Fingering ?
26 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
420 - 460 yards (384 - 421 m)
12” x 12”
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

This is a double-knit square, approximately 12” x 12”. It makes a nice large potholder or a good-sized afghan square. It is part of the Epic Lap Blanket Series. A peacock sits on an ornate garden wall. Are there really so many dragon flies, or does it just seem like it? Some of the motifs began as very old cross-stitch patterns from France and Germany.

The pattern is charted, and requires the ability to double-knit back and forth rows, do a closed selvedge, read a chart, cast on and bind off. No increasing or decreasing is required.

You will need two contrasting-color fingering weight yarns, approximately 220 yards of each. This pattern can be made in any weight yarn or any needle size, but the gauge will change, as will the fabric size.