Polka dots met the log cabin, and this scalloped log cabin blanket was born. Combining stockinette polka dots with a garter-stitch log-cabin construction, the model uses the seven colors of the rainbow and rotates through them in both the polka dots and strips. For a less busy blanket, you could keep the polka dots all one color and still vary the log cabin strips. It’s endlessly variable.

You can follow the traditional intarsia method, or you might instead want to carry the main color behind the contrast color while working the polka dots. The model was worked this way. So doing minimizes the amount of yarn balls you have to manage, but it does create a more textured circle with less give than regular stockinette.

Because of the combination of garter and stockinette, the polka dot will rise from the background, a ripple will appear between dots that are oriented differently, and the strips will wave. As you work outward, the middle strips will straighten, leaving the wavy outer edges. To minimize the texturing, chose yarns with the same thickness and a gauge with some give.