Tarot Card Blanket

A baby blanket made out of fingering weight cotton yarn depicting various tarot cards. Double knitting is used to make a panel with two knit sides facing out and a thicker and cozier fabric, and facilitate the long sections of one color that stranded knitting couldn’t easily accomplish. Simple crochet is utilized to create a uniform edge for seaming and a decorative edge around the entirety of the blanket.

First, you will work through a small sample panel to learn how to do all of the techniques to make each subsequent design. After finishing the practice panel there will be concise instructions for casting on and off and the pattern charts. Following completion of all desired charts, you will block individually, seam the panels together, and then apply a border.

The design was made for my sibling and their new baby. My sibling is one of the most creative and strongest people that I know and I wanted to give their family an heirloom and a positive force to carry with them through this new stage of life. The cards are all focused on hope, growth, positivity, stability, and other beautiful sentiments to wish for any person.

Pattern Details

Yarn Suggestion

Hobbii Rainbow 8/4: 100% Cotton, 50g (1.75oz) = 170m (186yds)

9 skeins Contrast Color (CC): colors of choice, one color per panel.
* If you would like to have more than one panel in the same color, each skein will make two panels.

6 skeins in Main Color (MC): a color that will contrast well against all of the colors you have chosen.

• This is usually a neutral color but can be any color as long as the contrast is good.
• Check the contrast by taking a picture of the yarns together and putting a black and white filter on. The color of the yarns should be high in contrast, one will be closer to white and one will be closer to black, and you can clearly tell them apart. This is to make sure that all your hard work is on full display!
• This will also be the color of your border.

Certainly you can use whatever yarn you like! Basically any yarn will work great for this blanket as long as you adjust your needle size to match and are happy with the gauge. I like cotton for baby blankets because it is easy to wash and care for and generally allergy friendly. If you use a thicker yarn the dimensions of the finished panel will increase. As long as you are at a gauge that you like, it will work!

Needles

US 2 (2.75mm) or size needed to obtain desired gauge

• You want the stitches to be snug together, but not so tight that it is hard to move them around your needles.
• You can use straight needles or circulars on a small cable that is comfortable to hold. We are not knitting in the round.

Notions

• Yarn for a lifeline if preferred
• Small crochet hook for seaming
• Needle for seaming

Finished Dimensions

Size is for each panel, this will vary by specific yarn type and gauge.
These are just estimates, size results will vary wildly.

Fingering 9”x11”
DK 11”x14”
Worsted 13”x16”

Pattern Chart Options
I have organized the charts into two separate files.

The “Standard” charts are tailored to those who want a usual chart reading experience for knitting flat. You will read right to left and then left to right back and forth across the chart. On even rows you will also be inverting the colors displayed in the chart as is done in a standard double knitting technique.

The “Mirrored” charts are what I used when learning to double knit and writing this pattern. There are two charts for each tarot card, one for each side of the card. This allows you to always be reading the chart from right to left, and the colors will align with what your card should look like. The first chart will be right side up and look correct. The second chart is a mirrored image with inverted colors, which is what the wrong side of your double knit card will appear as. You will read the first chart on odd rows, and the second chart for even rows.