note:the yarn while knitting “shed” a lot, first washing left a lot of lint in the lint trap, and sleeping with the blanket leaves a lot of lint balls - so i’m not too happy about the yarns performance.

update - finished: after washing and drying it measures about 6ftx8ft if i were to knit this again i think i would co 201 st to make it a bit more proportional but the stretchiness allows it to easily stretch to 6.5ft

This will be very broadly banded, done all in the basic brioche st, using an odd number of stitches with a 3 st ‘liner st’ selvage on each edge. i have a total of 4050 yds brioche is very stretchy by the overall size should end up around 6ftx7ft.

i CO 181 st using the standard long-tail cast on over (2) 4.5 mm needles, beginning (and end) with a single color stripe of 3 skeins of ‘sailor’, then i’ll switch to a 2 color broad stripe of 6 skeins of each ‘clementine’ and ‘current’. for the center ‘stripe’ i’ll switch colors, moving the color from the ‘ws’ to the ‘rs’ and vice versa, knitting 12 skeins of each color. then i’ll switch the colors back using the last 6 skeins of each ‘clementine’ and ‘current’. i’ll end with the remaining 3 skeins of sailor.

selvage edge - i have Nancy Marchant’s book “Knitting Brioche” which is very helpful. i wanted a nice even finished looking edge so i opted to do an odd number of sts with 3 st liner stitch selvage, but i couldn’t figure out what the difference was between ‘sl1pwise wyib’ & ‘yf sl1yo’. i found this video which cleared it up for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLaQ9aN1MM
basically:
’sl1pwise wyib’ is a ‘wrap’ - yf, slip 1 st (in this case it’s the purl st), yb, then k the next st.
’yf sl1yo’ adds a yo - yf, slip 1 st, with yarn still in front k1 - yarn crosses over the slipped st instead of ‘wrapping“ around it, and is a classic component of the brioche st.

picts
top - finished folded
2nd - the blanket is huge and very stretchy: approx 6ftx8ft

3rd - center bands
4th - approx 550 yds - almost ½ way through the 1st 2-color band.
5th - edge - 3 st liner st selvage st