Terra Blanket: A Modern Buffalo Plaid Knitted Blanket

Keep things bright and simple in your home with this modern buffalo plaid knitted blanket. It’s got just enough color to add an accent to a room without feeling too busy. Unlike a quilt, the Terra Blanket is knit up in rows, not pieced together as blocks, which means there’s no seams!

Every time I got to a home decorations store, whether it’s HomeGoods or WestElm or Pottery Barn, I look at their blankets and think “I can make those!”, but I never do. For some reason, I always feel I need to add some level of complexity to my own projects. But why, really? Why can’t we get back to basics and use our skills to make something that shines because of its simplicity?

它保持两个颜色和两种编织针是兵马俑毛毯。这针织毯的特点是形成一个基本的水牛格子图案颜色的大块。它的工作了在针织种子针，使之成为一个真正伟大的项目上下工夫，同时让你的思想开小差。拆线的重复性往往就是为什么人们发现针织所以冥想和平静，和兵马俑毛毯在两个舒缓是针法和事实，即它的功能，甚至当你在它的工作一咧！

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Scroll to the bottom to get the free pattern for the buffalo plaid Terra Blanket.

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You can also grab a completeTerra Blanket Knit Kit from Lion Brand Yarnthat contains the yarn and a digital copy of the pattern.

Yarn and Needle Choices

A woven plaid is the mixture of 2 strands of color, one moving horizontally and one moving vertically. The Terra Blanket uses the same concept, knitting with 2 strands of yarn together and switching colors to create either the solid or marled effects. Knitting with 2 strands of yarn in seed stitch will make your blanket feel extra thick, so unless you’re looking for a chunky blanket, you’ll want to choose alight-worsted或DK重量纱线。

To create the buffalo plaid effect, it’s best to pick a single color and pair it with a neutral like cream or white. Use black and white yarn to produce a gray when mixed, or a red and white combination to get a pink color in the middle. I chose yellow as my accent color and love the twisted effect when mixed with a cream.

对于这个项目，我用Lion Brand Wool Ease, which is a 4-ply worsted weight yarn, but I find it to be lighter than other yarns in the same category.There’s a beautiful selection of colors available, many of which work well with its cream colorway.

The other choice you need to make for your project is the size of your knitting needle. Remember that you’re doubling up on your yarn, so you’ll need a thicker needle that what is recommended for that yarn. You’ll also want to pick a needle size that will give you blanket plenty of airiness and drape, since a seed stitch can often look and feel tighter than a regular stockinette stitch.

Lion Brand recommends 5mm needles for their Wool Ease yarn, but I increased to8mm circular needlesand knit with a loose tension so that the blanket has a beautiful drape and lightness.

Double Stranded Colorwork Construction

当与水牛格子毯子色块时，您可以选择单独工作，每平方米和接缝在一起。这是方毯奶奶如何钩编而成。或者你可以选择编织毯在一块，在切换颜色在必要时创建色块。兵马俑毯是由行编织行，所以有一些涉及colorwork。

大方格是科罗拉多州的3部分组成r across the short side of the blanket, and 4 sections of color along the long side of the blanket, for a total of 12 squares. One strand will be the horizontal color, and one strand will be the vertical color. Starting from one of the short sides, we see that a single horizontal color (H1) is paired with 3 different vertical colors (V1, V2, V3). When we finish the first quarter of the blanket, we’ll switch out the H1 horizontal color for the H2 color, but the vertical colors stay the same. So at any point, we are only changing one strand at a time.

It’s important to keep your colors separated and organized, especially since in the solid squares, your vertical and horizontal strands are the color. You’ll need to know which one to switch out in the middle of row for the next vertical color.

Changing Colors Mid-Row

For those unfamiliar with knitted colorwork, there is one rule you have to keep in mind. When you change colors, you have to cross your yarns so that there is no hole at the change point. That’s usually pretty simple to keep track of whenyou’re working a single strand of yarn and changing colors to another single strand of yarn。But what happens when you’re working with 2 strands of yarn and only need to switch out one of them?

First, always know which is your horizontal strands, and which are your vertical strands. I like to work with separate balls of yarn. Keep your 3 “V” balls next to each other but set your “H” ball a bit apart. At any stitch, you’re working with a combination of an H, plus a V. Every time you change color in a section, the horizontal skein stays the same, and you’re only changing the vertical skeins.

其次，始终解开你的颜色改变之前，H + V链。当你编织，那两股将不管在一起扭动你怎么努力，让他们解开，所以你需要解开它们，以防止丑陋的团块在你的毯子中间。这增加了一些额外的工作，但它成为重复和冥想的过程的一部分。

Once your 2 yarns are untwisted, pair up your H yarn with the NEW V yarn. Then, take the old V yarn, and wrap it around the new H + V pair. This gives that intentional cross in the yarns and interlocks them to prevent holes at the color change point. Now you can set your old V yarn aside, and continue knitting with your new H + V pair until the next change point.

我知道，这听起来乏味，经常针织colorwork即可。这针织毯水牛格子图案是不是2个小时的项目。这是你一点一点上工作的一个项目，当你的心是在晚会结束磨损或当你需要注意其他的东西，不能专注于计数针。随着时间的推移，纱线的变化变得熟悉，和不那么繁琐。另外，在最后的成品毯是绝对值得你投入的工作。这是迄今为止我最喜欢的毯子至今在其易用性和季节性。

Turning Rows

The next big yarn switcheroo comes at the end of every row. You’ve worked your way across 3 sections, and now you need to turn the blanket over and knit from the other side. When you turn, all your yarn strands cross over on themselves. Before you start your next row, make sure to uncross your balls of yarn and set them out straight to minimize any tangling.在返回的行，你应该能够拿起你离开前一行上的垂直绞纱线的权利。

This is also why it helps to keep your horizontal yarn ball separate from the 3 vertical yarn balls. You’ll need to uncross the 3 vertical balls of yarn, but the horizontal one sort of supercedes the others.

当您毛线球的跑出来，只需加入下一个球的小疙瘩继续工作。结将种子针中被隐藏，并且几乎不可见。

管理技巧Multiple Yarn Balls

与在单排4个纱线球（1个H + 3 V球）的工作是不容易的事。这里有一些方法可以让你的生活变得更容易，你需要把你的毯子下来，捡起来再次备份：

1. Store your project in an organizer like thisMollie Ollie Premium Diaper Caddy。The velcro dividers in the caddy are perfect for keeping your horizontal yarn separate from your vertical yarns. I put my 3 balls ofLion Brand Wool Easealong the zipper side of the caddy, and the one ball for my horizontal strand in a separate compartment behind it. When I turn rows, I can easily uncross the 3 balls of yarn in the front compartment. When I change colors, I always know which is my horizontal ball of yarn. Having the zipper pocket face me also helped me store my hook, scissors, pencil, and tapestry needle whenever I needed to walk away from the project.
   
2. If you don’t have a compartmentalized caddy, asimple basketcan also work. It’ll a little harder to keep track of your H yarn versus your V yarns, and even more important to keep your yarns tidy as you work.
3. 对于一般colorwork，你可以保持你的球on separate bobbins on a bobbin holder, or feed your yarn through the individual openings in theJimmy Beans Wool Oh Snap project bags。Both of these options organize the yarn linearly, which works great when the yarn balls can stay on the bobbins. However, it works less well for this particular project because the balls have to be picked up and untwisted, so keeping the balls loose will be easier.

Terra Blanket Pattern

Supplies

• 14 skeins ofLion Brand Wool Ease yarn(3oz/85g, 197yds/180m)
  • 8绞丝MC（白色），总码数的：1576yds /1441米
  • C1（黄色），总码数的6绞丝：1182个YDS /1081米
• Size 11/8mm 32” or longer circular knitting needles(Adjust as necessary to obtain correct gauge)
• 剪刀
• Tapestry needle

Gauge

12 sts and 19 rows in 4 inches of stockinette, unblocked

Finished Size

42” / 106.75cm wide x 56” / 142.25 cm long

Abbreviations

• ST（S） - 针（ES）
• K – knit
• P – purl

Pattern and Construction Notes

• 毯加工来回行，每行结束转弯。
• You will have 3 VERTICAL skeins – V1, V2, V3, and 4 HORIZONTAL skeins – H1, H2, H3, H4.
• V1 and V3 are White (MC), V2 is Yellow (C1).
• H1 and H3 are White (MC), H2 and H4 are Yellow (C1).
• At all times during blanket construction, you will have 4 active balls of yarn.

Terra Blanket Pattern Instructions

Cast on 42 using the cable cast-on method, holding V1 + H1 together. Change to V2 + H1, cast on another 42 sts. Change to V3 + H1, cast on the last 42 sts. You should have a total of 126 sts cast on.

1ST SECTION

Row 1: Holding V3 + H1 together, work [k1, p1] 21 times. Change to V2 + H1, work [k1, p1] 21 times. Change to V1 + H1, work [k1, p1] 21 times. Turn at the end of each row.

Row 2: Holding V1 + H1 together, work [p1, k1] 21 times. Change to V2 + H1, work [p1, k1] 21 times. Change to V3 + H1, work [p1, k1] 21 times.

Continue working in seed stitch back and forth in rows for 66-68 rows, or until length measures approximately 14”/35.5cm.

Cut H1 at the end of the last row in the section, leaving an 8”/20cm tail for weaving in.

2ND SECTION

加入H2。按住H2 +垂直绞在一起，并继续在种子缝合模式工作，绞纱每42针改变垂直。

Work 66-68 rows or until the 2nd section measures approximately 14”/35.5cm.

削减H2在最后一行的结束部分,leaving an 8”/20cm tail for weaving in.

第三段

Join H3. Hold H3 + vertical skein together and continue working in seed stitch pattern, changing vertical skeins every 42 stitches.

Work 66-68 rows or until the 3rd section measures approximately 14”/35.5cm.

Cut H3 at the end of the last row in the section, leaving an 8”/20cm tail for weaving in.

4TH SECTION

Join H4. Hold H4 + vertical skein together and continue working in seed stitch pattern, changing vertical skeins every 42 stitches.

Work 66-68 rows or until the 4th section measures approximately 14”/35.5cm.

Bind off in seed stitch pattern, changing yarn color every 42 stitches.

Cut all yarn, leaving 8”/20cm tails for weaving in.

Weave in all ends.

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