Sams Blanket

Friends' nephews "lovey" had fallen apart..disaster! I was sent a sample in the post, but  there wasn't a pattern I could find anywhere so I had to try and recreate it somehow, all the basket weave blankets I'd seen where odd number stitch patterns repeated and/or the back of the same as the front, this one was even number repeats (inside borderer) and the back was plainish knit (different to the back)

3.75mm needles
100g pattons fab dk yarn (I used a whole ball leaving about 10 yards!)

This blanket once pressed or killed (steamed) is approximately 50 x 70 approx, of course,e you do not have to press it, this was just how it was in the sample I was sent, unpressed its about 43 x 57cm.
If you want to make it bigger just add an extra 8 stitches and knit to the required length.

Cast on 86 stitches.
Knit in garter stitch for 6 rows.
Then...
Row 1, K7 *p4,k4* to last 7 stitches k7
Row 2, knit
Repeat rows 1-2  Two more times (6 rows in total)
Row 3, K7,K4,P4* to end K7
Row 4, Knit
Repeat rows  Two more times (6 rows in total)
Continue with repeating rows as a set pattern to approximately 1.5 inches below the desired length, finishing on the Rows 1-2 repeats.
Garter stitch 6 rows and cast off in garter stitch. Pres.

@Copyright Laura Avery 2012. I give permission for you to sell from this pattern but please do not pass it off as your own, many thanks!