[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Knit throw

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Thanks Cindy.  I like your idea.  I’ll have to think about it.  It’s fun to think about how to put a throw together—what patterns to use where.

Tracy

 

 

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You could do either, but I was picturing made as one, so if you had five blocks on a row, you knit across row 1 on all of them. You could do the border at the same time or at the end. I typically knit it at the same time. So, I would have border, marker, block 1, marker, block 2, marker, block 3, marker, block 4, marker, block 5, marker, border. You could do five different blocks or make 1 3 5 in one pattern and 2 4 in another. Then, repeat for how long it will be.

If you want to stick with your stripes idea, maybe do the even stripes in the letters and then odd stripes in a cable pattern.

Cindy

On 6/15/2025 9:02 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:

Hi Cindy.

Are you thinking blocks sewn together, or just declaring each block will be X by Y and knitting the whole thing without sewing?

I have made a couple throws of picture blocks, using dishcloth patterns that fit a theme.  I like them a lot, and they were fun to make, but there are definite seams where I sewed them together.  Not a bad thing, but a design element.  

 

I was thinking more along the lines of wide stripes of different patterns, but I’m open to blocks instead.  How are you imagining it?

Tracy

 

 

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Depending on the size of the letters (guage), you could do them in a quilt block pattern and then use other patterns or a single pattern for the remaining blocks. Cables, basket weave, seed stitch, a dish cloth pattern, etc.

Cindy

On 6/14/2025 2:42 PM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:

A friend asked me for a knit throw to show off what blind people can do to an organization she works for part-time, the Paper Mill Playhouse (a theater that has some described performances).  She’d like it to have their initials, PMP, and whatever other pattern I fancy.

I found patterns for letters on good old Daisy and Storm, daisyandstorm.com, and the letters are 17 rows high.  I could put them in a couple times, and maybe figure out how to put braille letters with them.  I could put stripes or something else between the rows with the letters. 

 

I’m thinking what those stripes should be.  Does anyone have a throw pattern they like I could adapt?  Or have ideas?  Or even feel like this is a project they would really love to undertake?

Tracy

 

Tracy

 

 






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