We love receiving your questions and comments, and for this project, took special notice of your requests for a knit version of our Crochet Four Points Baby Blanket.
The conversion was as smooth as can be. Borrowing a neat trick from Joelle’s book, More Last Minute Knitted Gifts (specifically the smart no-sewing way she connects the triangles in her Entrelac Baby Blanket), our Knit Four Points Baby Blanket is even more straightforward than the original!
Still in Linen Quill, our soft, lightweight blend of fine highland wool, alpaca, and linen, we’ve added Wild Radish to the choice of palettes. It’s crisp and fresh, soothing and happy, just right for babies and adults.
Whether you’re a knitter, crocheter, or both, our Four Points Baby Blankets are a fun and interesting way to get off the x and y axis, plus they’re really satisfying and beautiful!– Kristy
Update: February 2018
We’ve updated the gauge for this pattern to suit our thick and squishy Super Soft Merino! It’s an ideal weight to bundle up baby for a bracing stroller ride or to plop her down for some play time on the floor… Not that those over the age of two are prohibited from cuddling up in this wonderfully cozy blanket! In nine intriguing color combinations, the Four Points Baby Blanket in Super Soft Merino is a fun math game and a very clever knit!
Update: October 2018
Our Four Points Baby Blanket has lived through several incarnations: the original crocheted version, then the original knit version, a knit Super Soft Merino adaptation (pictured above), and now another knit one in Linen Quill, this one dipping into our latest palette of rich and evocative colors. There are ten color stories to choose from, four oldies-but-goodies and six newcomers. All include just four skeins of our wonderfully interesting and beautiful Linen Quill and all will inspire a mood!
Materials
Our Four Points Baby Blanket in Linen Quill Bundle includes…
- 4 skeins of Purl Soho’s Linen Quill, 50% fine highland wool, 35% alpaca, and 15% linen. We used the palette Wild Radish, which includes one skein of each of the following…
- Color A: Pale Oats
- Color B: Lavender Opal
- Color C: Heirloom White
- Color D: Oatmeal Gray
You’ll also need…
- US 3, 32-inch circular knitting needles
Our Four Points Baby Blanket in Linen Quill Bundle is also available in these gorgeous palettes. Pick your favorite!
- Top Row: Hearth and Thistle
- Bottom Row: Desert Marigold and Speckled Feather
Gauge
26 stitches = 4 inches in garter stitch
Size
Finished Dimensions: Approximately 36 x 36 inches
Notes
For instructions and a video tutorial on how to pick up stitches along a vertical edge in garter stitch, please visit our Picking Up Stitches Tutorial.
Pattern
Triangle 1
With Color A, cast on 156 stitches.
Row 1 (wrong side): Knit.
Row 2 (right side): Knit to last 2 stitches, k2tog. [1 stitch decreased]
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until 1 stitch remains. Cut yarn and pull through remaining stitch.
Triangle 2
With the right side of Triangle 1 facing you and its cast-on edge oriented vertically, use Color B to pick up 156 stitches [see Notes, above] along the top edge of Triangle 1.
Row 1 (wrong side): Knit.
Row 2 (right side): Knit to last 2 stitches, k2tog. [1 stitch decreased]
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until 1 stitch remains. Cut yarn and pull through remaining stitch.
Triangle 3
With the right side of Triangle 2 facing you and its picked-up edge oriented vertically, use Color C to pick up 156 stitches along the top edge of Triangle 2.
Row 1 (wrong side): Knit
Row 2 (right side): Knit. to last 2 stitches, k2tog. [1 stitch decreased]
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until 1 stitch remains. Cut yarn and pull through remaining stitch.
Triangle 4
With the right side of Triangle 3 facing you and its picked-up edge oriented vertically, use Color D to pick up 156 stitches along the top edge of Triangle 3.
Row 1 (wrong side): Knit to last stitch, slip last stitch knitwise to right-hand needle, pick up 1 stitch from the adjacent cast-on edge of Triangle 1, pass slipped stitch over.
Row 2 (right side): Knit to last 2 stitches, k2tog. [1 stitch decreased.]
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until 1 stitch remains. Cut yarn and pull through remaining stitch.
Finish
Weave in ends and block as desired.
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I am ready to start triangle 4 and I am terrified! Do I pick up the stitches from right to left, starting at the center of the blanket where the 4 colors meet? That means I start to connect #1 and $ in the middle. Is this correct?
Hi Nancy,
Thanks for reaching out! Yes, you are correct that you will be joining the two triangles starting in the middle and working your way out. You can do it!! We’re here to help if you have any problems!
Best of luck and happy knitting!
Julianna
Hi, I’m also at the point of doing triangle 4, but can’t for the life of me figure out how to do it. I’ve knitted to the last stitch in a
Row 1, I’ve got my stitches on the left needle and empty right needle, but now don’t know what to do. Is there any other way you could explain it? Sorry, feeling very silly here. Thank you.
Hi Katya,
Hopefully I can clear this up for you! Just to back up a bit to make sure everything is where it should be, you should have begun Triangle 4 by picking up stitches along the top edge of the just completed Triangle 3, beginning at the center of the blanket and ending at the outside edge. When beginning Row 1 of Triangle 4, you will then be knitting from the outside back to the center, stopping when you have one stitch left, and slipping this last stitch knitwise. It sounds like you might have already turned your work, but before doing the next step you should still have the wrong side of the blanket facing you, with all of your stitches on your right hand needle and an empty left hand needle. Next, insert the tip of the right hand needle into the first cast on stitch of Triangle 1, just past the center point of the blanket, from the wrong side to the right side, wrap your yarn as if to knit and pull up the new stitch. Pass your slipped stitch over this new stitch and you are ready to turn and start Row 2!
Continue in this manner, moving up one stitch along the cast on on each wrong side row, until you have run out of stitches. I hope this makes more sense! If it is still giving you trouble, you can always complete the triangle without joining as you go and use mattress stitch to seam the blanket instead.
Best of luck!
Julianna
Can’t figure out how to pick up the sticker on the right side as I keep leaving a “wrong side” joining stitch.
Any suggestions?
Hi Mary-Alice,
Although you are picking up from the wrong side and it looks a bit odd at first, I found that after completing another row or two the odd stitches blended neatly into the garter stitch pattern. The seam between triangles 4 and 1 does not look completely identical to the seam between the other triangles, but after blocking the difference should be hardly noticeable!
Best,
Julianna
I have begun triangle 4, and just frogged the first five or so rows because my pick up stitches at end of odd rows was bunchy. I am having a hard time figuring out where to pick up. If I pick up the actual cast on stitch it is loose. (Did I cast on using the wrong stitch?) I attempted to pick up at the next row after cast on, and in places my seam was ok, in places it was very thick and then the bunchiness started.
Hi Kathy,
We used a Long Tail Cast On for this project, but any relatively stable cast on such as a Cable Cast On should work just fine. I tried a sample and picked up my stitches just above the cast on edge, and there is a bit of extra bulk in the seam, but it lays flat from the right side. If you are still having difficulties, please do send us a picture at customerservice@purlsoho.com so we can troubleshoot this!
Best,
Julianna
I think that a provisional cast on at the first triangle, which would liberate live stitches when the time comes to knit the 4th triangle, would be a good idea. I knitted the blanket and it came out beautiful but the last triangle was hard.
Thank you for the nice patterns!
Can I do with purl instead of knit?
Hi Raquel,
Thanks for writing in! Although most knitters prefer knitting, if you use a knitting style that makes purling easier or if you simply would rather purl than knit, you can certainly purl this entire pattern to obtain the same result!
Best,
Julianna
Would like to buy the pattern, yarn etc from you
Hello Karen,
Thank you for reaching out! This pattern is free and can be downloaded by doing with following;If you’re on a desktop version of the site, you will find a “print” icon in the right column just below the date and tags. If you’re on a mobile version of the site, you will find a “print” icon below the pattern and above the comments.
Follow the easy on-screen instructions to delete whichever parts of the pattern you don’t want to print or save. For example, you may decide to shorten the pattern by omitting certain images or the list of materials. To remove images, click the drop down next to the image icon and change from 100% to 0%
To purchase the yarn you can go this page for the bundle; https://www.purlsoho.com/four-points-baby-blanket-in-super-soft-merino-bundle.html
To purchase individual skeins of Super Soft Merino you can follow this link; https://www.purlsoho.com/super-soft-merino.html
Happy knitting!
-Marilla
If I want to use a super bulky yarn. I am thinking I need to do a gauge to see what would give me a 4” based on that then cast on based off of gauge for 36” then knit per pattern until one stitch remains… Do you think that would still yield the same amount of stitches of cast on vs. rows? So that when I pick up the edge, it would be the same as the first cast on? I feel I may be missing something..
Hello Rita,
Thank you for reaching out! Yes this should work out beautifully. We knit this blanket up in our Super Soft Merino at a much larger gauge, I would recommend checking it out for a little inspiration.
I hope this helps and let us know if you have any further questions!
Happy knitting,
Marilla
Will one skein of each color of the Linen Quill yarn definitely be enough for each color block? I just started this and am on my Color A and still have over 100 stitches on the needle and am worried that I will run out. My gauge isn’t super loose and I’m using the recommended needle size. Just wondering if I should adjust something?
Hello Candice,
Thank you for reaching out! As long as you have the correct gauge you will have plenty of yarn. Each triangle uses approximately 360 yards.
I hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Warmly,
Marilla
Hi. I am about to start triangle 2. Should I be picking up all my stitches along the edge first and then knitting the first row or am I picking up and knitting each stitch as I add it? Thanks!
Hi Alexis,
Thanks for reaching out! You should be picking up all the stitches with the working yarn before beginning the first row. You can see how in our Picking Up Stitches tutorial!
I hope that helps!
Julianna
I am having trouble with the 4th triangle. Following directions I move the last stitch to the right needle, pick up a stitch along the top edge of triangle 1, pass slipped stitch over and turn – BUT my yarn is on the wrong side. Have tried many times and can’t figure this out. Help!
Hi Allison,
Thanks for writing in! Since you are beginning a new row, you should be able to move your yarn to the back of the work around the right side edge of the piece after turning, just like you would when beginning a new row in a regular garter stitch. If that doesn’t solve the problem, please feel free to send us a picture of your work at customerservice@purlsoho.com so we can troubleshoot this for you!
Best,
Julianna
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to make a larger blanket so could I use a bulky yarn and a larger needle with the same 156 cast on?
Hi Missy,
Great question! The math will still work out regardless of what weight yarn you use, so yes, you could certainly change the yarn and needle size to make a bigger blanket! Bulky weight yarn is quite a step up from Linen Quill so your blanket would be significantly larger, though it’s hard to say how much larger due to the construction of the blanket, but it would be a very fun experiment!
Best of luck and happy knitting!
Julianna
I decided to wait to seam triangle 1 and 4 instead of connecting them as I knit. Do you have a tutorial for how to seam a vertical and horizontal garter stitch edge together? I only see seaming for when the garter stitch is going the same direction. Thanks!
Hi Alexis,
Thanks for reaching out! We do not have a tutorial for how to seam the two edges together. As you have seen, we do have a tutorial for how to seam garter together when it is going in the same direction (https://www.purlsoho.com/create/seaming-garter-stitch/). Seaming garter in alternating directions can be a bit tricky and my best advise would be to start out following the directions for seaming garter stitch and treat the purl bumps along the horizontal edge as you would the purl bumps on the vertical edge. I would also suggest starting at the middle and working out to the edge. Locking stitch markers would also be helpful to ensure that you don’t get any unintentional creep in the seam! This may take a little bit of trial and error to get right but once you get into the groove of it, you should be able to make a nice seam!
Best,
Cassy
How would I convert this for your Cotton Pure yarn and a size 5 needle?
Hi Molly,
Thanks for writing in! Although adjusting this pattern for different gauges can be tricky due to the unusual construction, I believe if you are getting a gauge of 5 stitches per inch with Cotton Pure, then casting on around 125 stitches for the first triangle and picking up 125 stitches to begin each of the rest of the triangles should result in a blanket close to the same size as the original!
Best of luck and happy knitting!
Julianna
I would like to clarify that for the 4 point baby blanket I use US 11 Needle and I cast on 60 stitches with the soft merino wool
connie w
Hello Connie,
Thank you for reaching out! You are exactly right – Size US11 and a cast on of 60 stitches with Super Soft Merino. You are good to go!
Happy knitting,
Marilla
What does “wrong side” mean in the context of knitting in the round? Should this be on circular needles or no? Thanks!
Hi Emily,
Thanks for writing in! Although we used circular needles to more comfortably accommodate the stitches, this pattern is not knitted in the round and you could use long straight needles if you preferred. Whether you are knitting in the round or flat, the right side refers to the public facing or “prettier” side of the knitted fabric, and the wrong side refers to the “less pretty” side. In the case of the Four Points Blanket, although the vast majority of the blanket is garter stitch which looks the same on both sides, the color changes will have a crisp, tidy appearance on the right side, and will look a bit more jumbled or blended together on the wrong side.
I hope that clears things up!
Julianna
I love the look of this blanket!! What do you think of this as a dishcloth- cast on 36 stitches, needle size 5 or 6 ??? Thanks
Hi Georgette,
Thanks for writing in! I think this is a fantastic idea – in fact, I have a coaster-sized version of our Four Points Baby Blanket that I whipped up to help answer another question, and I think it’s adorable! Due to the fact that the triangles are all knit on the bias, it’s hard to say exactly how many stitches to cast on, but with a bit of trial and error I’m sure you will be able to figure out a nice dishcloth size, and 36 stitches sounds like a good starting point.
Best of luck, and please let us know how your mini blankets turn out!
Julianna
What a nice blanket! I started to cast on 156 stitches, but it’s too large for me. Can I also cast on fewer stitches (and of course pick up that same number of stitches for triangel 2-3-4), follow the and still have a nice blanket that’s in proportion? Only a little bit smaller?
Hi Esther,
Thanks for reaching out! Yes, you can definitely size the Four Points Baby Blanket down by casting on fewer stitches, as long as you pick up the same number of stitches that you originally cast on to begin each triangle.
Best of luck and happy knitting!
Julianna