A beloved blanket accomplishes a few things: it looks good, it feels good, and most of all, it means something to you. Hand knitting a blanket is a surefire way to imbue it with meaning, and our Slipped Garter Blanket sure looks and feels good, too!

Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho

This wonderfully tactile stitch pattern is dense and durable, beautiful, and easy, too! Eshewing purl stitches altogether, you’ll just be knitting and slipping… No problem!

Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho

We used our Cotton Pure On A Cone for an all-season classic blanket with a satisfying heft. It’s also organically grown and machine washable, too! We used petal-soft Peach Peony, but whatever pretty color you pick, the love is in the knitting!

Yarn lovers, if you adore the yarn used in this project, you’ll love exploring all of our other yarn collections! Discover over 45 thoughtfully designed yarns in nearly every natural fiber and in every spectacular color you can imagine. Only available here at Purl Soho’s online yarn store, where every skein is created with care and your creativity in mind!

Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho

Designed by Purl Soho designer, Jake Canton. Click here to see even more of Jake’s designs!

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Materials

Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho

To make one Throw size or two Crib size blankets, you’ll need…

  • 1 Cotton Pure On A Cone, 100% organically grown cotton yarn. Each cone of this sport weight yarn is approximately 2789 yards/ 1000 grams; approximately 1,395 (2,700) yards required. We used the color Peach Peony.
  • US 4 (3.5 mm), 32- or 40-inch circular needles

PLEASE NOTE: If you want to make one Crib Blanket, you’ll need just 5 skeins of Purl Soho’s Cotton Pure. Or if you want to make the Throw but prefer skeins, you’ll need 10!

Gauge

28 stitches and 53 rows = 4 inches in stitch pattern

Size

Crib (Throw)

Finished Dimensions: 28 inches wide x 37 inches long (41 inches wide x 51 inches long)

Sample: The blanket shown here is the Throw size.

Notes

Stitch Multiple

This stitch pattern works over an odd number of stitches.

Slip Stitches

Slip all stitches purlwise.

Pattern

Using a basic Long Tail Cast On, cast on 197 (287) stitches.

Set-Up Row 1 (wrong side): Knit to end of row.

Row 1 (right side): *K1, slip 1 (see Notes) with yarn in back (wyib), repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Row 2 (wrong side): *K1, slip 1 with yarn in front (wyif), repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Rows 3 and 4: Knit to end of row.

Row 5: K2, *slip 1 wyib, k1, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Row 6: K2, *slip 1 wyif, k1, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Rows 7 and 8: Knit to end of row.

Repeat Rows 1-8 until piece measures approximately 37 (51) inches from cast-on edge, ending with Row 8.

With right side facing you, bind off knitwise.

Wash on a cold, gentle cycle and air dry to block.

Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho
Slipped Garter Blanket | Purl Soho

Learn About Cotton Pure On A Cone + All Our Beautiful Yarns

Cotton Pure On A Cone is the ultimate yarn for amazing cotton blankets and garments! 2,789 whopping yards of 100% organically grown cotton yarn, you’ll have only two ends to weave in when you’re done… Music to every knitter’s ears! Cotton Pure is also a true natural beauty. This sport-weight yarn feels wonderfully soft and supple and comes in tons of gently heathered colors you won’t find anywhere else! Need some contrast colors or not quite so much yarn? Shop our collection of Cotton Pure 100-gram skeins, too!

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