Confetti Blanket

Our Confetti Blanket pattern celebrates the arrival of a new baby, and our new, wonderfully soft, hand-dyed yarn, Pepper, brings all the good cheer with its joyful, speckled colors!

To knit your Confetti Blanket, you’ll hold two strands of single-ply, light worsted/DK-weight Pepper, creating a super plush seed stitch fabric that flies off the needles. One strand of the main color goes all the way through, while switching the contrast colors partway makes more color fun.

This 100% superwash merino wool yarn has a luminous glow and a haloed softness that babies will love to cuddle and squeeze… And yes, “superwash” means it’s machine washable, too!

The superwash fleeces come from a carbon-neutral mill in Uruguay that puts their flock’s welfare and human safety first. Another wonderful mill in Peru spins these fleeces into a smooth single-ply yarn and then hand-dyes a sprinkle of lively colors onto the yarn’s warm white base.

Choose from four Confetti Blanket Bundles to get started, or dream up your own custom combination, then cast on for a burst of color and joy to welcome a new baby!

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Designed by Purl Soho designer, Gianna Mueller. See more of Gianna’s designs on her Instagram!

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Materials

Our Confetti Blanket Bundle includes all the yarn you’ll need to make your own Confetti Blanket…

• 9 skeins of Purl Soho’s Pepper, 100% superwash merino wool yarn. Each skein of this sport- to light worsted/dk-weight yarn is 218 yards/ 100 grams.
  • Main Color (MC): 4 skeins; approximately 870 total yards required. We used Berry Icy.
  • Contrast Color 1 (CC1): 3 skeins; approximately 575 total yards required. We used Purple Onion.
  • Contrast Color 2 (CC2): 2 skeins; approximately 295 total yards required. We used Spring Daffodil.

You will also need…

• US 11 (8 mm), 32-inch circular needles

Choose from 4 bundled palettes, shown above and directly below! They are…

TOP ROW

Harvest Moon: MC Heirloom White, CC1 Cloudy Sky + CC2 Eastern Bluebird

Carousel: MC Ferris Wheel, CC1 Comic Book + CC2 Heirloom White

BOTTOM ROW

Plum Tree: MC Lime Blossom, CC1 Purple Onion + CC2 Heirloom White

Prize Dahlias (we used this palette to knit our sample): MC Berry Icy, CC1 Purple Onion + CC2 Spring Daffodil

Or, pick up individual skeins of Purl Soho’s Pepper to create your own confetti-inspired color combination! You’ll need 4 skeins of the Main Color, 3 skeins of Contrast Color 1, and 2 skeins of Contrast Color 2.

GAUGE

14 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches in seed stitch, holding yarn double

SIZE

Finished Dimensions: 30 inches wide x 40 inches long

NOTES

SLIP STITCHES

Slip stitches purlwise with yarn in front.

STITCH MULTIPLE

This pattern works over an odd number of stitches.

PATTERN

Holding a strand of Main Color (MC) and Contrast Color 1 (CC1) together, cast on 105 stitches. We used a basic Long Tail Cast On.

Row 1 (right side): K2, *p1, k1, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Row 2 (wrong side): Slip 1 (see Notes) *k1, p1, repeat from * to last 2 stitches, k1, slip 1.

Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures 26 inches from cast-on edge, ending with Row 2.

Cut CC1 and join one strand of Contrast Color 2 (CC2).

With MC and CC2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures 40 inches from cast-on edge, ending with Row 2.

With right side facing you, bind off in stitch pattern.

FINISHING

Weave in ends and gently wet block.

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