When my eldest niece was born, I wasn’t knitting yet. So she never got a blanket from me as a little one like most of the other kiddos did. When she graduated from High School and her AS degree at the same time, I wanted to knit her something special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This blanket is a color-blocked brioche blanket, with a solid gray color on one side and 4 speckled colors in a jewel-toned theme of green, blue, purple, and pink on the other. I did not use a pattern, just cast on what looked like the appropriate number of stitches and started doing 2 color brioche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Began on with a 2 color italian cast on – the Brioche Stitch site has diagrams of the process<\/a>. Finished with a corresponding sewn bind off, I think this from Sunday Knits<\/a> were the pictures that helped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my eldest niece was born, I wasn’t knitting yet. So she never got a blanket from me as a little one like most of the other kiddos did. When she graduated from High School and her AS degree at the same time, I wanted to knit her something special. This blanket is a color-blocked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[15,108,13,402,16,17],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finished","category-knitting","tag-15","tag-blanket","tag-gift","tag-stashdash2021","tag-zk2021","tag-zk2021teamplanes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AB4C23DA-D2C8-49DB-9858-05A6A529862E-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}