Ethan's Sleeping Kings Blanket

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pictures of Ethan's Sleeping Kings blanket. The pattern is from Lucinda Guy's And so to Bed but I changed it a bit. She knits squares and sews them together, but I hate sewing! plus I didn't have enough yarn to make garter stitch squares, so I did it all in one piece and used pattern three "purl ridges" from vogue knitting's Stictionary, vol. 1. This served two purposes, it created blocks between the kings faces that took up the same number of rows, and look a bit like chain mail which I think works, and secondly, it justified my purchase of the Vogue knitting Stictionary! I used 12 skeins of Rowan RYC cashsoft dk in Ballad Blue, and I think I had to buy two more skeins in a different dye lot to make the border, which turned out fine. I invented the edge by increasing every row and then binding off half the stitches, repeat. This yarn is so soft and washable! It has really held up well so far too! It was my first crack at intarsa knitting, which was fun and easier than I thought it would be.