This is the nerdiest blanket you are ever likely to come across.

Fact.

If you love maths, or have someone in your life who proudly identifies as a maths geek, this is definitely the pattern for you!

This thick and squishy, bouncy, heavy, garter-stitch blanket is super simple to make. Its modular structure makes it brilliant for portable knitting on the go, and it can also be the perfect stash buster, for using up any partial balls of DK yarn you might have leftover from other projects. Or you can choose, like I did, to curate a specific palette of colours with which to make your blanket, with anything from a minimum of six colours, (I used seven in mine), up to as many as you like.

The individual modules are joined together using crochet, and I also used a border of double crochet stitches (single crochet in US terminology), to edge the blanket with, giving a cleaner, tidier finish.

The overall effect is striking and beautiful. It is large enough to use on a standard double bed, or makes a fantastic Afghan to snuggle under, while watching the television on a chilly evening.

The mathsy part is that the unusual shape of the pieces is called the “hat monotile”, and is the first shape ever discovered that tiles the plane infinitely, whilst forcing an aperiodic tiling. To find out more about what that means, visit: this deliciously geeky article.

The shape was discovered—or rather—announced on the 20th March, 2023, and to celebrate the anniversary of the announcement that set the maths world alight, and to pay tribute to the unassuming little shape that caused such an uproar, I have designed this blanket, and I’m releasing it THIS day, exactly one year on from the big date!