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Every summer of my childhood, we would make the long, hot drive from central Virginia to the beaches of South Carolina. The trip had an oddly Mexican theme: South of the Border in North Carolina (my dad refused to stop at such a blatant “tourist trap” no matter how much we begged), a Mexican grocery store with all signs in Spanish in a small North Carolina town, and a tiny, forgotten village along one of Dad’s famous shortcuts called Cerro Gordo. We still visit the beach once a year, usually in the fall, and no longer take the routes that go by South of the Border or Cerro Gordo, but now we always stop at a travel plaza on the way that has a big stack of colorful Mexican blankets for sale. We’ve picked up several over the years; they’re inexpensive and useful and I’m always tempted by pretty color combinations to buy yet another.

Colorwork is charted only. A blanket-stitch tutorial is included in a separate pdf.

Skills required:
• Increasing
• Stranded colorwork
• Making and adding fringe

Yardage details:
• C1 (cream in sample), including fringe - 325 yards
• C2 (black in sample), including blanket stitch trim - 200 yards
• C3 (green in sample) - 230 yards
• C4 (grey in sample - 240 yards

Note: The sample was made with one skein each of C3 and C4. A 10% cushion has been added to the yardage given. You may be able to use one 220-yard skein if your gauge is spot-on.

Pattern chat thread is here.

Sample knit in Cascade 220 in Dune Heather, White, Black, and Charcoal.