This is an almost-square throw worked in intarsia. It includes two textured patterns, a twist (mock cable) stitch, and a “stranded stitch”. Some of the color areas are quite small & could be done in duplicate stitch. If you stay with intarsia, you will be managing approximately 40 threads across the middle of the blanket.

Due to the size of the design, the pattern has 8 pages of charts. Individual stitch patterns have both charted and written directions but there are no “row-by-row” directions.

The sample required 7 balls of background color, 3 of red, and one each of the yellow, blue, and green. A few yards of dark brown were used for the nose and to define the legs.

Optional: 26 stitch markers and 20 yarn bobbins