Bitty Bulky Baby Blankets

The five baby blanket designs in this booklet have a lot in common:

each uses 4 skeins of Manos del Uruguay Franca, all are worked in garter stitch, and any will keep a little one cozy!

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The yarn is Manos del Uruguay Franca, a superbulky single-ply yarn made of 100% washable merino wool.

It makes a plush, squishy fabric that knits up quickly on big needles.

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To keep the focus on the beautiful hand-dyed colors, we chose to knit the blankets without seaming or using more than one color at a time.

Exciting structures are worked with simple techniques: although all of the blankets are square in shape, none is knit plain from cast-on to bind-off.

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Some are worked on the bias, others involve picking up stitches
in modular knitting, while one explores a mitered construction.

We wanted to create a collection that has you return time and time again to explore another construction in Franca.

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We hope you enjoy knitting a bitty bulky baby blanket (or two!)
in Manos del Uruguay Franca

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MATERIALS:
Manos del Uruguay FRANCA (100% superwash merino wool; approx 114yds / 150g)

1 skein each:
Kirby: Butterscotch, Post Box, Wellies, Starry Night
Joey: Camelot, Velvet, Miel, Mumbai
Rory: Violeta, Balloon, Duende, Esmeralda
Emory: Miel, Koi, Deep Sea, Midas
Emory, 2-color version: Azalea and Balloon / 2 skeins each
Toby: Tormenta, Menhir, Natural, Limon

GAUGE
10 sts and 20 rows = 4” / 10cm in Garter Stitch

NOTE
This is a booklet of 5 different baby blanket patterns. One of the blankets, Emory, comes in a 4-color and 2-color version, both of which are described in the booklet.