This is a great pattern for beginners who want to play with knit and purl. The blankets knitted in squares with a heart pattern on each square. You are knitting purl within the knit stitches. There are so many different shades you could choose to knit this blanket, or you can keep it very natural and only use three shades of the undyed Bluefaced Leicester DK in ecru, light brown and brown.
You can get quite addicted to this pattern, playing around with different yarns and shades to give to my friends and family to suit their personalities or interiors!

For the naturals blanket I used:

YARN & AMOUNTS FOR BFL DK 
One 100g hank each of Bluefaced Leicester DK – Undyed (100% Bluefaced Leicester wool, 225m/246yds per 100g) in shade A, shade B and shade C

TENSION/GAUGE FOR BFL DK
22 stitches and 34 rows to 10cm square over pattern using 4mm needles.

For the colours blanket I used:

YARN& AMOUNTS FOR RICO COTTON ARAN
One 50g ball each of Rico Creative Cotton Aran in 14 different shades.
Rico Creative Cotton Aran (100% cotton, 85m per 50g).
I used shade 10 Natural, shade 64 Candy Pink, shade 05 Red, shade 77 Fox, shade 74 Orange, shade 70 Mustard, shade 63 Light Yellow, shade 44 Light Pistachio, shade 41 Pistachio, shade 49 Green, shade 47 Teal, shade 36 Turquoise, shade 39 Royal and shade 11 Cardinal.

METRES/YARDAGE FOR RICO COTTON ARAN
Per ball for 14 shades: 85m/92yds.
Total Metres/Yardage: 1190m/1301yds.

TENSION/GAUGE FOR RICO COTTON ARAN
20 stitches and 26 rows to 10cm square over pattern using 4mm needles.

MEASUREMENTS FOR RICO COTTON ARAN
Each square measures 13.5cm x 13.5cm. The finished blanket is approximately 81cm x 94cm.

MEASUREMENTS FOR BFL DK
Each square measures 13.5cm x 13.5cm. The finished blanket is approximately 81cm x 94cm.

MY DESIGN IDEAS AND ADVICE
The cotton I used is called Creative Aran, however it isn’t a true aran and is in fact knitted on 4mm needles and has a thick double knit tension. This might seem confusing however it’s quite common with cotton yarns. (if you live near Skipton or want to visit for a holiday do pop into my Purl &Jane studio and ask me to explain more)
I could get quite addicted to this pattern, playing around with different yarns and shades to give to my friends and family to suit their personalities or interiors! I have also designed an Oddments Crochet Cushion which uses the small oddments of yarn that are left when you have finished knitting the Love Hearts Blanket. It’s a free pattern on my blog, click here to see it!

Click the following link for my How To videos that may help with this pattern.