Experience Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate

The Zoe Blanket is a celebration of bold stripes and classic cables. Color choice makes a big impact on the finished look of this blanket. Make it soft, preppy, or modern depending on your palette. This is a great project for a new cable knitter as it uses a simple six-stitch cable.

Construction Details
The blanket is worked in three strips with four alternating pattern squares on each. The strips are seamed and then the edging is crocheted on at the end.

Techniques Necessary

• Cast on
• Binding off
• Increasing (m1l, m1r)
• Decreasing (ssk, k2tog)
• Working cables
• Working stripes
• Seaming
• Crocheting a border (an option for knitting is given, too)

Finished Measurements: 27” x 36”
Each square measures about 10”, and one can easily make larger or smaller blankets simply by increasing or decreasing the number of strips and squares they make.

Yarn: At least three colors of chunky weight yarn (CYCA #5) that will knit to the suggested gauge in the following yardage amounts:

Stripe Color 1: 180 yards
Stripe Color 2: 180 yards
Contrast Colors for cable squares: 65 yards per square - six total cabled squares - 390 yards total combined.
Edging Color: 60 yards

These blankets can also be made with sport weight (CYCA #2) yarn double stranded. Double the yardage would be needed.

Gauge: 16 stitches and 22 rows = 4” in stockinette stitch using size 9 (5.5 mm) needle.

Needle: US 9 (5.5 mm) needle. Adjust needles size as necessary to obtain correct gauge.

Additional Materials: cable needle, size I/9 (5.5 mm) crochet hook for edging, row counter, tapestry needle.

The Zoe Blanket replaced the Go-To Blanket pattern originally written by Adina0912 and myself in 2010 and is getting another update in 2019.