I’ve wanted to make this baby blanket for a long time, but never had a good excuse to spend the time and money. However, I just acquired a Brother KH-230 and a new grandnephew - so now I have reasons.

The 230 was in need of some work, which I took care of, and then decided I wanted to knit up a project on it. I’ve had this blanket on my list for many years. I picked up 12 colors of Sugar’n Cream in the 2.5oz skeins, and one 14oz skein in off white.

Tuck pattern:
IIIIIXIIIIIXIIIIIXIIIIIXIIIII (x4) T6
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (x2) T6, T8
IIxIIIIIXIIIIIXIIIIIXIIIIIXII (x4) T6

X needles are in hold, as the 230 does not have built-in tuck on the carrriage. I knitted the colors at T6, and the off white border at T6 for the first row and T8 for the second row. I found that T8 for the whole thing made the stitches too big, and more likely to pop off the needles, or not knit back, and T6 was too tight for the white tuck stitch to go around all 4 of the held stitches.

It is horrible knitting tuck with this stuff. So not stretchy and so springy. It wants to pop off the needles in the worst way. I have to move the full cast on comb right up to the new stitches every 6 rows (once per pattern) to keep the stitches knitting off. I also found that closing all of the latches on the needles in hold prior to knitting them back was necessary to prevent the latch from splitting the yarn.

Once I developed a set of techniques for dealing with the weight issue it went relatively quickly.

DONE!!, and I love it! There are mistakes. I had a bad latch that caused some unintended tucks. You can see that in one of the photos. In a couple of spots I missed pulling one of the pattern needles into hold and got an extra long block of color. I missed the olive green row on one of the repeats. One long side has about 20% more edging than the other. Once one side was done, I should’ve counted the number of repeats of the pattern used and blocked off that number for the opposite side so they’d be equal. Live and learn.

I used Diana Sullivan’s Knitted Scalloped Foldover Trim instructions to make the edging, and I absolutely love the way it turned out! In the cream colored heavy cotton, it has a very rustic look and feel that I’m so happy with.

In spite of how totally hideous the yarn is to machine knit, I would do this project again, because the results are so awesome.

After machine wash and dry it came out a little bit pilly, but not sure that can be avoided.

Total weight of the completed blanket: 1lb 3.6oz (560gm)