Sudoku Blanket

I used 6 colours of Wendy Aurora - about 1 skein of each plus some Drops Big Merino I had in my stash which ai had used after frogging a sweater which was far too big!

I wanted to make the blanket big enough for a double bed so between the blocks of 3 mitred squares I added black garter stitch strips of increasing depth as well as a deep centre panel and sides.

In order not to repeat any one colour per line - either horizontal or vertical, I used a completed mini-sudoku from The Guardian Puzzle App to plan my colours. There is a total of 36 squares divided into 12 panels of 3 squares each.

Each square begins with a total of 71 stitches and after the cast on row plus one further row, I did a double centre decrease (slip 2 sts, k1 and pass slipped sts over the knit st) on every right side row. I also slipped the last stitch of every row with yarn forward - this gave a lovely edge into which to pick up and knit sts for the next square or the garter panels.