Ravelry makes me lazy. I’m over here for anyone who’s curious.

So my current projects are herringbone socks (which look like a pretty good ayof using up the odds and ends of sock wool) and a blanket my mum and I are doing for my grandmother.

Since we don’t live together, we needed a pattern that could be put together easily enough and would be convenient to do on the go and we opted for a domino knit blanket. Step one: explaining what domino knitting was to my mum, how the squares go together and so on.

Domino knitting is pretty basic. You cast on X number of stitches, doing a double decrease (slip 1, k2tog, psso) in the middle of every other row. This pulls the knitting together in the middle, making a square witha spin running diagonally up the middle.

We’re doing garter stitch since it’s forgiving, marginally quicker and is nicely bouncy.

To save on sewing ends in, the diamonds are pretty big.

N= total number of stitches)

Odd rows: slip 1, knit across, purl the last stitch.
Even rows: slip1, knit to (n/2)-5, sl1-k2tog-psso, knit to -1, purl last stitch

We cast on 49 since it’s a nice, easy number to remember (7 squared!), which means
R1: sl1, k47,p1
R2: sl1, k22, sl1-k2tog-psso, k22, p1
R3: sl1, k45, p1
R4: sl1, k21, sl1-k2tog-psso, k21, p1
etc.

To join squares, the easiest way is to put two of them together like diamonds, pick up along the edge of one, and then up the edge of another, and start a new square.

Hopefully, difference in tension should be minimal (they were on the practise squares) and we’ll be able the bits we worked apart together without any problems.

Fingers crossed!