Quinn’s Quilt

I’m very excited to announce that I was asked to design a knitting pattern for the Jimmy Bean’s Wool 2022 Blanket Club! For those of you that are unfamiliar, the club consists of 12 months of yarn with a companion crochet or knit pattern. Yarns are shipped monthly January through December so you can look forward to receiving a little surprise each month.

The 2022 Blanket will be in worsted weight yarn and dyed by Urth Yarns in their Monokrom colorways - including some exclusive new colors. There will be two color palettes, one which is very vibrant and bright and the other more neutral / earthy. (Can you believe I didn’t pick the bright one for my sample?!!) There will be ten colors in total with one unifying color, which will be sent three times over the course of the year.

My enthusiasm for being asked to design something was soon overwhelmed by my horror of not having all the yarns in my hot little hands at the same time. Okay - that’s a little bit of a lie. JBW did send me the first three quarters of the yarn installments (January - September) all at once. What I realized would be a huge challenge for me was that each knitter would only be able to start with one color. Oh, FUDGE! Well this will be interesting!

I am now about a week into the project and both the Urth version and the beta version are well underway. I believe that the final piece is going to be amazing! I’m afraid that there will be very little knitting for people to do in January, however it might give people a chance to practice the techniques and become familiar with the skills that will be used over and over again throughout the pattern. Once a month has passed, I know that things will pick up quickly.

I’m not ready to divulge the entire idea yet, but I will say I am making it relatively seamless, masterfully using the colors provided. Each person’s version will end up being individual to them because of the tonal quality of Urth’s Monokrom yarn. I think the pattern will be easy enough for an adventurous beginner and also satisfying for a well seasoned knitter.

Techniques employed in this design include: M1L (Make One Left), M1R (Make One Right), K2Tog (Knit Two Together), SSK (Slip, Slip, Knit), YO (Yarn Over), SL1-kw (Slip One Knitwise), P1tbl (Purl One through the Back Loop), and K (Knit). There’s almost no purling in this design. It is primarily done in garter stitch. It uses Intarsia and Bobbins (actually you just wind your 100gr skeins into 50gr balls*).

I can’t wait to share the design with you later this year.

* I have developed a clever way for you to do this without a gram scale and will post videos in the coming months with visual tutorials.