Rosie Posie Blankie

October 31, 2023

Rosie Posie Blankie

I thought a finished blanket deserved a blog post and so here we are... This blanket actually had it's origins back in the Spring when I looked out of my kitchen window and saw the blossoms and leaves appearing and making a lovely blend of colours. It was a combo I knew I wanted to use, although I had no idea what for.

I found some yarn to match the fresh looking mix of colours I saw and decided that the four colours would work well in my Rosie Posie Squares, a little granny square style design I came up with a million or so years ago. (Linked below) I made a few motifs up with no particular idea of what to do with them and I liked how they looked. I remember sitting outside in the warm spring sunshine working on these and enjoyed it so much I just kind of kept going, changing the order of the colours each time and working up square after square.

In the end I decided to work out all the possible colour combinations I could get with these four colours and set about making them all. I figured that if I worked two squares in each of the versions I would probably have enough for a small, baby sized blanket and that would be a nice kind of size to work on.

So it became a 'just because' blanket. Not one I needed, but a thing to make for the fun of making. IT's soothing working off these layers of rounds and then turning then into squares. As usual while making a blanket, I pondered the matter of the border. Every blanket needs some kind of border I think and as I work on my blankets I ponder on ideas of what might work for this particular one. Which style will suit it best? Wide or narrow? Lacy or plain? One colour or many?

For this one I decided something a bit more playful would be good so I decided to try out a pom pom style border. I've seen quite a few of these style borders and wanted to try it out somewhere so this seemed like a good opportunity. I knew it should be the boldest pink that I used though. Sometimes these things just seem to speak to you as you work on them and this one was saying 'bright pink' please! So that's what I did.

I've been chatting away about this blanket on my podcasts lately and after thinking it would be good to update the Rosie Posie photo tutorial to a video version, the general consensus seemed to be that adding one for the border would be appreciated too. So I've made a video for that too.

I made this blanket on a whim really and just from yarn I mostly already had in stash, so I haven't really kept track of all the details of yardage and amounts and so on. But I have got all the colour information and I did also weigh the blanket and so I can give you a rough idea of how much I used to make mine here. Hopefully that'll give you a starting point but obviously it really depends on what yarn you use and how big you want to go! I'll put all the details I have below anyway.