How to Make a Mitered-Square Afghan
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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How to design a knitted, seamless mitered square afghan, shawl, scarf, or baby blanket. Learn to make a simple garter-stitch mitered square and learn to join them together without seams to make any flat pattern in any size.
It's a 2 row repeat. Cast on an odd number of sts.
Row 1 (wrong side row): Knit, placing markers on either side of the central 3 sts.
Row 2: (RS) Knit to the first marker. Combine the center 3 sts into 1 st (you have a choice as to which dec to use.
Repeat rows 1 and 2 until one st remains. Fasten off.
Your personal copy of Afghan 101: howtoknitasweat...
The Lion Brand afghan pattern I used as a guide: www.lionbrand.c...
Cheryl designed and knit her sweater circa 1990 based on Elizabeth Zimmermann's percentage system.
I love this. I am having great fun just adding more and more squares in between other projects. I have no particular colour scheme, I am using wool as I finish things. Thanks Cheryl for these videos. I have been knitting for about 30 years now and I am still learning thanks to you.
Thank you. I made that sweater about 25 years ago using Elizabeth Zimmermann's percentage system from the bottom up. Three tubes (the body and 2 sleeves) that I then joined into a yoke. I made it up as I went along and enjoyed it so much that it's tunic length. I've camped in it, slept in it, played in it. It's still one of my all-time favorite comfort sweaters. It was cold the day I shot this and I felt a cold trying to come on. I stayed warm and healthy.
I had to put a marker on the right side. I like the socalled lazy cast on, it works for me. I just have to work on the smoothness of my finished project. It's going to take me forever but I'll have to pass on this join as you knit. Lots of very good tips though, thank you for sharing with us.💖
you are so Awesome!! subscribed!!! my best friends favorite saying when were challenging ourselves & our horses is "be brave". thank you for such in depth explanations. im making a mitered square blanket & out of all the directions ive read not 1 explained it in a way i could wrap my brain around!! except you of course. sending you a big hug!!!!
LOVE your tutorials. I'm an experienced knitter, yet you taught me a new way of casting on. Thank you.
+All About Yarn Thank you for this kind comment and you are so welcome.
Cheryl, your demos are precise and easy to understand not to mention your delightful personality.
Looking forward to watching all the demos.
Dolores
+Dolores Ungerleider Oh Delores. Thank you for this sweet comment. Have you joined my knitting newsletter group over at cherylbrunette.com yet? Please do. You get all the news that's fit to print.
You are so awesome. I so totally wish you had been my teacher because I would have stuck to knitting constantly instead of going from one hobby to the next trying to find one that made me as happy and personally fulfilled as when I gave my Mother the first thing I ever made, at age 7, a long raglan sleeve sweater. With the birth of our first grandchild.......
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You are an excellent teacher! Thank you for this tutorial, and j look forward to knitting with you again.
Also enjoy your sense of humor in the outtakes at the end.
I'm a new knitter and found this video so great! Thank you
Wow.... just bought a workshop dvd of domino knitting and yours is clearer (in my humble opinion) just wish I came accross it 2 weeks ago! LOL
Thanks for your time, love your videos
You published this on my birthday :)
Such a fun tutorial
When you started the discussion after the 100 stitch cast-on, I kept yelling "96" at my monitor until arrived at the same point. Just look at the factorials for 24, and realize that 96 is a multiple of it by one of those factorials. I felt so much better once you revealed that magic number. I'm not a mathematician.
Loved the out-takes at the end. Love the hairstyle.
Yay! These mitered squares had me so stumped. I only started knitting a few weeks ago, and I only learn from books and online videos. This video helped me make my first mitered square. Now I finally understand. I can't thank you enough! Honestly
LadySteph I feel so happy to hear this LadySteph. Thank you for commenting and I hope you will ome join my special knitting group at cherylbrunette.com. The goal is for you all to help shape my programming going forward.
Knitting with Cheryl Brunette Oh, I shall! And thank you for the reply
Hello Cheryl I absolutely love you're channel. I find it helpful when it comes to knitting. You have inspired me to try this project. Thank you.
I love the sweater you are wearing!
Your videos are always so helpful. I will need to exeriment with the center decreases. I also want to try s1, k2tog, pso for the center decrease. This has opened up new possibilities. Thanks
Thank you for this video :) Very clearly and detailed explanations. I am a novice knitter who is interested in learning and practicing new knitting techniques and feel the mitered square blanket may be a good choice for me. Your video will be my guide.
You are so welcome! I love this particular technique soooo much. It takes very few skills to make such impressive blankets. Good luck!
never have to sew a sing seam ya say...im sold!!
Thank you Carolyne and thank you for subscribing and watching. I hope you'll post a picture of your finished afghan somewhere where I can see it.
You are so welcome. I'm glad they are helping you..
Thank you MsNathalieJ . . . but of course I posted it only yesterday. :)
And you're most welcome.
thank you..you are such a good teacher..I just love the first method..
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Thank you so much for your youtube channel and the videos you are making! You explain everything so nicely :)
Yes. That's a third "look" for that central diagonal. Thanks for your kind words and you're welcome.
Thank you for posting this. So helpful and well explained!
You are so welcome!
You are welcome Nazli.
You"re welcome imatotalgeek1. This week I'm going to put up a video (by popular request) on the sequencing of how I assembled the one I'm working on . . . for more clarification. It really is simple. This is the first one I've ever done and I was
amazed at how easy it was.
Hi Cheryl, I loved this. It would help me to see more of the assembly after you cast on the additional stitches. Thanks!
You're welcome. This technique is much fun.
Hi Cheryl...I'm working on a 2.5" mitered blanket from sock yarn scraps. The pattern called for 16 sts. It never occurred to me about the possibilities - mainly because math is not my first language - LOL! Although, I do feel I'm being brave in the process because I don't care if the diagonal goes in the wrong direction or the decrease is an "inny" or "outie". And because I'm using DPNs, on the squares the requires you to cast on - I do that first and then just turn my needle around so that the yarn is ready to knit or p/u & knit the first stitch. Like I said...brave - or dumb - sometimes those terms are interchangeable with me! But I do have one rule...no yarn can be repeated. So far, it is about 18" square - so it's a process! Thanks for the videos - I'm glad I found you!
This is great sadiejosiemom. I'm going to start a new Ravelry group soon and it will be a place for people to post pictures of what they've done. I would love to see what you finish with.
Thank you for he great video can wait to start this enjoy knitting
i just got it i had to watch farther on. Thank you so much!
Great video! This is exactly what I needed to figure out how to do my pattern :)
Great! It's a very fun knit.
Awesome video! Thanks so much! I loved the end when you broke down the math for us:)
Bethany Porter You are so welcome Bethany. And thank you for watching and commenting.
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it. You are so entertaining and your knitting tips are pretty fantastic too. Instantaneous subscriber!
Marcia Cleare Thank you for watching and subscribing Marcia, and for your kind comment.
thank you for everything. youuuu my friend are the best inspiration to my knitting career. :) Cheers!
Mariana Hernandez Thank YOU Mariana for this very sweet comment. It's an honor to help! :)
Thank YOU, msfilmbuff06, for this kind comment. I'm grateful they help you.
I love this going to try it
I have had so much fun with this technique over the past 10 years or so. So easy to do but looks like it's complicated.
Maravillosa. simplemente.maravillosa .vi tu tutorial varias veces .hasta comprenderlo. y me quedo fantastico gracias Cheriy
Thank you for this kind comment and thank you for watching.
You can certainly knit this Continental style. No adjustments are necessary. I hadn't planned on a second video for this but I wonder if it would help if I showed the actual afghan itself and how I constructed it. It appears in several Episodes in this series. Do you just need to see more of it or do you need to see more technique?
You're welcome. ;)
I caught that. :) And it's one of my favorite aspects of this type of knitting.
Thanks Dreda, for requesting this. I've already had a similar request that I think is asking for the same information. I think what I'll do is make an Episode 9.5 in which I show the actual afghan (partial afghan) and trace the steps I took to build it, i.e. where I started. What was the second square and how did I attach it, the third, etc. Does this sound like what you're asking for?
The maths made my head 🤯 before then I was fine.
i understanding now. thanks
Thank you for watching and thank you for this kind comment.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment! Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheryl you should have been an architect not only you are so fas with numbers you are able o draw a strait line with free hand
Sure you can sew the pieces together with the extra tail, but I still prefer to pick them up as it's a lot less seaming work in the end. You might try "picking up in the ditch" instead of trying to find the "knots." I don't like this look as much but sometimes it's easier to see.
Thank you for watching and for being kind enough to comment.
OK . . . coming up, probably within the next week.
You are a Genius!!
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If you watch more of the video your question will be answered. You are on a right side row and you have 1 st between the markers because you just did the dec. Complete that row.
Next row is a wrong side. K to the first marker, remove it, slip the st you just knit onto the left needle. Place your marker. Slip it back. K 1, remove the marker, K1, place marker and finish knitting across the row. 6:10 to 6:30 shows it. By doing it this way I always know if I'm on a right or wrong side row.
I actually like the method of decreasing both sides of the center stitch marker. You do have to count rows but I have a better method. Since I use the long tail cast on, every decrease row has the cast on side with the twill, twisted edge. Every plain row is the purl side of the cast on. I just look at which cast on side is showing and work the corresponding row. It also helps me to save stitch markers because I knit and crochet in the air, not on my table or lap!
Andy Chen I have been known to launch a few stitch markers into the land of the lost. It depends on the yarn and overall design which look I like better but for the kids' afghan I loved this method. I hope you will come join my new knitting group at cherylbrunette.com. The goal is for you all to help shape my programming going forward.
I thought I had already answered this but I may have been fever-dreaming it (I got sick a month ago and was even in the hospital with some crazy virus that about fried my brain with heat). These are really old, probably from my mother's stash from the 60s or 50s even. I sometimes use little loops of yarn because they don't pop off.
Thank you for the easy to understand, easy going tutorial! PLUS the 9.5 construction video as I REALLY dislike assembling by tapestry needle and yarn. What a nice finished look. Does being brave mean creating a coordinating knitted border?
Thanks again.
+Oma D. It can mean that. :) This afghan is a dream in terms of being done when it's done. You're most welcome and thank you for watching and commenting. Please come to cherylbrunette.come and join my newsletter gaggle of knitters.
I need to see the jacket or understand how it was made before I can recommend an edging. Can you post a video of it here?
Can you take out the bind-off and knit the extra rows? That would be a quick fix.
Hi Terri. I don't know this pattern and without seeing the pieces in person and counting the rows, measuring, etc, I can not hazard a guess as to what you did. Do you have the right number of rows now that they're done? Did your gauge change? Can they be stretched a little? What happens when you line them up row for row next to the larger piece? Sometimes garter st, especially if it's worked loosely, stretches. Maybe the larger piece has stretched. Good luck diagnosing it.
It's all about working with multiples of 4 which is basic math if you're going to make squares like the diagram
.
I personally prefer to work with simply an odd number and do one double decrease in the center of every right row. I'm pretty sure, even if you use an even number, that you only need a multiple of 2.
Hi,thanks you teach me.Today I am really happy when I know you.Sorry,my Enghlish is not good
Your English is good, better than my ability to speak your language! Thank you.
Love it
Hi, I am currently working on EZ's Garter Stitch Blanket. I have finished The two small pieces and the first of the two larger pieces. I laid them out last night to have a look and I noticed that my smaller pieces are just a little too small. What have I done, how did that happen? I have been very careful to count the rows as I go yet they are about 6 rows too short.
ok so i am sitting in front of my computer following you and am lost. i am doing the knit three together and dont know what to do know. the markers are showing one stitch in between them. Am i doing something wrong? what do i do now do i move the markers or am i just lost please help me
Can you do a pearl wise slip stitch at the beginning of the rows to avoid having to look for that bump to pick up? Love the way you explain the math and show the knitted cast on. It is perfect.
I haven't tried that so I don't know what the join would look like. I might leave a larger gap, though I am loathe to predict how something will work until I actually try it. I'm very happy with the join I use because it's invisible and flat. I suggest you try it and see how you like it. And then let us know here.
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First, the reason I asked was because I made a faux pas in knitting. I started from the center of my pattern because that is the yarn (black & fuzzy 8 squares @ co 53 (k3tog)) I had on hand before actually studying the pattern to learn that I should have waited for my coordinating yarn to arrive in the mail to start from the bottom up and after the discovery I really wanted to learn join as I go. In any event, I guess there are no mistakes in crafting only learning experiences....lol! I tried the pearl wise slip stitch at the beginning of the rows last night & completed a square and joined in the back loop of the stitches made in the square and in the bumps like you showed, of one of the other pre-made black squares I made. It worked and no gaps since I am a snug to tight knitter and crocheter.
Great that it worked for you! And good problem-solving. That's what mastery is all about, you know.
Hi! Dear Chery. Thank you so much for interesting video. I have question: hi
Mrs. Brunette
I am having a hard time trying to pick up the stitches and find the "knots" to pick up in and continue the blanket. So I am making all the pieces separate and stitching them together. I am using the long tail cast-on so I don't have to add MORE yarn. Is this a good way of piecing the work together? Is there another way that is better? Any help is wonderful... Thank you again so much your videos are wonderful. Tracie
Thank you for watching!
How do we knit the squares together when it meets on two sides? I get starting it by picking up stitches but how do we knit it to two other squares?
Kristin, there are multiple ways to put together these squares and I can't picture what you mean from your question. If it turns out that there is no picking up technique that will work, you can always seam some of the edges together.
The easy way to remember the decrease row is that the tail of cast on row will be on the left side?
Lori HoweI'd have to work it through to give you a definitive answer and don't have the time right now to do that but I think you may have identified a pattern that works for the first block at least.
That you so much
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i would really like to see the third one knitted in where you have to pick up on both sides.
thenk yuo very muche
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excellent video but can I join the squares using kitchener stitch?
Absolutely. I'm just lazier than that. :D
@@CherylBrunetteTV I find kitchener easier. Thank you for the reply
How to make a smooth edge of my jacket after knitting?
LOL I love it! That was great, Thank you!
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HELP Cheryl! I am being "brave" as you put it but have probs, I have done the mitred square every 2 rows I switched colours so when I pick up to make the second square above it as in your video I don't have these little knots I have a loose stitch. So I managed to pick them up semi-decently. I then did a "decrease" row. Second row knit all along then I switched my colour did a decrease row then a knit row. To my horror the second square is now back to front. How do I get round this? Work an extra row ie K 1 Row, Decrease the second then knit another, just to begin with? I don't get how this has happened? Or I just do a decrease row then switch colour and continue with my 2 row pattern. Can you help?
I'm guessing that you held the first piece with the wrong side facing and picked up the new sts. Your pick up row is the first right side row. Make sure you have the "right side" of the existing block facing you when you pick up new sts.
Can u help me read patterns and charts
Sarah . . . this is such a broad subject since there are sooooo many different kinds of patterns and so many different charts that I can't really begin to address it. Think in terms of learning to read ONE pattern that has a chart. Start with one. Once you have that figured out, do another.
About how many yards of yarn did you use in the blanket pattern?
+Kyle Margerum I used the pattern linked to in the description under the video as my guideline to buy yarn. I had some left over but not a lot. The Lion Brand afghan pattern I used: www.lionbrand.com/patterns/L10627.html
You remind me of Eva Marie Saint!
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Oh my goodness! The needles are tapered for a reason!
If you work the stitches on the tips you won't have to force-ram the needle in, and distort the stitches.
Yes. They are tapered for ease of entry, but it's important to push the stitches back to the full size of the needle once they are formed. I've watched too many beginning knitters make too tight stitches by ignoring that step and then it's very frustrating because the knitting is unpleasantly tight.
I'm afghan 😄
Can this be done with a stockinette stitch?
+Nauseated Kitty Stockinette sts are rectangles so you can't get a true square. Garter st is best.
+Knitting with Cheryl Brunette can you make it work with rectangles? I prefer the way the decrease looks on stockinette. Thank you.
+Nauseated Kitty You'll have to apply some math. It depends on the ratio between the height and width of your sts. It would be easier to play with different types of double decreases.
Hola guapa podia ser en Espanyol gracias
Hola Maria. Lo siento, pero es muy caro y UA-cam solo paga poco dinero.
Nope! Not a single or a singing seam. ;)
Finished first 96 square. Oof
:)