My friends J & R got married this past Labor Day weekend. For their main present, I knit them a lap blanket following the Egeblad pattern on YarnOver.net.
Pattern: Egeblad
Yarn: Lion's Brand Cotton-Ease in Taupe (8 balls)
Needle: US10/6.0mm
Pattern is knitted in the round, starting at the center and spiraling outwards.
Modifications: I used worsted weight yarn and larger needles. I also changed the crochet bind-off to chain 5 instead of 8, since the loops were too long in my worsted weight yarn.
I needed to make the blanket larger than the original pattern. Other knitters on Ravelry had accomplished this by creating more "rays" (the look of which I didn't particularly care for) or by simply repeating the zig-zag section of the rays multiple times, and stretching everything out in the blocking. I couldn't do this since I was using cotton/acrylic yarn, so I modified the chart to increase the number of stitches. I didn't quite succeed in making the blanket lie flat, but I thought I'd share the chart in case it could help someone else.
If you have problems with the download or questions about the chart, please drop a comment.
