If your interest has been piqued recently by knitting projects, have you discovered how to make a loop yarn blanket?
As one of the popular materials for knitting, loop yarns have become attractive for those who personally want to create a blanket for themselves or a special friend or family.
What Are Loop Yarns?
Loop yarns are made especially for people who are either just beginning to immerse in the knitting world, or those who want less knitting to do to make a single project.
Loop yarns are pre-sewn chunky and soft yarns for beginners. They already contain premade loops with already fixed spacings and tension.
These will lessen the need for you to tire your hands in doing these with knitting needles.
Steps On How To Make A Loop Yarn Blanket
Making a blanket using loop yarn can be done by hand.
Here are some steps you can follow to do this project.
Step #1. Buy the yarn of your color choice
A throw blanket measuring about 50 inches by 60 inches would require about seven skeins of the loop yarn.
Though most of these loop yarns on the market are technically soft, some types of loop yarn are more user friendly.
Step #2. Prep the loop yarn prior to knitting
Like some knitters, you can opt to wash and dry your yarn before you start knitting.
However, for loop yarns, you need to cover the skeins before subjecting them to cleaning procedures.
You can use pillowcases or other fabric to encase the yarn to avoid getting its threads loosened and undone.
Step #3. Allot loops for the dimension of the blanket
For a 50″ by 60″ blanket, it takes 70 loops of the yarn to fill the width of the blanket.
Position these loops on a flat surface plus two additional loops at the end of the yarn.
Mark the end of the loops you counted with a clip or pin and cut off the threads that are holding the loop up.
Step #4. Begin hand-knitting the loops into a blanket
With your initial 70 loops in place, this will serve as your first row.
To make the second row, place the rest of your yarn skein, from the marker, somewhere at the top of your first row.
Then, one by one, do a knit-stitch by pulling the succeeding loops inside the loop from the first row.
For example, pull the 71st loop through the 70th loop, the 72nd through the 69th loop, the 73rd loop through the 68th, and so on.
Pull the loops in from the bottom to top, all the way through one after the other so you don’t miss any loop.
Moving on to the third row, again move the rest of the yarn skein to the top of the previous row.
Notice how the second row follows a zigzag or winding direction.
This is the convention for the entire blanket, succeeding row goes in the opposite direction of the previous one.
For the third row, the 141st loop would go through the 140th, the 142nd goes in the 139th, the 143rd through the 138th loop and so on.
There would be no need for you to count the loops until you cover the length of your blanket if you keep following the winding direction.
Make sure that you do the knitting on a flat surface so it’s easy to keep track of the loops, from bottom to top and always pull the entire loop when knitting.
The fourth and the rest of the rows are done using the same process.
The number of rows you need to make depends on the size that you decided on, which for us is 60″.
Like the width, the number of loops from top to bottom to cover this dimension is larger than this.
To add a border, you can switch your stitch into a curl stitch which is similar to how you did the knit-stitch except from top to bottom.
If you want to add a different color of yarn, add two loops to the end of your last row, cut off their threads then cut the excess yarn.
Start the new color in the same manner, cut the threads of the first two loops then start knitting from the third loop.
It’s best to keep all your tails (loops with removed threads) are found on the same side of the blanket for locking.
To lock the final row, knit-stitch from the first loop of the final row towards the tail.
Insert the first loop, bottom to top, on the second, then the second to the third until you reach the tail.
Tie the last loop to the tail then thread the tail back to the row to make the end seamless.
Thread the tail back across at least four loops before cutting the excess yarn.
You can do the same to all your other loose ends and tails.
Conclusion
Now that we’ve finished sharing with you how to make a loop yarn blanket, you can now try doing it yourself.
You can start with smaller size crafts, then level up from there until you’re proficient enough to do it while doing something else.