NOTE: This pattern is for all gauges of flat bed knitting machines. Circular knitting machines are not addressed.

4 gauges are given for 45, 6, 7 stitches per inch in stockinette. These gauges allow the pattern to use yarns from #1-#4 weight using US terminology. In old terms that’s fingering to worsted. Blankets are really just big rectangles so the pattern is written in a very simple fill-in-the-blank form. The blanks are to be filled with values from a chart based on blanket size and gauge. Larger blankets must be knitted in multiple panels and information about number and size of panels to create various sizes is included. Wide doubled stockinette edging bands are recommended. Two ways of doing this are included in the pattern. It’s perfectly fine to get creative and use another kind of trim on your blanket, just relying on the pattern for sizing information.