2025’s epic knitalong is a huge blanket - or several smaller blankets.

It’s a modular knit, built up with squares and octogons, so you can choose the size of blanket you want.

The pattern will be released gradually over the year. Each release will have a couple of big octies, and a couple of smaller squares or triangles.

Each update will each have one easy, gentle octie - nice relaxing colourwork - and one more complicated octie. It’s up to you whether you knit one of each or stick just to the gentle or spicy side. There’ll also be a couple of square / half-square patterns in each update. These will all be nice gentle knitting.

There will also be a series of little mini-pattern that use the octies and squares.

The pattern update schedule is something like:

• Mid February: Octies 1 & 2.
• Start of April: Octies 3 & 4.
• Mid May: Octies 5 & 6.
• Start of July: Octies 7 & 8.
• Mid August: Octies 9 & 10.
• Start of October: Octies 11 & 12.
• November: Sewing up, border, finishing. (sorry about this last bit)

The pattern includes guidance for working with 4ply and DK yarns.

The blanket as written, with twelve octies, will measure 155 x 200cm using DK yarn and 120 x 155cm using 4ply - but there’s plenty of guidance for making a larger or smaller blanket.