Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

Today's post is about how I made a grief blanket. The overall design is modular. I printed and cut out 1-inch squares with the design on them, then moved them around on a table. It was much like designing a quilt block, but using texture rather than color and value. The most common block has a two triangle pattern, with half the block in moss stitch and half the block in welts. The "joining" block is a double-moss stitch, essentially a 2×2 checkerboard. I could have played with other block patterns. Indeed, I generated multiple options. I ended up with three innovations on this project: a refinement of a Mondragon loop block join, a continuous chain selvedge, and an improved way to add a perpendicular border to a chain-stitch edging. The blocks are knit both vertically and horizontally. While normally I would have picked up blocks as for a modular project, the joins in this project are Mondragon loops. Because the welts are narrow str...