Modern Art Baby Blanket

Two-tone grey striped baby blanket worked in garter stitch with random pops of colours along the two sides.

#17 Modern Art designed by Holli Yeoh from 60 Quick Baby Blankets, published by Sixth&Spring Books. Photos by Jack Deutsch copyright © 2013 by Sixth&Spring Books/Cascade Yarns. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Stripes—they are so simple and they look terrific. What an easy way to introduce colour and visual interest to a project.

View of the edges of a folded up garter stitch blanket with stripes.

60 Quick Baby Blankets was published in April and contains two of my designs. Modern Art is project #17 and calls for four colours of Cascade 220 Superwash.

Detail shot of a two-tone grey, garter stitch blanket with rust and peach squares.

The charcoal grey stocking stitch stripes alternate with light grey garter stitch ones. Every now and then along the edges there’s a hit of colour to mix things up. This could be a stash buster project—imagine working the main stripes in different colours while keeping the accents consistently the same, conversely keep the light/dark stripes and use oddments for the accent blocks of colours.

Two colourway options for the Modern Art baby blanket; both in black and white; one with pink and orange and the other with green and turquoise.