Baby blanket with knotted stitch

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Its top is made up of blue and white squares. And the tedious stitch is replaced by knotted fixation, which is illustrated step by step.

All layers are connected by a dense thread, which is tied with a knot on the front side. On our blanket, these are the junction points of squares of size. 13 x 13 cm. The underside remains smooth (it is stitched from two panels of the same fabric). This technique of joining the upper side from shreds, the lower side and the non-woven between them is much less labor-intensive and is faster than the classic stitch.

The size of the blanket is approx. 197 x 197 cm
YOU WILL NEED
■ Different fabrics with a blue and white pattern for squares (the upper side of the blanket)
■ 5 m cotton fabric 110 cm wide for the underside and hem
■ 2 x 2 m volumenfliz
■ threads for sewing; embroidery threads or thin cotton thread for knitting blue
■ thin needle for embroidery or darning with a sharp tip
■ cutting bed, roller cutter and ruler
PREPARATION AND CUTTING FABRICS
Wash, dry and iron fabrics before cutting. Cut to the upper side 225 squares size. 15 x 15 cm (for all sections 1 cm allowances are already included), finished squares 13 x 13 cm.
On the fabric for the underside, cut off the edges. Cut 6.5 cm wide fringing strips from this fabric. Stitch these strips at the ends into one 8.5 m long stripe.Iron allowances, iron allowances along long cuts to a width of 1 cm, fold the strip inside out to the inside and iron halfway across.
Cut the remaining fabric for the underside of the blanket in the middle across, stitch along the long sides in a square. Iron allowances.
SEW UP TOP FROM SQUARE
Spread all the squares in 15 rows of 15 squares on a large surface. Shuffle the squares until you like the big picture. Stitch the squares first in rows face to face. Then stitch together the rows, make sure that the seams are joined. The allowances in the rows are ironed to the left, then to the right so that in places where 4 squares are joined, all the allowances are ironed in different directions. Along entire rows of ironing allowances iron everything in one direction.STITCH AND EDGING
Lay out the bottom side smoothly on a smooth surface first, on it is a non-woven fabric and on top is a canvas of squares. Sweep all layers together, starting at the center. After that, quilt the blanket, as shown at the beginning of the article.
Trim all slices to the size of the upper side of the squares. Along all edges, turn over the blanket with a strip of 8.5 m in length. You need to start from the middle of one of the sides, lay the strip on the upper side of the blanket and sew it to the edge without reaching 1 cm to the corner (Fig. 1).

Unscrew the strip 45º upwards (Fig. 2). Then wrap the strip down and stitch it at a right angle (Fig. 3) to the edge.
Thus process all 4 corners of the blanket. At the beginning and at the end, trim the strip, grind it, iron the allowances and grind the strip completely (Fig. 4).
Wrap a fringing strip on the lower side, not tightly pulling the edges of the blanket, sew manually from the inside, making corners diagonally (Fig. 5 and 6).

Photo: Ragnar Hartwig-from the book by Greta Gullixen-Moe and Ingrid Skansar "Scandinavian Blue: Norwegian-style decor", publisher KNAUR KREATIV, 2013
Material prepared by Elena Karpova

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