My mom has been asking for a blanket with all her kids, grand and great-grand names on it. My sister wants to order one …I want to knit one! I’ve been knitting for a couple years and feel confident I can pull this off with a bit of guidance along the way. Would it work to graph this out? There will be 13 names (would be fun to have a few different letter styles maybe) and I’d like to make each of the names a different color than the body of the blanket (I’m actually not too terrible at adding a new color for a few stitches in various places of my work and then going back to the main color). I guess my question is: if I knit the body stockinette, would it work if I purled the stitches that would form the letters? I’m thinking I could graph the whole blanket so I have the names spaced out and then the letters within the name spaced out too. I’ve seen the alphabet patterns and I think that would just get confusing to me as I worked - finding my place and the spacing. Thoughts? Tips? I should add that I have never graphed a pattern before and when I find a pattern that’s graphed, I have to ‘translate’ it to row by row (P2 K27 P2 etc) and actually write out ‘row cards’ so I don’t get lost.