I would love to find a multicolor pattern in knitting for an Afghan . If anyone has any suggestions or ideals, please share with me, I would love it.
I have about seven different shades of green that my granddaughter loves, so I wanna make her a Afghan with the different colors.
Thank you so much.
Daisy Mae
Knitted Afghan multicolor pattern
What do you have in mind more specifically. There are many ways to use colors in knitting. Stranded colorwork, mosaic, intarsia, probably others. Of course there are stripes and blocks of various colors joined together. Do your greens contrast or are they closer in color. Maybe a photo of your yarns will help someone better than I am at finding pattern suggestions.
Wow, you are really setting us a challenge considering the work of art crochet afghan you posted a pic of recently! Can any available pattern live up to that standard of creative beauty?
I agree with GG, what kind of colour work did you have in mind?
What kind of patterns does your granddaughter prefer, geometric, wavy, hearts, patchwork, stripes�
This pattern is rather nice but looking on ravelry I honestly donât like all the results and think the colour selection makes a big difference in the result. It looks like 9 colours are used so you might have to double up on a couple of colours or choose two more to offset the greens.
Hereâs the ravelry page
(Note it says errata available and has a link)
And a link to the free pattern download (note on this page it says no corrections so I expect the current download has been corrected)
Hereâs a mosaic pattern whih I think could be really effective in a bunch of greens
But possibly both of these patterns are way off track with what you were considering?
Did you know you can search for âafghanâ on Ravelry and in the left column, put âknittingâ and also how many colors you have?
This one could be effective in your shades of green! It reminds me of the Amish quilt pattern Sunlight and Shadow.
I like the colors. Simplest would be stripes with the colors arranged in the order you like.
Hereâs a Free crochet pattern for a circle of HDCs:
And a striped one with an interesting stitch pattern:
Ooh I like all hose greens, can you make me on too?
Seafoam pattern is nice
https://web.archive.org/web/20150319003007/http://www.pickles.no/breezy-baby-blanket/
I really like this one by Jimiknits!
You could add a few âpopâ colours or even marl the ones you have!
Could anyone tell me with the number of English inches? Does this mean?
Size 301/2x34â(77.5x86.5cm)
This is what Iâm making
English inches? I think your post shows inches (as used in the US) and cm (UK).
So can you tell me how wide it is supposed to be and how long it is going to be?
Size 301/2x34â(77.5x86.5cm)
OK gosh I donât understand what number is for what I just need to know the width and length of what this blanket should be. Thank you for all your help.
I always find it very confusing when inches are written with fractions but in a full size font so the fraction looks like arts of some huge number like 301.
Anyway
30 and a half inches by 34 inches
Or
77 and a half cm by 76 and a half cm
Does this make sense?
GG in the UK we are very particular about constantly switching our units of measurement dependent on what we are talking about.

77.5 x 86.5cm
Can you explain âEnglish inchâ please?
I sometimes wonder why people from the UK in videos use feet, mile, etc. I thought that everyone used metric. Iâm curious. Thatâs all.
We have never fully gone metric in the UK. Road signs are in miles, speed limit signs are in miles per hour, beer is sold in pints and half pints, door step milk delivery is in pints, produce that is weighed is in pounds and ounces. Produce that is prepacked is legally in metric weights, 500g pasta, 250g butter, but the milk I buy is labelled 2272ml or 4 pints because no one here buys milk by the litre. Petrol we buy in litres.
In describing a person weâd say feet and inches never cm. Unless they are a child, childrenâs clothes sizes can be in age or height in cm so we get to know how tall they are in cm but once they reach adulthood they graduate into imperial feet and inches.
In buying fabric though Iâd have to buy by the metre, I cannot figure a yard.
Chest size is in inches (bras are in inches, menâs sweaters and shirt neck sizes) but knitting I have to work in cm because I donât do fractions of inches. I can estimate to within 1 or 2 mm accuracy on small scale items, a room Iâd estimate in meters and cm, a distance by car or train is miles.
Itâs either infuriating or endearing.
And we have weather reporters who change from degrees C to degrees F depending on whether itâs hot out or not.
Whilst I understand chest measurements in inches, I work knitting patterns in cm. I have to flip my tape measure over or use an online calculator to check what size Iâm making.
Good luck in understanding UK weights and measures!
Thanks. Thatâs confusing. If you all can work with it Iâm not about to criticize. Some liquids here are sold by liters and some by gallons, pints, etc. I bought a gallon of milk and a 20 oz. soft drink today. A big bottle of the same (or any other) soft drink would be 2 liters. We have our own go figures. Because Iâve never worked with meters my concept of measuring fabric or how much yarn to buy is yards. I weigh my yarn in grams and measure it in yards. I can get a pretty accurate yard measurement using my arm; thatâs one reason I prefer yards. If I weigh ingredients for cooking Iâll use grams. Iâm not mixed up nor am I inconsistent.
Some things like âgive them an inch and theyâll take a mileâ seem to work best the way they are. One day I might try to find out why we use " for a quote and youâd use '. But not tonight.
The smaller number is almost always width, so the width is 30 1/2", length is 34". Or if you prefer, 30.5" x 34".
301/2x34" should be written as 30-1/2x34".
That should help.
Re your multiple colors project: what about doing that cream blanket, changing to a different green with the rows of boxes? Maybe do the purl rows in the lightest or darkest green?
(Maybe this will help me get back to knitting, starting with a simple scarf with KnitPicks Wonderfluff Ombre. Love that yarn! Took the summer off from knitting and now it is like learning all over again. )