How to Knit a Mitered Square – An Awesome Variation
Are you picking up your knitting bag whenever you leave home - just in case you have a spare moment to knit? Then you'll enjoy the mitered square variation to keep those hands busy.
You can check out all my previous patterns here:-
The original:
Free Easy Knit Square Pattern to Make a Quick Throw
then followed:
Variation on Easy & Quick Knit Square – Free Pattern
How to Knit Mitered Lace Square
another:
Mitered Block in the square version
The bobble-like mitered square
and
Rainbow MITERED SQUARE
Today, I am sharing:
How to knit a mitered square variation
The new variation is knit in stocking stitch with a garter stitch row every 4th row.
The result is a definite difference from the original pattern and adds dimension to it.
For some reason - the square refuses to be square if just knit in stocking stitch. If you know the secret to get it right, please share it with me.
What you'll need:
I used:
- Knitting Needles (I used 4mm, 6US, 8UK)
- Elle Gold Double Knit (DK) yarn / Light worsted yarn
- Stitch Markers
- Blunt Needles (stitching it together)
- The pattern
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The MITERED SQUARE VARIATION Pattern - garter stitch ridge type
Abbreviations
k - Knit
p - Purl
sts - Stitches
skpso - Slip one, Knit one, Pull slip stitch over
ktog - Knit together
MITERED SQUARE VARIATION PATTERN
Cast on 47 sts
1 - k21, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, psso, k21 (45sts)
2 - p
3 - k20, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, psso, k20 (43sts)
4 - k21,p1, k21
5 - k19, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, psso, k19 (41sts)
6 - p
7 - k18, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, psso, k18 (39sts)
8 - k19, p1, k19
9 - k17, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k17 (37sts)
10 - p
11 - k16, k2tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k16 (35sts)
12 - k17, p1,k17
13 - k15, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k15(33sts)
14 - p
15 - k14, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k14 (31sts)
16 - k15, p1, k15
17 - k13, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k13 (29sts)
18 - p
19 - k12 k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k12 (27sts)
20 - k13,p1, k13
21 - k11, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1 pslsto, k11(25sts)
22 - p
23 - k10, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k10 (23sts)
24 - k11, p1, k11
25 - k9, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k9(21sts)
26 - p
27 - k8 k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k8(19sts)
28 - k9, p1, k9
29 - k7, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k7(17sts)
30 - p
31 - k6, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k6(15sts)
32 - k7, p1, k7
33 - k5, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k5 (13sts)
34 - p
35 - k4, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k4(11sts)
36 - k5, p1, k5
37 - k3, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k3 (9sts)
38 - p
39 - k2, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k2 (7sts)
40- k3, p1, k3
41 - k1, k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto, k1 (5sts)
42 - p
43 - k2 tog, k1, sl1, k1, pslsto (3sts)
44 - k1, p1, k1
45 - k3 tog
How to use the knit mitered square variation?
Decide on the dimensions of the throw/blanket you want to make.
Then knit several squares and arrange it to form the outline according to your dimensions.
You'll get an indication of how many squares you'll be needing to complete one row and then how many rows to complete the throw/blanket = x amount of squares.
The knit square variation pattern can be used to form a block around the middle or around the border of your throw.
In case you scrolled to the bottom:
Here are the links to more VARIATIONS ON THE MITERED KNIT SQUARE:
- Knit a lacy version of the square - pattern here.
- A garter stitch ridge-like variation of the knit block, can be found here.
- Block in the square variation is available here.
- Contrasting Stripey square.
You can totally do it!
Please share you finished product with me - my email address is in the contact section of the upper right hand corner.
Happy Knitting!
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