Festive Blanket in Deramores Studio Chunky Acrylic - Downloadable PDF

Festive Blanket in Deramores Studio Chunky Acrylic by Sarah Murray – Knitting Pattern Summary

About This Pattern

The Festive Blanket is a beautifully designed knitted throw created by Sarah Murray, a freelance knitting and crochet designer based in Cornwall. Published by Deramores and available as a downloadable PDF, this pattern is rated beginner level, making it an ideal project for those who are new to knitting or looking for a relaxing, straightforward make. The finished blanket measures 70cm wide by 100cm long, creating a generous lap blanket or decorative throw with a distinctly festive, seasonal feel.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single knitted blanket or throw worked in a colourwork design using three coordinating shades of Deramores Studio Chunky yarn. The colour palette — Frost (Yarn A), Fir (Yarn B), and Ruby (Yarn C) — evokes a classic festive winter aesthetic, combining cool icy tones with deep evergreen and rich red accents. The blanket features a structured main body worked from charts alongside neat border and edging sections, resulting in a polished, professional-looking finished piece.

Yarn and Materials

• Yarn: Deramores Studio Chunky Acrylic, a chunky weight yarn used throughout
• Frost (Yarn A): 5 x 100g balls
• Fir (Yarn B): 3 x 100g balls
• Ruby (Yarn C): 2 x 100g balls
• Needles: A pair of 6mm knitting needles
• Additional tools: Stitch holders

Tension

The pattern calls for a tension of 13 stitches and 16 rows to measure 10cm x 10cm (4in x 4in) using 6mm needles over stocking stitch. Achieving the correct tension is particularly important in this pattern because the garter stitch edgings and the stocking stitch main body are worked separately — the two stitch types have different natural tensions, and working them simultaneously would cause the blanket to pull and not lie flat.

Stitches Used

• Garter Stitch (g-st): Every row is knitted on both the right side and wrong side. This stitch is used for the borders and edgings of the blanket, creating a firm, non-curling edge that frames the design neatly.
• Stocking Stitch (st-st): The right side rows are knitted and the wrong side rows are purled. This is the primary stitch used for the main body of the blanket, and all colourwork charts are worked in stocking stitch.

Techniques Used

• Thumb cast-on method: The pattern specifies casting on 89 stitches using the thumb method with Yarn A and 6mm needles to begin the blanket.
• Colourwork from charts: The main body of the blanket is worked using colourwork charts. Right side rows are read from right to left, and wrong side rows are read from left to right — a standard approach for flat knitting from charts.
• Colour joining and weaving in ends: When joining a new colour, ends are woven in on the wrong side of the work as you knit, minimising the number of loose ends to sew in once the blanket is complete.
• Separate edging construction: The garter stitch edgings are knitted separately from the stocking stitch body and then sewn on. An extra stitch is cast on for each edging specifically to facilitate this seaming process, ensuring the blanket lies perfectly flat.
• Use of stitch holders: Stitch holders are used during construction to hold stitches while other sections are worked.

Pattern Construction and Structure

The blanket begins with an upper border worked in 6 rows of garter stitch