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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is another Coded Blessing Blanket<\/a>.<\/p>\n This time, though, it’s for my 22-year-old son.<\/p>\n I’d finished knitting for babies in the family. (Though now it’s time to knit again.) So I asked my son if there were anything he’d like me to knit for him. He said, “Blue Blankie could use a stunt double.”<\/p>\n Blue Blankie is the blanket I knitted him when I was expecting his birth and I was on bed rest. After he was born, I gave him the blanket every time I fed him. I was happy when he took Blue Blankie with him to college, but yes, sadly, Blue Blankie is falling apart.<\/p>\n However, Tim said he’d like a purple blanket this time. And I’d already used the same pattern to knit a blanket for my niece Alyssa with a blessing coded in the stitches<\/a>. So I decided to do the same for Tim.<\/p>\n Here’s how it works. The stitches make a sort of plaid pattern with knits and purls. The pattern has a sequence of 12 rows that make one large pattern-row. Each pattern-row has seven smooth panels on the front side of the blanket. And each smooth panel is split into two parts. So I used those panels to code words of seven letters or less.<\/p>\n The code I used was base 5. So A = 01, B = 02, C = 03, D = 04, E = 10, F = 11, and so on. So I only need 5 stitch patterns, using three stitches.<\/p>\n I used some simple patterns. 0 is knit each stitch. This matches the background.<\/p>\n 1 is purl each stitch, making a bumpy row.<\/p>\n 2 is a cable made by holding 2 stitches to the back.<\/p>\n 3 is a cable made by holding 1 stitch to the front. (Making the cable go the opposite direction from 2.)<\/p>\n 4 is a yarnover and knit 2 together — making a hole.<\/p>\n Here’s a closer look at how the stitches turned out.<\/p>\n