Ohio Star pillowcover
Finished
2006
September 12, 2012

Ohio Star pillowcover

Project info
Knitting
me
20" square
Needles & yarn
US 5 - 3.75 mm
2,500 yards = 10 skeins
Lana Gatto California Cotton DK
250 yards in stash
2 skeins = 500.0 yards (457.2 meters), 100 grams
5198
Brown
Smiley's Yarns
Lana Gatto California Cotton DK
500 yards in stash
3 skeins = 750.0 yards (685.8 meters), 150 grams
5171
Brown
Smiley's Yarns
Lana Gatto California Cotton DK
500 yards in stash
5 skeins = 1250.0 yards (1143.0 meters), 250 grams
5042
Blue-green
Smiley's Yarns
Notes

Took a quilt pattern and converted to a knitted pattern.

Double Strand Garter stitch squares abt 6” sq: 10 solid green (G); 8 tri-colored (T)
Random stripe garter stitch seam (4” wide) why in the world did I do a seam that wide! Must have wanted to practice saddle shoulders

The six-inch square’s construction is based on the garter stitch baby blanket diagram at top of page 53 of Elizabeth Zimmerman’s The Opinionated Knitter. Color changes at corner turns mimic the colored triangles that combine to make the tricolored quilt blocks.

G T G

T G T

G T G

Tricolor square:

 \  B   /
  \    /  
   \ /

DO / \ G
/ \
/ B \

Apr 2012: Not liking the random stripe garter stitch seam. Will rip out and replace with applied I-cord seams and closure.

8/24/12: ripped out the striped garter st saddle seams and started applied I-cord seams with green only.

9/5: almost finished this tonight. Have about six inches of I-cord border to go and then I need to make about two feet of i-cord cord and I’m done.

9/12: finished knitting the I-cord lacing cord (which ended up a little more than sixty inches in length, not 2 ft) for closure. All done but the pics which I will do tomorrow in daylight.

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Finished
2006
September 12, 2012
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Lana Gatto
DK
100% Cotton
250 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: June 29, 2009
  • Finished: September 13, 2012
  • Updated: June 3, 2022
  • Progress updates: 2 updates