When knitting a baby blanket, how many loops should i cast on?

For a blanket 50X50 you will need 14 ounces of 3 ply baby yarn Use knitting needle #6 14 " length cast on 303 stitches and knit in a moss stitch. Row 1 k 1 p 1 across Row 2 p1 k1 row will continue following row1 and 2

When knitting a baby blanket, how many loops should i cast on?
here let me give you a very simple answer as well as a pattern that you can follow.





http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/khs-...





this pattern requires a bulky weight yarn with 555 yards of yarn, size 11 needles getting 2 1/4 stitches to the inch.





enjoy making your baby blanket





this blanket will be 36 inches wide
Reply:That depends on two things


1. the gauge of you're knitting


2. How wide you want your blanket to be.


If you haven't knit a gauge swatch, your best bet is probably to knit a quick one now. Cast on twenty-five stitches if it's anything other than a really fine yarn you're using, more if it's fine. Knit for about 4 inches. Take the swatch off of the needles and holding a ruler across the swatch, count how many stitches fit into a 4" space. Figure out how wide you want your blanket to be...this varies based on what purpose you'd like the blanket to serve. I make smaller ones for my nieces to use in their carseats when they were tiny and bigger ones for crib/play blankets. Anyway...say you get a gauge of 16 stitches in the 4 inches. Then in order to make a 32 inch wide blanket, you'd need to cast on 128 stitches. I hope that this helps you out. The book that I have beside me right now has dimensions of 25' x 30' and 30'x30' for it's blankets. There are tonnes of free baby blanket patterns online so you could always look for something using a similar yarn to yours and just use the needles and number of stitches that they recommend. The exact dimensions won't be important unless you're making it to fit a bed or something.


Good luck!
Reply:That's really too vague a question to answer well. What kind of yarn do you have, what sized needles, how big do you want this to be, are you willing to do some swatching and some math?





The average baby blanket is about 36 inches square. If you are willing to take the needles you plan to knit with and the yarn you want to use, cast on 30 stitches and knit a piece 4 inches deep. Take the needle out, place the knitting flat on a table and measure two inches of stitches (put a straight pin on the left edge of a stitch in the middle of the knitting, line the ruler up on that, and put a second pin in at the 2 inch mark exactly, even if its in the middle of a stitch, now count the stitches between the two pins and divide by 2). Take the number of stitches per inch and multiply that by 36, rounding up to the next higher number if you have a half stitch or more in your math, or down a stitch if you have less than a half a stitch. Knit from this number.





However, there's an even easier one, no math necessary. It's the Granny's Dish Cloth pattern that has no size needed. Cast on 3 stitches and knit 6 rows. Next row, knit front and back of each stitch, 6 stitches on the needle. Next row (and all succeeding rows to the midpoint of the afghan), knit 3, yarn over, knit to the end. Repeat this row until each long side measures 36 inches. You are at the midpoint of the afghan. Next row, knit 3, yo, knit the next two stitches together, knit across to the last two stitches before the yarn over in the last row, knit 2 together again, knit to the end. Repeat this row until you have 6 stitches left. Next row, knit 2 together across, 3 stitches remain. Knit 6 rows even and cast off. This one works for any size yarn, any size needle, you can use up odd balls of yarn in it, or you can use about 5 balls (800 yards or so) of a single yarn.
Reply:the number of stitches really depends on the needle size


use size 17 and cast on 137, knit until 48" for a regular sized baby blanket



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