tumbling Blanket
Knit Blanket Pattern
Rotating squares create the illusion of motion on this blanket worked in vibrant colors.
This is one of 30 blankets in the Geometric Knit Blankets book.
Tumbling Blanket by Margaret Holzmann, worked in everyone’s favorite, Cascade 220 Superwash. Photo by Gerard Holzmann.
Tumbling Blanket by Margaret Holzmann, worked in everyone’s favorite, Cascade 220 Superwash. Photo by Gerard Holzmann.
Alternate Color Designs for TUMBLING blanket
To experiment with colors for this blanket, see the the Supplemental Content (access code at end of book) to download a coloring page to experiment with your own color ideas.
Almost any contrasting color combinations that you like will work for this design. Just make sure that subsequent colors have high contrast so that you can see the squares.
Below is a photo of Ursula N’s knit of Tumbling with the following colors: A: purple, B: yellow, C: Robin’s egg blue, D: Mint Green, E: Navy Blue, F: White, G: Teal, H: White.
Tumbling is worked in 8 colors from the Cascade 220 Superwash line.
This blanket is worked modularly.
Tumbling Blanket by Margaret Holzmann, worked in everyone’s favorite, Cascade 220 Superwash. Photo by Gerard Holzmann.
Tumbling Blanket by Margaret Holzmann, worked in everyone’s favorite, Cascade 220 Superwash. Photo by Gerard Holzmann.
Inspiration
I was an engineer at JPL and our typical spacecraft was spin-stabilized along the axis of the direction that the spacecraft travels. Decreasing the rate of spin is sometimes done by a process called de-tumbling.
I chose very bright primary colors plus green for this design to highlight the blocks.
Artist’s rendering of Cassini spacecraft during orbit insertion at Saturn. Illustration by NASA.
The blanket below, made by Karyn Matveyenko, was knitted from her stash in subtle earthy colors. When she ran short of yarn, she worked the i-cord border which requires substantially less yardage.
