KNITTED PLACEMATS

This simple knitted project has a fun story. Sometime last year I found a bag of yarn in my stash box and wondered for a while about a pretty project I could turn it into. Since I was quite busy with all kind of other projects I wanted it to be simple yet practical. I've settled on knitted placemats (inspired by these ones from Debbie Bliss magazine)

The off-white and dark brown colours of yarn seemed perfect for a rustic feel of knitted placemats.  I've decided to make them in a simple seed stitch (described below) and casted on.
After several days of sporadic knitting I found a couple of other crafts  to keep me busy and my half-finished project slowly migrated from the craft basket in the living room to the office/craft space downstairs.

Weeks have passed until I remembered about my unfinished project.  I got enthusiastic about knitting and thought of different ways of incorporating knitted placemats in our decor.

Turned out that faith, or should I say Sebka (our cat), had a different plan for the placemats; I found him sleeping on my unfinished project on the floor in the craft room.  He managed to drag it out of the basket and though it to be a perfect sleeping mattress.  It also looked like it wasn't the first time he was using the placemat leaving me no choice but to finish this new cat mat project.

I still believe these would make nice placemats or decorative mats. No matter what purpose they would serve you, here are simple instructions:

• Decide on the dimensions of you final placemat 

• Cast on an even number of stitches

• Seed stitch: 

          First row (k, p) repeat until the end           

Second row (p, k) repeat until the end

• Repeat 2 rows until the placemat is of desired size. Cast off. 

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A year ago: SPRING TAG
Two years ago: BERNAT CABLE HAT