When a calf is born into an elephant herd, all the herd members celebrate the new arrival. It’s not just the elephant mom, who lovingly cares for her little one—the entire herd provides care and protection so that the baby elephant can grow up safe and sound. Given this great “elephant love,” this motif is the perfect choice for a baby blanket. But you could also make a cozy throw blanket using this motif if you knit it twice in width and twice in height.

The blanket is double knitted, so the design shows on both sides with reversed colours.

Required skills: double knitting in general.

You will get two pdf files:

• general instructions on how to make the blanket
• knitting chart (4 pages) for the motif

skills level: advanced

Please download all files that start with "en - ...."

Gauge: 25 stitches x 35 rows = 10 x 10 cm

With this gauge, size of the finished blanket will be approx. 60 cm x 85 cm

• Lang Yarns Merino 200 Bébé Color (203 m / 50 g) Orange-Red-Violet (Col. 155.0554) and White, approx. 4 skeins à 50 g each (for the blanket shown I used about 180 g per colour)
• Alternative yarn: Rico Design Superba Cashmeri Luxury Socks and Unicorn Solid (from Hobbii); you could also combine these two yarns
• knitting needles 2.5 mm / US 1 ½, I recommend circular needles with 80 cm or longer
• tapestry needle, scissors