Prym Living Instructions for Bedspread

Bedspread – at lightning speed! Hand-knitted bedspreads were previously either extremely expensive to buy or making them took up too much time. Thanks to the new knitting mill MAXI from Prym, however, this is no longer the case. Now it’s done in a wink – following the motto: better a long than a long face. Simply choose your favourite colours, combine them to your taste in your own sequence of strips and get cranking! For a bedspread measuring 120 cm x 160 cm, knit 3 strips of the same length and sew them together by hand. Add a fringe to produce a nice finish and give your bedspread an exclusive touch.

Enjoy! Your Prym team

Bedspread

Material: 50 g new wool in red; 150 g new wool in pink; 100 g mohair wool each in old rose, red and bordeaux; 100 g fleece yarn each in orange, aubergine, pale red and red; all for needle size 4–5.5; knitting mill MAXI, article number 624 170; , article number 611 511; wool needle, article number 124 119; , article number 195 177; strip of grey board, 20 cm x 12 cm.

Degree of difficulty: easy Time required: 10–12 hours

Here’s how to do it:

1. First slide the mode switch of the knitting mill MAXI to the down position for “knitting a flat panel“. Turn the crank anticlockwise as far as it will go. The coloured hook is now slightly to the right of the yarn guide.

2. For the first row, which would be the , feed approx. 40 cm of the yarn into the centre of the knitting mill MAXI. Thread the yarn from right to left under the opened, raised coloured hook and then pass it behind the next hook. Slowly turn the crank in clockwise direction and thread the yarn through the third hook coming up, before placing it behind the fourth hook. Now alternate between threading the yarn through the hook and placing it behind the next hook until you are back to the coloured hook.

3. Turn the crank as far as it will go. Thread the yarn under the two hooks to the left of the coloured hook and pull it through the slot into the groove of the yarn guide. Thread the yarn from the front to the back through the tension piece. How often the yarn is threaded through the tension piece depends on the type of yarn. In principle, the thinner and smoother the yarn, the more often it needs to be threaded through the tension piece. Now keep turning the crank backwards and forwards one row at a time. Make sure that the yarn is taut at the start of each row to prevent ladders at the edges.

4. For the bedspread, knit the first 30 rows using mohair wool in bordeaux. Cut off the yarn at the end of the row leaving a length of approx. 25 cm. Now place the fleece yarn in pale red into the knitting mill MAXI, also leaving a length of 25 cm. Thread the yarn under the third hook to the left of the coloured hook. Place the yarn directly into the groove of the yarn guide and thread it through the tension piece. Slightly tauten the loose yarn ends in the centre of the knitting mill MAXI. Now turn the crank to knit 6 rows in the new colour. Each further change of colour follows the same principle.

5. Follow this with 12 rows in pink, 20 rows using mohair wool in red, 8 rows in aubergine, 10 rows in orange, 12 rows in pink, 8 rows in pale red, 20 rows using fleece yarn in red, 20 rows in old rose, 12 rows in aubergine, 12 rows in orange, 6 rows in pale red, 12 rows in pink, 12 rows using mohair wool in red, 8 rows in old rose, 6 rows in pale red, 16 rows in old rose, 12 rows in orange, 8 rows in aubergine, 4 rows using fleece yarn in red, and 30 rows in bordeaux. >

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Here’s how to do it:

6. Cut off the yarn leaving a length of approx. 1.5 m, remove it from the tension piece and the yarn guide, and thread it onto the needle. To bind off the last row, slowly turn the crank anticlockwise. Now insert the needle from the back to the front through the stitch to the left of the yarn guide. Turn the crank to the next hook and continue this process until all the stitches are threaded. Finally, turn the crank clockwise again until all the stitches drop off the hooks.

7. Knit a further 2 strips in the same colour sequence. When finished, place the strips next to each other and sew them together using the extended yarn ends. The yarn of two strips is thus sewn up and the strips joined. Now sew up the yarn ends of the outer strip. For the fringe, wrap new wool in red and pink around the narrow side of the grey board. Cut the yarn along the edge of the board. Now place 3 yarns each of both colours in little bundles. Fold them in the middle and weave them into the upper and lower ends of the bedspread at a distance of 5 edge stitches.

General tips

1. Always take approx. 3 m of yarn off the ball to ensure that runs smoothly through the yarn guide.

2. Depending on the wool, the knitted piece will look rather loose. For a tighter knit, use double yarn. Always test the material first. Fleece yarn is ideal to carry along, as it has a low yarn diameter but adds volume due to the length of the tuft.

3. When knitting large, unicoloured panels, the yarns can simply be tied together. If the knot is a little bigger, lift it over the yarn guide to the front, tauten the yarn again and continue knitting.

4. When knitting a flat panel, make sure that the yarn is taut before starting a new row to produce a neat edge without ladders.

5. If a stitch gets caught at the side in a hook over two or three rows, use the plastic needle to lift it over the hook. After , ladders can be mended in the same way.

6. If you find binding off your knitted piece too tedious using the plastic needle, simply add another two or three rows. Then take the knitted piece out of the knitting mill MAXI, undo the rows, and loop up the stitches with a knitting needle. Finally bind off the stitches as if hand-knitted.

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