Tuck Stitch Charity Baby Blankets

Having received several boxes of yarn from my sister's estate I realized Katie never made it past a clearance table without buying something. Most of the yarn is pastel and only a couple skeins of the same dye lot. She loved to crochet baby blankets so a small amount was enough.

I have a 270 Brother bulky machine and though I'd like to try some tuck patterns. I just opened the manual and knitted Pattern #100 (the small pattern on the right side of the picture) right out of the book. That went well so I knitted the one on the left pattern #85. I didn't want to crochet around the edges so I used a machine roping trim that is fast and fun to do. With no new babies in the family these will be donated to a charity. I have white, yellow, pink and blue yarn left to knit up something for babies. I wonder if I will need to sew on a care label? I'll have to get on the internet to see where to get some.

If you have never done machine roping here is how it's done:

Set tension dial 1 tension tigher than main tension. Carriage on the right, wrong side to you, pick up 3 stitches from the edge and knit 6 rows. Using a 3-prong tool, skip 2 or 3 stitches and pick up 3 new stitches from the edge and hang onto the 3 empty needles left of the stitches you just knitted (6 needles are now in work). *Knit 6 rows. With 3-prong tool lift 3 stitches on the right and place them on top of the 3 stitches on the left. Skip 2 or 3 stitches and pick up 3 new stitches and hang on empty needles to the left* Repeat from * to * all the way around. The number of skipped stitches determines the size of the gap between lo0ps in the roping