This video is an introduction to my new Bento Box Quilt pattern, a knitted quilt of course.
And this is the introduction, there's kind of a lot of content in the introduction and
next week, depending on when you're watching this, there will be a free pattern and video
tutorial available.
We can go ahead and cut away to a picture of the whole quilt.
You can see it's kind of visually confusing, but it's not a difficult pattern and it's
actually not difficult construction either.
But it's kind of visually confusing so, I wanted to separate this into two separate
videos.
This one will have...we'll talk about the construction and the yarn and I'll give you
a free coloring page so you can workshop some different colors for it, and then next week
we can start right in with the knitting.
And this video is sponsored by KPC Yarn, I'm using their gorgeous Gossip Chunky Organic
Cotton for this blanket.
This yarn was a delight to work with and we'll talk more about the yarn in a minute.
My inspiration for this is, I always look, click through when someone posts something
about a quilt show, you know, fabric, regular quilts, because they're beautiful and I sometimes
get inspiration for knitting patterns from them.
And I saw this bento box design come up a few times and I look carefully at it because
like I said, it's kind of visually confusing, but I looked carefully at it and I was like,
those are mitered squares, we can do that in knitting.
And so, I put together the pattern with the...
If you click, if you actually do a Google Image search of bento box quilts, you'll get
a lot of different images of the fabric quilts that people have made and that can actually
help you a lot with color inspiration.
But what I have here is just one example of colors, and if my Log Cabin Blanket pattern
is anything to go on, you guys have some really good ideas for putting different colors together.
Okay, so let me move this and I want to show you this.
This is one of the quilt blocks in the blanket, and I'm showing you this, you make 16 of these
for the blanket.
I'm showing you this because I'm going to use some visual aids and I want you to keep
in mind that this is the actual size of the quilt block, not a little, tiny square of
paper.
So, let's go ahead and take a look at what I've put together.
Okay, these are what the quilt blocks look like in my little example here, and you're
going to make two different color combinations, the knitting is identical in both.
And you see here in the colors that I've chosen, there's one background color that runs in
both squares and then a second color, and a third color.
And this is the way the whole thing goes together.
So, this right here is actually one pattern repeat, you're going to repeat this three
more times to make the whole blanket.
Like you saw in the picture, you don't really get the idea of how it goes together.
I want you to really understand the construction before you start knitting.
And I realized the more...
I tried a bunch of different things to make this as easy as possible.
This was...the visual aids I put together here were the easiest way, I think, to make
it easily understood.
Okay, so that's how the whole thing goes together minus the border, that's the whole blanket.
This repeat, four times total minus the border, the mitered squares all start here at the
center of each one of the four repeats.
Okay, so keep that in mind, I'm leading you up to an easy understanding of this whole
thing.
Hopefully, hopefully.
Okay, now the next thing I wanna show you is the coloring page I've put together.
And this is an example of a blank coloring page, here is...this part right here is actually
the key.
It has the letters in it, you see the empty squares are the "A" color and then "B" in
my blanket is represented by green, I'll turn it so you can see.
And then "C" in my blanket is represented by pink.
And this is how the whole thing goes together, this is an exact replica of the little squares
I just showed you, placed.
And then one step further before we get to the real coloring part, this is the exact
same thing without the letters in it.
I discovered that it wasn't very fun to color in over the letters, so you have this as an
option if you wanna workshop some different colors, but I actually found that I preferred...that
the grid lines didn't look very good when I was coloring, so I left you a big, empty
square to color in.
And this is just like that without the grid, just like this without the grid lines.
And you can use this as a key when you fill in this.
And I'll show you...here's one that I filled in.
I'm not that great at coloring and I don't even really have that many colored pencils
to choose from, but you get the idea, it's all here.
I have my main color, which in this is white, my second color in this which is purple, my
third color is orange and my border, my border wasn't supposed to be this color, but it's
gray.
It looks all right, you get the idea.
Okay, so many things, I've got a list here because there are so many things I wanna get
taken care of in this intro so we can just start knitting next week.
This yarn, this awesome yarn from KPC is machine washable and on the yarn label, it says machine
wash but it doesn't recommend machine drying.
Well, I went ahead and put it to the test.
I knit up this sample and I used all the colors in my blanket and I machine washed and dried
it and it came out beautifully.
There was no color bleeding, it came out of the dryer beautifully and after I did this
sample, I felt confident enough to put my whole big blanket in the washer and the dryer
and it actually came out looking better, the stitches looked more even after washing and
drying.
So, KPC doesn't recommend drying, it worked out fine for me, I put it to the test a couple
of times here.
And while we're looking at my colors, I forgot to tell you, these look like...these are happy
springtime colors, but I actually used sushi colors.
Rice, wasabi, pickled ginger, and salmon.
So, they ended up looking like kind of a springtime blanket, but I was thinking sushi when I picked
the colors.
Okay, when you go to the KPC website to order your yarn...I come up against this every time
I work with KPC, the default currency on their website is in Hong Kong dollars and the yarn
is going to look ridiculously expensive.
It's not, the Hong Kong dollar, last time I checked, is 13 cents on the U.S. dollar,
but at the top of the page you can select the currency from your country and actually
see what the actual price is, it's a great value on organic cotton.
And don't worry about ordering from Hong Kong, the shipments arrive so quickly.
I've ordered several times from KPC and my order from KPC usually arrives more quickly
than a domestic yarn order.
I don't know how they do it, but it's not gonna take forever for your yarn to arrive
and I've heard the same thing from a lot of other people.
Quick shipping, yes, 40 colors available on their website and they also have this awesome
little basket where you can throw different colors in and see how, it's called mix and
match I think, you can see how different colors look together before you actually start your
coloring page.
Okay and speaking of the coloring page, if you click the little "i" in the upper right
hand corner, that will take you to my website and on my website I have a link to the Gossip
Chunky Organic Cotton yarn.
I'll have a link so you can download your coloring page.
I will also have information about the needle size and the yarn amounts so you know how
much to order.
What am I missing?
I think that's it and depending on when you're watching this, if the tutorial for the knitting
part, the free pattern and the tutorial is already available, I'll be sure to give you
a link to that if you click the little "i".
Otherwise, have fun with your coloring page and picking your colors and we will get started
with the knitting next week.

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