Rios Slip Stitch Afghan
As I mentioned this past Friday, I was able to finish the Rios Slip Stitch Afghan. Just thought I’d give blog readers the full story about this project.
Who Owns The Rios Slip Stitch Afghan Design?
A local friend of mine is an artist. She includes fiber arts in her repertoire. As such, social media has presented her with a lot of advertisements for yarn-related businesses.
One of those promotional posts is from beWoolen Yarn & Supplies, selling their kit for a beautiful knitted afghan project. The kit includes 10 hanks of Malabrigo Rios, a beWoolen logo zip-top clear view tote, along with a full color printed pattern for a slip-stitch afghan. It retails for $182 plus shipping.
My friend wanted to knit this afghan, but knew she could get Malabrigo Rios for less than $18 a skein. She wasn’t willing to pay $182 for an afghan kit.
I told her that I could write her a pattern for a similar afghan if she wanted to buy her own Rios.
Then, I got offered two incredibly good sale offers for Malabrigo Rios for under $12 a hank. And shipping was free if I bought enough. So I bought enough for more than two afghans and offered to sell my friend any of it for my cost.
Seeing all this beautiful yarn, I decided to make the afghan myself. And then I found a pattern for a Rios slip stitch baby blanket.
It turns out this pattern has instructions for both a baby blanket AND and afghan. It looks like the same type of pattern for $5.
My friend is a relatively new knitter. She asked me to give her a simpler pattern for an afghan using Rios. She’s now working on a woven-stitch afghan (with i-cord edging).
And me…?
Finished Afghan
The finished afghan is just beautiful. It’s big, it’s soft and it’s truly gorgeous.
The finished measurements before blocking was about 48″x58″. Since Rios is superwash, it relaxes a lot when wet and blocked. Final size was about 57″x72″ after blocking.
All ready to give as a gift next week at the retreat!
oh gorgeous! I am trying to make lots of afghans and lap blankets for my family as my “legacy” to give them warm hugs now and when I’m gone. I would love a pattern like this. ICord edges are awesome too!
It’s beautiful what great work. I’ve never done icord before. Enjoy your day Joe☮️💖
Hi Joe.. Well Rios pattern and yarn is up to $192.00. It gets me so angry they have to monopolize the pattern. I had gone with a different yarn in Malabrigo with a color scheme that even blew me away. I have to let it go. I’ll get a knock off chenille bed spread and put curlers in my hair n pretend I have oodles of money. Happy Trails and like your colors!!
Kia Ora Joe
Thank you SO much for the link to buy the pattern!
Nga mihi
Jan
I was so excited to find this information because I really wanted this pattern but I don’t want to use Malabrigo. Any thoughts on making it with Cascade Wave? It’s what was recommended by my local yarn store. Thank you!
Glad I could help. I don’t usually recommend any of the Cascade Yarns and even if no did, I don’t know anything about Wave.
Hi Joe – I’m finishing up my first slip-stitch blanket using the Euphoria Knits pattern. I found the link here a few months ago. Do you have experience with putting Rios in the dryer? I’m considering making my Blanket longer, but your size pre- and post-blocking was considerably different. I’m not sure I need to make it longer if it is going to relax that much and not bounce back in the dryer. Thank you.
I have never put wool (superwash or regular) in the dryer, so I definitely don’t know the effect. The best I could suggest is to do a small swatch and measure it before and afterwards to see if you can get a sense.
Thanks, Joe. 🙂