The next step for most beginning knitters after their first scarf is tackling a blanket... or, at least, trying to. The appeal of the knit blanket is multi-faceted: not only are you still working in a flat rectangle, so there's no need to graduate to knitting in the round quite yet, but the size of your project has increased significantly, giving you a larger canvas on which to practice fun stitches, work on your tension, or even play around with...