Are you ready for some knitting fun in 2025?
This year we wanted to tackle how to knit a log cabin blanket but as some of you may know, I like to add my own twist to things. I wanted to take those Gansey stitches that my inner designer hadn’t quite finished with and combine it with the construction of a log cabin blanket that my inner engineer was calling for.
And I am so excited to share it all with you:

Blanket Club Overview and Table of Contents
We know you love learning all the behind-the-scenes information on our clubs so here is a handy set of quick links so you can jump to your favourite section:
This year our Blanket Club will be released as one large pattern installment with a complete set of step-by-step videos as well as a dedicated chat thread and support threads.
Our Blanket Club will have three sizing options; either the Lap size, Throw and Bedspread.
The Lap Blanket will have 6 squares – 2 x 3.
The Throw Blanket will have 12 squares – 3 x 4.
The Bedspread will have 20 squares – 4 x 5.
Please note that each square is approx. 16 inches (slight variation depending on square location).
There will be three amazing yarn options which I’ll chat through below. And if you’re wondering what some of our knitters had to say about last year’s blanket club, Lisa P. left this thoughtful message:
I am really enjoying the Blanket Club Squares. I cannot wait for the next set of squares to be released. I will then have to decide which squares I am going to repeat to complete my blanket. It will be a hard decision as all of the squares are so pretty.
Lisa P.
And if you’d like to watch me chat through the 2025 Blanket Club you can do that here:
Blanket Club 2025 – Behind the Design
I love to learn new techniques and styles of knitting and then figure out how to make them my own. This is just what happened on our 2025 Blanket Club design. I’ve taken the Log Cabin construction style and Gansey style stitches and created something new which blends them both.
For me, my exploration of Gansey style stitches came first.
Last year my spring KAL, Torc, used these knit and purl combinations but with a top-down seamless saddle shoulder construction. The subtle texture and motifs that you can create with humble knit-purl combinations never ceases to make me happy!
The Log Cabin style blanket is something I’ve been looking at for a while. The simplicity of the style and the graphic and colourful possibilities it opened up, had me fascinated. At it’s most basic, its all in garter stitch, starting with a central garter stitch square and then turning at right angles you continue to work garter strips. These strips get longer (but not wider) with each new strip. This opens up the possibility of using many different colours making it a great style if you want to use up yarn that you have as leftovers.
However, I do love to experiment.
So, I’ve taken the basic idea of the Log Cabin style and combined garter and Gansey strips of knitting. This has involved some careful calculations to ensure each strip is the same length and width even with different stitch patterns. Then final squares are very satisfying to knit and make you want to keep knitting ‘just one more’!
We know that blanket squares make fantastic travel projects so we have designed this blanket to have several squares that you will then seam together at the end. This will also give you the opportunity to modify the size of the blanket as well to suit you.
We will have kits in lap, throw and bedspread size so you will have a lot of options! Each square will have 4 different Gansey strip designs within it. We will have 3 different squares in total, so 12 different Gansey strips to work with. If there is the same number of stitches within a strip you can mix and match them to use your favourites.

Blanket Club Yarns
This blanket is designed with 5 colours of a dk wool yarn. Our kits will come with 3 different types of yarn to pick from; Wooldreamers ‘Mota’, Stolen Stitches ‘Blasta’ or Stolen Stitches ‘Gaillimh’ in exclusive Ellie Dunne colours.
Kit colours will have 4 colours which shade palettes working from lighter to darker and one contrast colour that will create a pop. This contrast colour will form the central garter stitch ‘square’ of each blanket square and it will also be the final surrounding colour that will anchor all squares together.

Wooldreamers ‘Mota’ (100% Wool; 252 yards/ 230 m per 3.6 oz/ 100g)
Mota was a surprising find for me. I first discovered this yarn at Barcelona Knits in 2023. It’s spun by a wonderful Spanish mill and it’s got a plump, soft feel. While this is a woollen spun yarn it’s denser than the Irish yarn, making the stitches substantial and voluptuous as you knit. I found this yarn a complete pleasure to knit with and I didn’t want the knitting to finish!

Stolen Stitches ‘Blasta’ (60% Irish wool, 40% New Zealand wool, 232 yds / 212 m per 100g)
Blasta is the first yarn we created with Donegal Yarns and I’m still in love with it. It’s a heavy DK yarn that is also woollen spun and has a very woolly feel. When washed this yarn blooms and fills out significantly which makes it very forgiving to knit with. If you’ve got a little bit of unevenness to your stitches the yarn will help to even that out for you after blocking. While not as soft as the Mota option, Blasta is very comfortable to knit with and will create a blanket that wears well over time.

Stolen Stitches ‘Gaillimh’ (100% Galway Wool; 208 yds / 190 m per 3.6 oz / 100 g)
Gaillimh yarn comes from the 100% Irish Galway wool from the Galway Wool Co-Op that has been spun by Donegal Yarns. Gailimh creates a sturdy fabric that is perfect as a bedspread or throw. The robust nature of this yarn makes it ideal if your blanket is going to be heavily used as it will wear well.
The exclusive colours for this year’s club were designed by Ellie Dunne, a fine art student from Dublin who has a wonderful eye for colour. Ellie is using them to create a unique woven blanket that she is selling directly herself and we are then using the same colours in our kits for you to knit your own blanket.

Supporting Together Academy
This year through our Blanket Club, we are supporting the Together Academy by donating 5 euro from every full club or digital club sold. This is a charity that Ellie herself supports with her other sales.
The Together Academy is an initiative of The Down Syndrome Centre and is a unique college and social enterprise in Dublin that provides young adults with certified training, practical work experience, employment opportunities and a critical social and support network.
Currently, 90% of adults with Down Syndrome in Ireland are not in paid employment.
Together, we can help change that statistic.

How To Join The 2025 Blanket Club
Full Club
You can purchase our full club right here from the 6th and close on the 29th of February 2025. This link will go live at 8pm on Thursday, February 6th.
JOIN THE CLUB (8pm February 6th Irish time)
Digital Club
Our digital club will stay open throughout the year and gives you access to all of our live zooms, pattern releases and step-by-step workshops for the club. It’s the perfect option if you’d like to stash dive or you find us after the full club closes.
JOIN THE DIGITAL CLUB (8pm February 6th Irish time)
We’re so excited about this year’s club and we hope you can join me as I explore gansey stitches and a fun log cabin blanket build. Drop a comment below and let us know if you’re joining us and what you’re most excited about.
I love the idea of using gansey stitches in a log cabin, and can’t believe it’s not been done before!
It’s very satisfying!
Wow, how exciting! Love the log cabin graphic design concept and the turquoise and orange bundle has caught my eye. Hmmm, I still need to seam the cable squares together from last year.
I’m ready to knit a blanket. I like log cabin, and wonder if using my own coordinating ones would work?
I’ll be joining – 8pm eastern, central, mountain, pacific????? Thanks don’t want to miss – haven’t finished last years but loving every minute of it !!!!!
Thanks so very much for doing again!!!!
Dawn
Washington state
This sounds really interesting especially because I’m in the process of making the Liberty of London Argyll quilt which is a log cabin and modified log cabin design using a lot of that sublime Liberty Tana Lawn mixed with Liberty quilting cotton.
Because I’ve also signed up for the full Celtic club this year with the yarns (can’t wait!), and because I have a large quantity of Rowan DK yarns that were part of a mystery blanket club from a few years back, I will end up opting for the digital subscription for the blanket. After making 4 very fussy beaded squares for that mystery blanket, I put the yarn (and the squares for yarn re-use) away, because I couldn’t see it coming along as a “practical” blanket that could be easily washed and used, it was more like a “show” blanket with all those beads and I’m all about practical. I’ve been waiting for a project where I could use those yarns and this sounds perfect. I also love gansey stitches so it’s a win all around!
Oh that yarn sounds like it will work great for the blanket!
Hi Dawn, it’ll be Irish time. I’ll update the page to reflect this. If you’re signed up for the newsletter it will be sent out as it launches.
Do you mean your own coordinating yarns? Yes it would indeed.
Still lots of time to seam! The yarn doesn’t ship until April and the pattern is in May.
I love knitting log cabin blankets; in fact, I’m just finishing one up in a slubby cotton yarn for a young grand niece. And I’m crazy about gansey stitches, so this is the perfect combination for me!
One question: are the different yarn options all knitted to the same gauge, or is the softer yarn at a somewhat tighter gauge than the sturdy Galway yarn? I love my Galway blanket, and I’m torn between the beautiful greens of the Gaillimh kit and the lovely blues of the Blasta, which I haven’t worked with yet. Thanks for providing such a difficult choice!
This looks very interesting and fun! Are you able to share yardage requirements? Thank you.
Hi Anne,
Yes they are knit at the same gauge. However the Mota softer option is a ‘fatter’ yarn so at the same gauge it is knit slightly tighter.
Of course! You will need 5 colours of a woolly dk yarn in the following amount for the lap (throw, bedspread) sizes:
Approx yardage:
Colour 1 732 (1364, 2185) yds / 668 (1245, 1994) m
Colour 2: 175 (350, 583) yds / 160 (319, 532) m
Colour 3: 225 (450, 749) yds / 205 (410, 684) m
Colour 4: 252 (504, 860) yds / 230 (460, 784) m
Colour 5: 308 (616, 1008) yds / 281 (562, 920) m
I can’t wait for this to open up. I love everything about it!
Hi Carol – My sister in Donegal loves your patterns and clubs and sent me this link. I’m in Canada. Can you ship here in the timelines, or would I do better to buy a digital membership? Many thanks, Isabel
Two questions, Carol. Which yarn is easier on the hands, Gaillamh or Wool Dreamers. I’m concerned that Wool Dreamers is more dense. Lighter rustic yarns usually don’t give my old hands any issues. Does one slide more easily on the needles. I know it varies from person to person, but would welcome your opinion. Second question, what is the dominant color in the Gaillamh set? Thanks
Hi Jane, Wooldreamers is going to be softer. Gaillimh is a rougher, more rustic yarn. I found Mota very easy on the hands to works with.
Hi Isabel, We can definitely ship to Canada in time! We have many customers in Canada and aim to ship to Canada, Australia and New Zealand earlier than to other countries so it has more time.
Yeah!
How do you join the blanket club. I see the digital but no access to full? Thank you debra
Hi Debra,
The full club will open at 8 pm tonight. It’s not open yet!
OK, Carol, that’s great (re the shipping). I’m getting the colour selection from a granddaughter as we speak. :-) I have one more question. If I were making it from scratch, as it were, I’d aim for closer to 36 inches of width. I could add a wee border to the lap size, which would change the look and also take more yarn of one of the colours. (I’m a little bit chicken to tackle the next size up.) What’s your advice? Can you figure out how much extra yarn I’d need and which colour would work best given the design? Or is it better to just pick one of the standard sizes?
Hi Isabel, the set of strips on all sides will be done in C1 to create a border around each square. You could easily just make each one a little wider without a problem I think. One extra ball of C1 should work I think. You can a message on to us through the website to add extra.