Quick-Knit Throw (and tips)

Some knitting tips for a throw. It took me only a week to knit it on size 19US needles. I used Seeded Rib Check - the usual version is over twelve
rows, but at this big a gauge, I find an eight row pattern to be better proportioned.

Multiple of 4 + 3

Rows 1,3: K1, P1,*K3, P1*, K1
Rows 2,4: *K3, P1*, K3
Rows 5,7: As Row 2
Rows 6,8: As Row 1

I used several strands of yarns combined together to about a bulky weight - were it a sweater it would have probably been knit on US 13, but a throw
should have more drape. I slipped the first stitch of each row for a neat selvedge.

A simple backwards loop cast works well for me in large-gauge projects - I made it 59 stitches across. Interestingly, over a smaller, shorter swatch,
this looked to be close to four feet wide, but the weight and pull of the throw as it was knit makes the throw narrow significantly, it was only three feet
across when done. So when working a large heavy project, you may want to make it a bit wider than you think you need it to be. My throw was about 62 inches
long, exclusive of fringe. I fringed this pattern lavishly, using a double strand of all yarns attached with a half-hitch every other stitch. A quick way
to measure off fringe is to wind it around a length of stiff cardboard and then cut one end (the same end of the cardboard at which you have begun and ended
winding.)