I hope to share details of this, soon!
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 There was some interest in a beginners color work pattern. This is it! 2 styles My favorite is the scallops, seen above. Which will you knit? Read more on the Colorwork Recipe Page.
 Check out the new additions to the GOODKNITS shop! I finally got around to putting some hats up, yesterday. They’re all woolly and just soso yummy. These were all made during my little obsession with fair isle, a few weeks back. My sons each have one and I have put the others up in the shop. I wrote a pattern for the hats in the bottom row and top center. If anyone is interested in a beginners fair isle pattern, let me know and I’ll get started on a post about it.   Enter coupon code WOOLLOVE to receive 20% off your entire order! That includes all the hats, doily blankets, and even my new photographic prints.  Good day, friends! I’ve been mulling over this decision for a while and I’ve decided I should do a trial run for advertisers/sponsors. I am only going to accept a limited number, but it will be completely affordable and you will get an ad in my sidebar (right below my main menu and above my own shop button) and the opportunity to guest-post on the blog. Traffic has been steadily increasing the past few months (happily hanging above 20,000 unique visits and over 30,000 page loads per month). I had two patterns published in the current (Fall) issue of CraftSanity Magazine and will have another in the Winter issue. The blog was also mentioned in the current (October) issue of Let’s Knit. November will be an exciting month for Goodknits because of the release of my first pattern booklet–Lace Love. Most of my readers are interested in craft-related (knitting, crochet, and general DIY) products and blogs. If you have a blog or product and are seeking new readership/customers, please consider an ad on the Goodknits blog! Currently, all sponsors will have the same size ad and they will be rotated mid-month.
Space is limited, so if you are interested, please send me an email- lisa@goodknits.com If this trial goes well, perhaps we can expand this opportunity to include smaller and larger ads with different features for the blog. If it doesn’t, then I promise to never ask again. ;) Thank you so much for reading. Happy Wednesday!
My oldest son’s great grandmother crocheted a blanket for him while I was pregnant. The entire thing is just one stitch and the border is a simple 5 rows of single crochet. It’s gloriously simple and oh so beautiful. When I finally learned to crochet, I knew I’d want to make a blanket just like it. I didn’t have the pattern and great Grandma said she crocheted it from memory–it was her go to stitch pattern and she would make several a year for any new babies who entered her life. I STILL wanted to make it, though. So, I just sat with it for a few minutes and counted and came up with the stitch pattern. I crocheted a giant baby blanket for my cousin’s first born back in 2007 using it (you can see it stuffed in a basket of handmade baby goodies, here), but for some reason or another, I didn’t write up the pattern to share. Yesterday, I got an email asking about it (you can see it in the background of my one-hour neckwarmer pattern) and so I decided to pull out the baby blanket and write up a proper stitch pattern. If you’re familiar with a more traditional name for it, please do let me know. It’s like a shell stitch pattern, but it’s not quite the same, hence the “offset.” Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! 
Using some worsted (aran) weight yarn and a 5.5mm hook, make a scarf or neckwarmer by chaining 28 or 32. Make a baby blanket by chaining something substantially larger, like 160. It’s surprisingly fast, once you get going. Like I said above, if you know what this stitch is called or have any other reference for it, let me know! Click here to see my other Offset Shell blankets!
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