Freebie Friday!

Here's a simple pattern I want to share. I intend for this to be a dog blanket, but it can also be a small baby blanket. It's nothing fancy, and I don't claim to have made up the pattern - it's more like a little recipe I whipped up, which I'm sure has been done before. In any case, here goes:

Chunky Dog Blanket
Materials:
Yarn: Marble Chunky (Bulky/12 ply)
Needles: Size 11 circulars
3 stitch markers
Abbreviations:
pm = place marker
sm = slip marker

Directions:
Cast on 60 stitches
Knit 5 rows in garter stitch (knit every row)
K 5, pm, K 25, pm, P 25, pm, K 5
K 5, sm, K 25, sm, P 25, sm, k 5
     Repeat this row for 30 rows or whatever gets you a square
K 5, sm, P 25, sm, K to end (25 st, plus 5 border sts)
     Repeat for 30 rows or whatever gets you a square
Knit 5 rows
Bind off in garter st
Block and give. Or keep. That's it!

Cast on:

Freebie Friday!

Hello world! It's Friday, and I wrote up a pattern, and I'm putting it up here for free, FREE I say! Here's a quick pattern for the birdies that I talked about here. Maybe you'd like to make yourself a little birdie? Click here to download the entire pattern, or read on...

 This is the first real pattern I've ever written up so please let me know if you find any mistakes. Thanks!