I’m finally finished designing and knitting my very first original knitting pattern! And to celebrate this accomplishment and Friday and Memorial Day and the beginning of summer, I’m giving it away free!
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I knit and crochet lots of baby blankets. In fact, when I started this blog back in September 2009, my very first post was about a baby blanket I crocheted for my friend Quirk. The post remains one of the most popular ones on PaintingLilies.
Since then, I made a blanket for little peanut when I lived in the Dominican Republic. I knitted a tweed baby blanket and a blanket for lil’ bit last summer. And I kept warm during my winter in Boston with a modal-ly baby blanket. It seems like my friends can’t stop having kids, so I keep on knitting.
After finishing up my last blanket in the winter, I started to think that maybe I, too could design a pattern. It couldn’t be that hard, right? So I gave it a try. I only made it 2 inches into my first design before scrapping it. I frogged a few other designs before creating the Twin Leaf Baby Blanket pattern.
The blanket is knit with an 18-stitch repeating lace pattern. I chose to knit with sport weight wool and size 3.5 needles. (Yes, it takes some time to complete!) You could adjust the gauge and use a thicker yarn and larger needles, but I like the details that you see with this gauge.
I mailed the blanket to one of my very good friends from college whose little girl is due in June. She told me her husband was thrilled to receive something that wasn’t pink.
Do you want to knit this beautiful blanket for friend or for yourself? Because I like all of you, I’m giving away the blanket for free. You have 2 (easy!) options to have the blanket in your inbox in seconds:
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(You used to be able to pay with a Facebook post, too, but the feature is currently disabled. If you prefer to share via Facebook, use the links at the bottom of this post to “like” or share via Facebook. Then email me lindsay (at) paintinglilies (dot) com and I will send you the pattern.)
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If you download the pattern, I would love to hear your feedback and see pictures of your completed projects. I proof read it carefully, but please let me know if you find any errors so I can correct them.
The project details can also be found on Ravelry.
Happy knitting!
que c’est joli le point est magnifique
la couleur superbe
j’aimerai bien faire cette couverture pour mon petit BB
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When I saw the Twin Leaf baby blanket on Ravelry, I knew it would make the perfect gift for a baby girl:) My daughter-in-law has asked me to make a baby blanket for her boss whose wife is expecting a little girl in the spring. I knew this would be the perfect pattern. I linked your facebook page to mine so that I can continue to follow you. I am shooting for a mid-April finish date and will post a picture of the finished blanket on your facebook page:)
Thanks Stephanie! I look forward to seeing your blanket.
could you please e mail the twin leaf pattern to me also, i am not able to get it either
In the pattern, it says to cast on 187 stitches, is this a typo? I mean since 18 stitch repeated 10 times is 8, and 6 for the border, where does the 7th stitch come from?
Hi Kori,
No, it’s not a typo. You’ll see that the border has 7 stitches, not 6, though some have modified it to exclude the fourth to last purl stitch.
Hope that helps!
Lindsay
Hi,
I signed up to yourwebsite but never received the pattern for twin leaf blanket. Can you sen to me please?
Thanks:)
Rae
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Hi,
I have supscriped and liked on facebook and pinned on pinterest, Can you please email me the pattern as the link i got doesnt work.
Thanks,
Rebecca
I registered and confirmed a bit ago but still no link. Can you email it? I love the blanket and hope to start it int he near future. (I’m sure you know how wips are)
Shared on Facebook, please send the pattern
thanks
Would love the pattern for this beautiful blanket. Thank you.