VALENTINES knitting: Beginner dishcloth or Blanket block

January is a month for planning Valentine’s crafts. And here’s my first one! Is a dishcloth or blanket block with some hearts in it, beginner level, and “52 Square Pickup”-sized 🙂 So, feel free to add it to your blanket if you still working on that. You could also adapt the pattern to make some placemats, or even a scarf (ask me if you need help!). I’m planning on making a baby blanket with this pattern for my Etsy shop as soon as I can.

PS: I think I spent more time untangling my ceropegia for the photo than knitting this square. Those leaves love to hug each other!

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THE ENTIRE PATTERN (written and charted) IS BELOW.

ABBREVIATIONS

• CO: cast on
• RS: right side
• WS: wrong side
• st: stitch
• k: knit
• p: purl

INSTRUCTIONS

– CO 43 sts with US 7 (4.5 mm) needles.

I always cast on and bind off stitches with larger needles than I use for the main work. This prevent my cast on and bind off rows from being too tight.

– With US 6 (4 mm) needles, knit 4 rows.

Slip first stitch on every row as if you were to knit it, but without knitting it (except on the first row). It will form a neat and sturdy border.

– Continue working as follows:

4 garter sts, VALENTINES Stitch pattern over 35 sts, 4 garter sts​ until you have a total length of 8’’ (20.5 cm).

Knit 1 time the VALENTINES Stitch pattern complete + rows 1) to 23) again.

– Knit 4 rows.

– Bind off with US 7 (4.5 mm) needle. Cut yarn and weave in ends.

STITCH GLOSSARY

Garter Stitch

k all sts, all rows.

VALENTINES knitting pattern

(Over a multiple of 16 sts. I added 3 more sts to reach our needed 35.)

Repeat instructions between brackets as many times as needed. For this block, make them a total of 2 times.

Row 1) (RS) k all sts

Row 2) p all sts

Row 3) k all sts

Row 4) p3, [p7, k1, p8]

Row 5) k all sts

Row 6) p3, [p6, k3, p7]

Row 7) k all sts

Row 8) p3, [p4, k7, p5]

Row 9) k all sts

Row 10) p3, [p3, k9, p4]

Row 11) k all sts

Row 12) p3, [p2, k11, p3]

Row 13) k all sts

Row 14) p3, [p2, k5, p1, k5, p3]

Row 15) k all sts

Row 16) p3, [p3, k3, p3, k3, p4]

Row 17) k all sts

Row 18) p all sts

Row 19) k all sts

Row 20) p2, k1, [p15, k1]

Row 21) k all sts

Row 22) p1, k2, [k1, p13, k2]

Row 23) k all sts

Row 24) k3, [k3, p9, k4]

Row 25) k all sts

Row 26) k3, [k4, p7, k5]

Row 27) k all sts

Row 28) k3, [k5, p5, k6]

Row 29) k all sts

Row 30) k2, p1, [k5, p5, k5, p1]

Row 31) k all sts

Row 32) k1, p2, [p1, k3, p7, k3, p2]

VALENTINES knitting pattern (52SP sized) – CHART

• Read all odd rows from right to left, and all even rows from left to right.
• Repeat the grey painted part as many times as the pattern calls for (2 times horizontally in the case of this block).

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