Browns Blanket

Well, I've done it again: I've made another blanket!  I was commissioned to make this one as a Christmas gift for a fan of the Cleveland Browns.  This absolutely gorgeous blanket reminded me why I like stitch 1 so much.  The final look of this stitch is still one of my favorites, but it's not as quick as I remembered.  Compared to some of the other stitches, that grow at the speed of dc, this is slow because it's only every other row that really adds to the height. 

The color pattern I used is 1 row of orange, 2 rows of brown, then (2 rows of orange, 2 rows of brown) repeated, ending with a single row of orange, and a brown border.

Here's the pattern:
Chain 154, then work stitch 1 until satisfied with the length. 
Add this border to complete it:

Round 1: sc around, 3 sc in corner
Round 2: dc around, 5 dc in corner
Round 3: sc around, 3 sc in corner
Round 4: (dc, ch 1, sk 1) around, (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc) in corner
Round 5: sc around, 3 sc in corner
Round 6: dc around, 5 dc in corner
Round 7: sc around, 3 sc in corner

I made this from I Love this Yarn in Orange and Brown with a J hook.