The Blue Lake is very easy to knit, and makes a great gift.
The chart is 50 sts and 36 rows, about 4 hours knit-time.

Use yarn & needles of your choice, as gauge is not crucial.
Thin-med weight yarns are the best (sock-worsted).
In general, big needles & thick yarn = big picture, and small needles and sock yarn = small picture.

The needles should match your yarn weight (see suggestion on your yarn cover).

Knitted in st.st with mixture of stranding & intarsia. Do not let these words intimidate you. Use common sense, make all possible mistakes, and fix them later (how to enclosed).
If you need any help, or not sure about anything, just contact me.

Yarns: very little yarn of each color, and if you run out – improvise!
You can substitute yarn, or change the pattern.
Do the same when you make a mistake: instead of unraveling, change the pattern (if possible) to suit what you did.
Do not hesitate to mix different kind of yarns. The yarns need to be similar in thickness/weight, but do not need to be of the same kind.

Water: self striping yarn, sparkly, or solid color yarn.
Optional: knit a band of a slightly different color in the middle.

Mountains/trees: Use 5 different yarns, or alternate colors to use what you have. Use browns, greens, or any color you like. If you run out, make the mountain shorter.

Sky: Self striping or solid. Add more rows at the top if you need, to fit better into a frame size.

Clouds: are optional too. I like using whites, but what would YOU like to do?

Pattern includes:
Love
Chart
Light written instructions to support the chart
Explanation about the difference between mounting and using a frame, to using a dowel
How to mount the pictures
Light instructions for using a dowel.

Read before you print. The instructions have a lot of full color photos. The only thing to print is the chart page.

I wish you luck, I hope you will enjoy it and make millions of them to give everybody you know.

This pattern was made possible with the gracious help of:
electronjam bon0bon mammana1 wool4willow