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Giveaway: Win a $25 Shell Gas Card for Your Holiday Travel!

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If your friends and family are scattered across the country, the holidays can get awfully expensive! To help make it easier for you to celebrate, Craft Gossip is teaming up with Shell to offer a free $25 gas card to one lucky reader. This giveaway is part of an effort to promote Shell’s Fuel Rewards Network, which is a great customer loyalty program that lets you earn Fuel Rewards savings in several different ways and then redeem them for cheaper gas.

Here’s how you get savings:

  • Dine out one of the 10,000 participating restaurants, you can earn 10 cents off per gallon for every $50 spent
  • Shop through their online mall at more than 700 merchants and earn 5 cents off per gallon for every $50 spent
  • Earn additional bonuses for every grocery or dining purchase that is made with a linked MasterCard
  • Link grocery rewards cards to your account and use e-coupons that offer Fuel Rewards in addition to their regular savings

When you want to redeem your Fuel Rewards, you insert your card into the pump or hand it to the cashier before you buy your gas. You can then buy up to 20 gallons of fuel at the reduced price.

Visit the Shell Fuel Rewards Network website to sign up for this free program or to search for a Shell station near you.

When you’re done signing up, leave a comment telling me about your holiday travel plans. You have until 5PM CST on November 14 to comment. I’ll announce a randomly selected winner on November 15.

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UPDATE: Random.org helped me select commenter #14 as our lucky winner. Thank you to all those who entered!

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Textured Hat Knitting Patterns

There are all sorts of knitting techniques you can use on hats, but some of my favorites are textured stitch patterns or cabled hats worked in a single color. Check out these great textured hat knitting patterns and find your next fall favorite. 

The K?pekapeka hat from The Practice of Fibre was the one that got me started thinking about textured hat knitting patterns. This one has a simple zig-zag pattern worked with purls. This hat uses centered double decreases for shaping to help keep the pattern going as you finish the top of the hat. It uses worked weight yarn. 

Little Totz Designs has this simple knit hat that uses worsted weight yarn and an allover knit-purl stitch pattern that’s easy to memorize. This one would be a great first hat in the round pattern if that’s something you haven’t tried before. 

The Fia Beanie from Honey and Grace Fiber Co is another simple stitch pattern that’s full of texture. It calls for bulky yarn so it should stitch up in no time in this great textured diamond design. 

Kalurah Hudson’s Cindersmoke hat is an interesting stitch design that uses double moss stitch and bands of slipped stitches throughout the pattern, which is where the decreases are worked, keeping the rest of the pattern as established. It uses bulky yarn and is sized for adults, and you can find it on Ravelry.

Benjamin Matthews has such pretty designs that often turn out to be simpler to knit than they look. The Snow Carved Beanie (find it on Ravelry) for example only uses knits, purls and slipped stitches, but it has a design that looks almost like cables. The pattern uses worsted weight yarn and has a foldover brim for extra warmth. 

While I wanted to keep the focus in this roundup on simple stitch patterns, basic cables are not that much more difficult than regular knitting, and the lattice pattern on this CrissCross Hat form the Purling Princess is so charming I couldn’t resist sharing. This hat comes in three sizes (baby, child and adult) and uses worsted weight yarn. It would be a great gift to knit if you’re thinking about that.