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Snowflake Crafts to Knit

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snowflake knitting patternsIt’s probably all the snow around here lately (on day 6 of being snowed in — hoping to get out tomorrow!) but I’ve been thinking about knitting projects involving snowflakes. I’ll share some non-Christmas patterns here soon, but here are some great ornaments and doily-type snowflakes you still have time to knit to decorate for Christmas.

Norah Gaughan has a pretty snowflake pattern that would be great to decorate a large gift box or even (worked in cotton instead of wool) as a washcloth or dishcloth.

Sharon Winsauer has a stunner of a a snowflake that’s available as a free Ravelry download.

Judy Gibson’s Snowflake Star has the airy quality of a crocheted doily and would be great as an ornament or hanging from a gift bag.

Snowflaked is a pretty pattern from Follow the Star Studio that looks pretty in multiple gauges.

Katie Himmelberg’s snowflake ornament (available as a free download from Knitting Daily) is a pretty little hexagon with crocheted edging, perfect if you want to learn either of those techniques.

Kristin Nicholas has some cute little colorful ornaments with snowflakes stitched on them. These would be great as gift tags, too.

Lion Brand has a cute ball ornament with a snowflake motif, and Frankie Brown has a cute little button-adorned snowflake as part of a knit advent calendar on Ravelry.

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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