Use Yarn Scraps to Make Cute Wreath Ornaments

Even if you aren’t knitting gifts for everyone on your list (and I’m here to tell you that way lies craziness) it’s still fun to give a little homemade something with your gifts. Whether it’s making candied pecans or your favorite fudge, giving everyone a knit washcloth with a friend’s handmade soap, or making ornaments to decorate gift bags, making a little something to give your friends shows you care more than just getting everything from the store.

These little yarn-wrapped mason jar lid ornaments are a sweet addition to a gift or a way to decorate a gift bag with something that becomes part of the gift.

Domestically Blissful made hers a bunch of different ways with lots of tiny embellishments. Some of them just have yarn wrapped and glued down, while she made one with finger-knit fabric. You could also knit a little long skinny rectangle and sew it around the jar lid if you wanted.

Or try my version, which is like knitting I-cord around a plastic ring. It’s a little fiddly at first but also kind of fun and you can make a stack of ornaments in an afternoon.

Do you craft with yarn to make Christmas tree ornaments? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Blissfully Domestic.]

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As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

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