A Couple of Tasty Knitting Patterns

Sometimes I feel like crochet beats knitting in terms of whimsy. I know there are plenty of fun and funky knitting patterns with all sorts of subjects, but it just feels like there are so many more options for fun stuff in the category of crochet amigurumi as opposed to knitting.

But every now and then I’ll come across some fun patterns (or make something myself!) that reminds me that knitting can be just as much fun and as silly as crochet is.

Before you go on check out our roundup of cross stitch patterns to celebrate women’s history month.

Case in point: these knit food pillows from Lion Brand Yarn.

First I saw the pretzel pillow knitting pattern, which is a super cute and easy project, worked in bulky weight yarn in the round. It’s just a giant tube, so it’s great practice for working in the round if you need that, and then you twist it, sew it into a pretzel shape and embellish it with beads for the salt. So cute!

Then I noticed there was also a pattern for a macaron pillow (not to be confused with a macaroon pillow), which would be so cute in a girl’s room since these treats are often pastel colors. This design is also made with bulky weight yarn, and while this one is also rated easy there’s more going on in the knitting. Because the pattern is worked in one piece, you’re starting from the center of one side of the cookie, increasing to the desired size, working a bit without increasing for the filling, then you decrease back down on the other side to make the second cookie. Once the cookie is knit, you work the filling as I-cord and then sew it in place.

These fun pillows are almost good enough to eat and would be fun for a dorm room, play room or TV room as well as a kid’s room. Or make one for your pretzel-loving pal.

Both are free downloads from Lion Brand Yarn that you can access at the links above.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn]

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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