A Duo of Easy Knit Shawls

If you’re still looking for something to knit for a quick holiday gift, I’ve got a couple of ideas for you that have hit my inbox recently.

The Simple Shawlette from Cascade Yarns (that’s a link to a PDF, by the way) has a simple eyelet pattern and can be worked using between one and three skeins of Cascade 220, depending on what you have on hand and how much time you have to knit it!

Knitting Fever’s Painted Desert Lace Shawl (that’s a PDF, too) is another simple triangular shawl decorated with eyelets. This one will take you a little longer because its sock yarn (one skein of Painted Desert by Knitting Fever, naturally) but the multicolored yarn makes this one super-pretty, too. (And you could use whatever sock yarn you have lying around that you don’t want to turn in to socks.)

Are you still doing holiday knitting? I knit about a million mitts over the weekend, which I will tell you more about soon.

[Large photo via Knitting Fever; small photo via Cascade Yarns.]

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Why should the fireplace get all the fun? Instead of knitting stockings this year, why not whip up a pair of Christmas themed socks? These Christmas sock knitting patterns are lots of fun to make and you can wear them to holiday gatherings for years to come.

For our friends in the southern part of the world, there are the Christmas in July socks from the Kiwi Lodge – Kylie (Ravelry link). These shorty socks are covered in Christmas trees and have bright pink heels and toes for a tropical feel. There’s also an option to make a longer sock if you celebrate somewhere it’s colder.

Twin Stitches Designs (Ravelry) has a fun pattern with mix and match colorwork motifs you can use to build your own cozy Christmas socks. From the sample socks I see Christmas puddings, trucks hauling trees, Santa belts, ornaments and a couple of different borders. There may be more patterns included but the listing doesn’t say. Make a pair that matches or use different motifs on each foot for extra holiday cheer.

If you want to stick to Christmas puddings on your holiday socks, check out this cute pattern from Stone Knits. These lovely socks feature a band of puddings around the leg and a bit of holly by the toes.

These vintage holiday light socks from Grey Owl Knits by Sarah are classic looking and lots of fun at the same time. I love this color combination but of course you can make your lights and stripes whatever colors you like or have on hand. They’re worked using stranded knitting.

And if you’d like even more of a mix of patterns for your socks, try Barbara Ceglédi’s Christmas Chaos socks, a free pattern on Ravelry. The pattern includes 25 little motifs you can choose from, ranging from snowflakes and Christmas trees to elf hats, reindeer and hearts.

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