A New Crop of Christmas Ornament Knitting Patterns

It feels like every year I do a roundup of Christmas ornament knitting patterns (here’s the one from last year, and one from 2022 if you need more ideas) and why not? These cute little projects are fun to knit, generally pretty fast, you can use your scrap yarn from other projects and they make great little gifts for secret Santa or to decorate a gift bag. I’m sticking to newer patterns in Ravelry (and a few from Etsy, too) in the hope that these won’t be repeats, so let’s see what’s new!

Rebecca Roberts (Ravelry link) has a set of cute robins in different holiday costumes that you can knit for your tree. They include a Santa and Mrs. Claus/Mother Christmas, an elf and a snowman. Each bird is about 9 cm/3.5 inches tall, and the pattern description doesn’t say what kind of yarn is used but I think it’s super fine/fingering from the look of things.

Use your scraps of worsted weight yarn to make these little stockings designed by Nancy Ekvall for Blue Sky Fibers. They come out to 3 by 3.5 inches (or about 7.5 by 9 cm) and would be super cute as individual ornaments or a garland using up all your odd balls. The pattern is a free download on Ravelry.

Huggable Bears on Etsy has a cute pattern set that’s meant to be keychain buddies but you could make them ornaments as well. The set includes a snowman, Santa, reindeer, penguin and gingerbread man, all of which are worked flat and sewn together. Each character is about 4.5 inches or 11 cm tall, and they use DK weight yarn.

If you’re new to cable knitting or just like the look of cables (I think cables are a perfect winter technique; they just look cozy!) try this little ball ornament form Juliette Pecaut Design. It uses super bulky yarn, and the same simple cable pattern is also used in a coordinating stocking and tree skirt if you want your whole room to match.

There’s no place like home for the holidays, so why not stitch up an ornament that looks like a house? These tiny house ornaments from Gray Bear Akswokrat use two colors and are worked flat. They come out to 5 by 3 cm, or about 2 by 1 inch.

If you want a bitter house option, try the House Green Christmas design from Twins Design. This one is also worked flat but has the addition of lots of glowing windows to make it more festive. You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

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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