An Easy Heart Knitting Pattern for You

Years and years ago, before I even started writing here (and that was a LONG time ago!) I wrote the knitting page for a long-gone website called About.com. It was great fun and I wrote a lot of basic knitting patterns for that site, which are now lost to the ages (or nearly impossible to find in the depths of the Internet Archive).

I had a reader from the old days reach out to me asking about a particular pattern for a knit heart that I had posted many (MANY) years ago that she couldn’t find online any more. She noted that she liked the design of working from the bottom up and wanted to use them as sympathy gifts with an angel charm attached, as well as for other occasions.

Well I couldn’t possibly ignore such a heartfelt request, so after we dug up a very old version of the pattern from About, I decided to re-knit it and redo the instructions so that she and I and anyone else who might want to knit it could have it.

I have made so many of these hearts through the years. They use bulky yarn so they’re pretty fast to knit, and if you’re a new knitter you get some good practice working increases and decreases. I made these for teacher gifts for years, or to show appreciation to other people, and they’re just a cute little thing to make for Valentine’s Day, use as a pincushion, make a cat toy, or use a single heart as a coaster, applique, on a card…so many options.

It’s also great to make with any weight of yarn you have handy. You can hold two strands of worsted weight yarn together, add in some mohair, make stripes, whatever you want. I made a hundred versions and they’re all cute.

You can grab the pattern at Our Daily Craft. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have through the years!

A Half Dozen (Or So) Hearts to Knit

Knitting Patterns- Knit a Scarf with Hearts

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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