Basket Knitting Patterns to Help with Spring Cleaning

Want a legitimate excuse to do more crafting instead of cleaning? Knit up some baskets to help you with your spring organization tasks, and as a bonus you’ll have less yarn you need to store!

This simple garter stitch basket from DW Crochet Patterns has a great graphic look that would be fun in any room. It’s worked with two strands of chunky weight yarn held together, which adds structure and allows you to use a lot of odd balls if you don’t want a cohesive color (and I fr one love scrappy baskets!).

Prefer the look of stockinette stitch? This knit basket pattern from A Box of Twine looks like a knit hat turned upside down, with ribbing at the top edge to keep the basket from curling in on itself. This is a slouchier looking project than that first one, but still really cute and would look great with a stripe. This one also uses chunky yarn and comes in two sizes.

Speaking of stripes, this basket from Peony Knits includes contrasting stripes for extra fun, and it has the option of working I-cord handles to make the basket even more functional. Or make a single handle across the middle and use it as an Easter basket.

The Pretty Utility Basket from Knit And Crochet EvrAft is worked in stockinette stitch and calls for three shades of worsted weight yarn to make an ombre fade effect. You can already hear me saying you could do this with odd balls and do the fade more often if you wanted, can’t you? Because I am.

I love the look of hanging baskets but I haven’t made any yet because I don’t know where in my house they might be safe from my yarn-loving cat trying to knock them down and carry them around the house in her mouth. If you don’t have such worries, this version from Sealed by a Kris is cute and easy to work. The wooden loop for hanging adds stability and they use super bulky yarn. It looks like mistake rib, but I’m not 100 percent sure.

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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