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.

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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