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Candy Corn Themed Knitting Patterns

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I don’t really even like eating candy corn, but I’ve had it on the brain lately since I’ve been working on a really fun project I’ll share with you soon. Candy corn is a great motif for knitting because it’s so graphic, and you can use the shape, the colors or both and everyone knows what you’re trying to express.

Here’s a collection of great projects inspired by candy corn.

These candy corn earrings from Zombies, Knitting and Time Well Wasted can be knit in almost no time when you need something cute to wear to a Halloween party or any other time during the fall.

Jane Mack has designed candy corn colored socks and booties and a hat, both of which are available as Ravelry downloads.

Speaking of baby gear, this baby cocoon and coordinating cap from Red Heart would be a perfect first Halloween costume for a new little one.

The candy corn illusion dishcloth by Rhonda K. White is a fun way to play with that technique.

Kristin M. Roach’s candy corn creature would make fun table decor or a little gift for your pumpkin. And these little candy corns from the Purl Bee are so cute I’ll bet you can’t knit just one. For a super-tiny version, check out the ones from Mochimochi Land.

The candy corn mittens from Justine Birmingham are a great addition to a costume if you live somewhere that’s cold come Halloween. (Ravelry download)

Craftown has a fun candy corn kitchen towel to knit, and Sarah Sagaser’s candy corn hat is a classic you can size up or down for the whole family. (Ravelry)

And I have a cute little candy corn goody bag over at About that you can use for a little treat for your kid, or make a bunch for a holiday party.

Looking for more Candy Corn Knitting Patterns? Check these out on Etsy 

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Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

[Photo: Olive Knits.]

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