Can’t Manage a Big Sweater? Try These Tiny Ones from Vogue Knitting

I’ve gotten a bit off track with talking about sweater knitting this month, but I thought it would be cute to share these little bitty sweaters I saw on Facebook the other day.

The pattern is from Vogue Knitting, and it’s a free download but you have to register first. These are actually done as a little garland, which would be adorable, say, hanging in front of my office window (or, longer, on a little holiday tree) but you could absolutely knit each one and keep them separate to use as ornaments or gift tags (especially if you’re kind of enough to be knitting someone a sweater as a holiday gift).

These are great little projects to use up your odd balls, and they’re rated easy but will give you some practice with skills like stripes and teensy cables.

Looking for more wee clothes for the tree? I have a wee striped vest over at About that you could easily add sleeves to if you like. (The tiny stocking is pretty darn cute, too, though not technically clothing.)

Have you knit any tiny clothes to use for holiday decorations? I’d love to hear about them.

[Photo via Vogue Knitting.]

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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