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Cat Knitting Patterns

July 31, 2024 by Sarah White

I almost titled this “knitting patterns for cats” but the projects shared here make cats, they aren’t strictly for your cats. Unless you turn them into cat toys, which is entirely your business.

If you have a tiny bit of DK weight yarn (though of course you can use other weights to make other sizes) and a few minutes to spare you can make a mini cat with this free pattern from Ravelry. Designed by a person cleverly named A knitter, this pattern takes about 20 yards or 18 meters of yarn, and you can make them any color you like. It calls for tiny doll eyes, but you can embroider the eyes just like you do the whiskers if you want.

The tiny car in a life preserver pattern from Anna Hrachovec is another cute and quick pattern that would be great to stitch up as a gift for the cat lover in your life. It’s made with 20-30 yards (18-27 meters) of fingering weight yarn, and of course you could knit the kitty without the life preserver but I don’t know why you’d want to resist its cuteness. You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

Getting a little bigger but still very cute in a different way, we have these pocket buddies from French Lavender Home on Etsy. The pattern uses worsted weight yarn and you can change up the colors and details to make them look like cats, dogs, foxes, bears… They’re worked flat and the little sweaters are part of the body, but there’s also an optional hat that’s worked separately. This is a great little skill building project because it includes duplicate stitch, stranded knitting and cables, depending on how you style the sweaters.

Gathered has an adorable cat knitting pattern that includes a little pair of overalls. There are different coloring options so you can make one to match your pet, or just use the yarn you have on hand. It calls for DK weight yarn and was designed by Sophie Jordan for Simply Knitting magazine.

Ginger and Smudge are sweet pudgy cats designed by Fluff and Fuzz. They’re shown striped but you could make them solid if you prefer, or add some duplicate stitch to the face to match your feline friend. These are worked with DK weight yarn and stitches flat for ease of knitting.

If you’re looking for the purr-fect knit cat, though, it might be these from Dot Pebbles. They’re worked with mohair blend yarns for the pettable fuzz factor, and they’re worked flat but joined as you go to make an interesting knit. And who can resist those little faces?

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Comments

  1. Dot says

    August 10, 2024 at 11:01 am

    The link to Fluff and Fuzz goes to the cat buddies site.

  2. Sarah White says

    August 12, 2024 at 8:29 pm

    Sorry about that; all fixed now!

Have you read?

Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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