Decorate Your Home with Spring Flowers

In the past I have shared with you a lot of ideas for knit flowers, and I thought it might be fun this year to look at patterns that include flowers that you can use all over the home.

OK, the flowers on this one are technically crocheted. But the pillow itself — from Better Homes and Gardens — is knit, and it’s really just too lovely to pass up. The crochet involved is simple, or choose a knit flower to add to the pillow instead.

This knit floral tea cosy from Justjen Knits and Stitches is so adorable I want to knit it even though I don’t ever use tea cozies. It looks like a knit garden, complete with little insect buttons for extra cuteness. She has another version that is just done with flowers that would be a great stash-buster, too.

Whimsical Knitting Designs has a nice flower-shaped washcloth, and the semi-famous almost-lost washcloth by Simply Notable has a bit of a flower shape as well.

Lorna Miser has designer a pretty flower pillow that’s offered as a free pattern from Brown Sheep; I know a little girl who would love this one!

And for slightly more whimsical choices, check out Frankie Brown’s posy flower ball and the flowering cactus pattern from Alice Buerkle (it’s actually a TP cover!).

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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