Duck, Duck Knitting Patterns

I feel like I’m seeing ducks (and geese, which we’ll get to soon) everywhere lately, so let’s take a look at some cute duck knitting patterns.

If you want a mallard duck, we have to start with the adorable (and adorably named) Beneduck Cumberquack, which is from Knit for Victory. You can buy just the pattern or the kit, which includes DK yarn, needles, stuffing, beads and thread for the eyes, and a button badge.

The baby duck from Polushkabunny has mallard coloration, and a super cute flower on its head. This one is worked flat using sport weight yarn, and is available for free (email signup required). The pattern includes video tutorials to help with finishing.

How about a duck that’s more like a rubber duckie? J.G. Miller has the Duck Ahoy Duckie, which uses DK weight yarn and was designed as a rubber duckie to hide on a cruise. It’s available as a free download on Ravelry.

Frankie Brown’s ducks are sort of an elevated rubber duckie, because there’s a little more shaping and it has wings. It kind of looks like a pigeon to me, but maybe that’s because I now have Bert and Ernie on the brain. This one can be made in different sizes depending on the yarn weight you use, and it’s a free Ravelry download.

Or there are more realistic looking little ducklings, like this pattern from the always adorable Dot pebbles Knits. This fluffy little duck is worked flat and has minimal seaming as the pieces are joined as you knit. They actually have another version, too, both of which are super cute.

And because I find it hard to resist patterns of ducks wearing clothes, I also have to share the Duckweed Duckling pattern from Huggable Bears. These ducks are worked flat using DK weight yarn and include lots of accessory options such as hats, overalls, a little dress and umbrellas.

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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