Easy Little Pride Flag Knitting Patterns

We’re coming up on the end of Pride month, but Pride is every day, all the time, and crafting for Pride doesn’t have to be limited to a particular month of the calendar.

Knit Picks recently released on its Instagram page a collection of little Pride flags, with all the instructions and color charts to make a bunch of different offerings. You can use this design to make the traditional rainbow striped flag, of course, but there’s also a chart for the Progress flag.

There are also charts for the demiromantic/demisexual flag and the intersex flag. Other flags just have stripes but the pattern shows the layout for a variety of flags, including:

lesbian
gay men
bisexual
trans
pansexual
nonbinary
aromantic
agender
asexual

The pattern for the flags is included in the post. Each flag is just 24 stitches wide, so you can make one or a bunch in no time. It suggests using Knit Picks Palette yarn held double, or you can use a DK or worsted weight yarn. Whatever you have in the right colors will work.

The original pattern uses size 6 US (4mm) knitting needles, but you can adjust as needed for the particular yarn you are using. This of course may alter the size of your finished flag, but bigger and smaller flags are cute, too. (As written the flag should come out to about 4.5 by 3.5 inches, but gauge isn’t critical.)

Looking for more knits to show your pride? Check out my collection of rainbow knitting patterns that are great for Pride or any other time of year. (Actually I did one last year, too, so check out even more rainbow patterns here.)

Thanks, Knit Picks, for being awesome all year long and providing yarn in a rainbow of colors for all our stitching needs.

[Photo: Knit Picks, via Instagram]

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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