Fall Harvest Pillow Knitting Pattern

Fall is a great time to freshen up the inside of your home with some new decor. Seasonal pillows are pretty fast projects that easily change the look of your couch.

This Fall Harvest Pillow from Yarnspirations looks complicated but it’s actually pretty easy stranded colorwork (reading a chart is required) and only five colors of Paton’s Classic Wool are used in the project.

To make it even easier, the back is solid color knitting so it will go a lot faster. You could even flip the pillow over and just show the back as the front when you don’t feel like squirrels and acorns anymore.

Download the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations.]

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Did you know that only Americans call it Fall? When English poets started using the phrase “the fall of leaves” it became popular to call the season fall. But by the mid-1800s, after the split of the colonies from England led to language change, England reverted back to Autumn and the Americans retained the name fall. But it is also known as Harvest,

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Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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