Flying Fox Shawl Knitting for a Cause

The beautiful Flying Fox Shawl was designed by Ukrainian designer Olga Gotham and is available for purchase as a standalone pattern or a kit from Lion Brand Yarn.

The company has announced that through April 8, 2022, all sales of the pattern and a portion of sales from the yarn will go to Nova Ukraine, a nonprofit helping with humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

They have a special kit using blue and yellow yarn, but you can choose whatever colors you like and know that you are supporting a great cause.

Check out the pattern and kit at Lion Brand.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn.]

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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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Violet says
April 5, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Something seems off in the pattern- I have started it a number of times but the numbers in the early rows don’t work. What am I doing wrong?
Chotard says
January 2, 2023 at 9:00 am
I have a problem too. I have knitted two of these shawls and they are beautiful and I love them. But there is a serious problem with the lace knit section at the center where the increase comes. I have just used my imagination to make it work but it is clearly an error in the pattern.

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