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Free Easter Basket Knitting Patterns

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We’re getting pretty close to Easter but there’s still time to add a handmade touch to your festivities. Easter baskets are pretty easy projects to stitch up and they add an extra level of cuteness to your egg hunt or your table decor. Here are a handful of great, cute and quick to knit free Easter basket knitting patterns for you to try.

Gina Michele made a little basket that looks like a chick. Worked flat in Garter Stitch in bulky yarn, this is a super quick project that would be great to hold candy inside a larger basket or as table decor.

Kaity Frakerhas a cute, simple basket worked in DK weight yarn that you can grab from Ravelry. It’s worked in the round from the base up, with an I-cord handle that’s sewn on after knitting. There’s also a pattern for an Easter egg with the basket pattern.

If you’re looking for a teensy Easter basket knitting pattern, check out this one from Marianna’s Lazy Daisy Days. This one is worked flat from the top down with the handle stitched separately. It’s perfect for holding a handful of candy eggs.

Making a felted basket is a great way to get a good sized basket quickly because they tend to be worked at a loose gauge. This one from Ann Lim is worked in bulky yarn and uses size 10.5 US knitting needles, and the handle is integrated into the bag so there’s no finishing other than the felting. This patter is a free download on Ravelry.

These last ones aren’t strictly Easter baskets, but they could be if you made them a little deeper and added a handle, or they can be used to display eggs, fruit or other holiday decor on the table. This one from DROPS Design is worked in Garter Stitch with two strands of yarn held together, then felted for extra strength. And this one by Clare Doornbos (a free Ravelry download) is worked in bulky yarn, also in garter stitch, and is the perfect introduction to short rows for people who haven’t stitched them before.

Check out this White fluffy Easter Chick knitting pattern over on our Sister site Craftbits.com Fluffy Easter Chick Knitting Pattern. and this Knitted Bunny Pattern.

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!