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Free Pattern: Adorable Pine Trees with Cork Bases

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cabled pine trees simply notableIf you’re still looking for a few cute ways to spruce up your house for the holidays, I’ve got you covered. Keep checking back this week for quick gift ideas, holiday decor, a fun giveaway or two and probably some tidbits from the fiber festival I went to over the weekend!

For starters there’s this pattern for super cute cabled pine trees placed on cork bases from Simply Notable. It’s a really easy pattern (two patterns, actually) that are great if you’re new to cables and want to get your feet wet quickly. Whatever your skill level these will work up fast and you’ll soon have a whole little forest to put on your table, mantel or bookshelf. It’s a great stash buster, too, if you’re like me and have a ton of green yarn!

[Photo via Simply Notable.]

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  5. THe link to the cables trees goes straight to a guitar lesson. I’d love to see a pattern for the cabled knitted trees if anyone has gotten to one! Thanks!

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A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

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]