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Fun Knits for Thanksgiving

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I’m not much of a Thanksgiving decorator, but every time I look at the adorable fall-themed knitting patterns out there I wonder why that is. There are so many cute little turkeys, acorns, leaves and other great things for the table that it makes me want to pull out some orange and brown yarn and get stitching.

Last year I brought you a roundup of lots of great Thanksgiving knitting patterns, but I wanted to add a few new ones to the list if you’re looking for something to knit over the next couple of weeks.

This Pilgrim Bonnet is a great choice if you’re looking for a historically appropriate outfit for Thanksgiving or just need to yarnbomb a statue, as the original version from the tangle blog was made for.

Sassy Skein’s Thanksgiving Tea Towel could be for any holiday — or any day — depending on what color you made it. Her’s is a lovely orange cotton yarn with a great nubby stitch pattern perfect for drying the post-Thanksgiving meal dishes.

Elaine from Down Cloverlaine has a cute turkey bib for a little one that could easily be worked as a washcloth, just don’t do the shaping at the top.

Also make sure you check out the Thanksgiving knitting patterns roundup from Stitch and Unwind (love the little pumpkin napkin rings!) for some more great ideas.

Do you knit for Thanksgiving? I’d love to hear what you’ve made in the past or what you’re working on this year.

Looking for more Thanksgiving patterns check these out on Etsy.

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Knit Back at AI Patterns with the AIlephant

Lots of craft designers are understandably frustrated about the proliferation of AI “designed” patterns and photos of projects that have no basis in reality. People who don’t know how to tell if a project is AI are often also frustrated when they see a picture for something but there’s no pattern because it’s not real, or they buy a pattern that doesn’t actually explain how to make the thing or ends up looking totally different from the picture. 

Some designers have taken it upon themselves to try to make some of those AI patterns that we see online, often with hilarious results. 

Katherine Foster was inspired by a famous AI elephant to make what she calls “AIlephant,” which is now a free knitting pattern on Ravelry. 

Her prototype uses worsted weight yarn, but you can use whatever yarn you like to make different sizes of elephants. 

The elephant features a cable running down the trunk and a different cable pattern on the back. It’s worked in pieces that are joined and stuffed as you go. It uses German short row shaping on the body and includes written instructions as well as a chart for the cable patterns. 

Reading through the pattern, it sounds a little fiddly, which makes sense because it was designed to look like a pattern that isn’t real. But it’s doable, as evidenced by the handful of projects you can find on Ravelry. The ears on her version aren’t quite as big and round or maybe don’t sit in quite the same place as the AI version (which if you haven’t seen it there’s a photo of that on the projects page, too). But it’s a pretty honest replica of a dishonest photo, and a really cute elephant in its own right. 

If you make this one I would love to hear about it!

You can grab the free pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katherine Foster]