Fun Knits for Thanksgiving

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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I don’t even know what to say about this amazing knitting pattern. The Bestiary Scarf from Monstra & Mirabilia is so full of details it’s a little intimidating to talk about.

It features, as the designer describes it, an “artistic encyclopaedia of Western mythical creatures.”

The pattern includes a dragon, harpy, Medusa, chimaera, centauress, phoneix, kraken, mermaid, sew serpent, cyclops, wyvern, Pegasus, amphiptere and amphibaena. (It’s a good thing there’s a photo of the proejct with everything labelled because I definitely didn’t know the names for everything.) It’s also designed like a landscape, with water and land creatures toward the bottom ends and sky creatures toward the top.

The dragon is at the center and is worked sideways so it will show as upright when you wear it.

The scarf is worked in double knitting, so the colorwork appears in the opposite colors on the other side.

It’s worked in light fingering weight yarn (on size 0 US or 2mm knitting needles) and the colorwork is shown in charts. The pattern also includes some video tutorials and written instructions to help you along. The designer says the pattern is for intermediate knitters, and “advanced beginners may succeed with patience and the help of the video tutorials.”

When I was an advanced beginner this kind of a pattern would have brought me to tears, but if you love a challenge, and a project that you’ll wear and get tons of astonished reactions every time, this is the project for you. And of course if you have a few double knitting projects under your belt and are comfortable reading charts, this project shouldn’t be hard, but that doesn’t mean it’s fast. But lots of great things take time, and that’s never stopped us before, right?

You can get a copy of this pattern from Monstra & Mirabilia on Ravelry.

[Photo: Monstra & Mirabilia ]

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