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Fun Star Knitting Patterns

February 21, 2023 by Sarah White

I happened to look at the top search terms on the site the other day and saw that one of the top ones was looking for star knitting patterns. So it seems like it’s high time to give you all a collection of star knitting patterns!

Some of these are flat to be used as coasters, appliques or ornaments, while others are stuffed to make pillows (or ornaments for the smaller ones). Check out all these fun star knitting patterns.

To start with the flat ones, the Star Coaster from Edie Eckman (via Ravelry) is a great place to start. The pattern includes video tutorials for all the skills you need. You can use worsted weight yarn to make a coaster size, or use heavier weight yarn to make larger stars you can use as a hot pad.

The star shape for knitters from Studio Knit is great as an applique you can add to a placemat, or make a bunch to make a little banner. This project is a super quick knit so you can make a bunch of them easily. There’s also a video tutorial.

The star ornament from Adella Dutra on Ravelry is another cute flat star shape. It uses super bulky yarn so you’ll finish it in no time.

OK, how about star shapes that are meant to be stuffed? These little stars are a perfect stash buster because you can make them with any weight yarn. They’re quick to knit regardless of the size and I feel like it might be hard to stop at one when you’ve stitched one up. Get the pattern from Mumpitz Design on Etsy.

This pattern from Squibblybups on Etsy has options for five- and six-pointed stars, each in three sizes. You can make starfish softies, Christmas tree toppers, pillows and more with these great patterns, which are worked partly flat and partly in the round.

Just Easy Knitting on Etsy has this fun star pillow worked in one piece. It measures almost 19 inches across from tip to tip. The project includes photo and video tutorials in case any techniques are new to you, but the designer says the pattern is suitable for new knitters.

 

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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