Get Cozy with This Colorful Shawl Knitting Pattern

I know cozy is a word that we typically use to mean the feeling of wearing our favorite sweater or sitting and knitting in front of a fire. But the act of knitting can be cozy, too, when we’re in the groove or feeling confident in our skills, even when a project isn’t totally simple.

The Harvest Hues shawl from Tamy Gore is, I think, both kinds of cozy. It’s a top down shawl worked in three colors and it has lots of interesting bits for you. We’re talking two-color brioche, some easy eyelets, a bit of colorwork and some stripes.

None of it is super difficult, especially if you’ve done two-color brioche before, but it is satisfying, a way to use your skills without being overwhelming. You know, cozy.

And of course there’s nothing squishier than brioche knitting, especially in worsted weight yarn, which just ups the fluff factor. This is also a good sized triangle so it’ll be great to wrap yourself in warmth when the cold days come back (or if you live somewhere it’s cold right now, whichever).

(Side note: the yarn the designer used in her sample is a combination merino and Devon Zwartbles, which sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss, so I had to look it up. Turns out the Devon Zwartbles sheep is originally from the Netherlands, and it’s a brown sheep with a white blaze on its forehead and two white socks on their back legs, plus a little white on the end of their tails. It produces a “voluminous, bouncy yarn, according to John Arbon Textiles, which made the yarn. So now you know that, too.)

The pattern uses worsted weight yarn in three colors, and calls for a size 7 US or 4.5 mm circular knitting needle to accommodate all the stitches. You can download the pattern from Ravelry.

[Photo: Tamy Gore.]

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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