Holiday Garland Knitting Patterns

This is a post that was inspired by something I found when I was looking for something else.

I found this adorable Christmas tree light knit garland from Just Janine Treasures on Etsy and I knew I had to share it. This would be a fun way to use all the leftovers from your projects through the year, or stitch it up in rainbow colors as shown. These use DK weight yarn, but you can use different weights as you like to make different sizes of bulbs.

Seeing this fun project prompted to look for other holiday garland knitting patterns, so let’s check them out!

This one wouldn’t have to be a garland, but I love the Santa’s laundry line pattern from Eleonore von Castelmur, which is free to download on Ravelry. It uses superfine yarn and includes a little coat, longjohns, hat, mittens, pants, socks, scarf and boots. Knit the whole set or just a few pieces as you like.

This pretty holly knitting pattern would be cute as a garland or a decoration on the table. Or turn them into napkin rings? I’m sure you’ll come up with lots of uses for them. The pattern is from By Ladyship Designs on Etsy, and it looks like these were made with worsted weight yarn, but you can use whatever you have.

Frankie Brown’s Advent Calendar pattern has a great collection of little Christmas patterns, including little ornaments, Santa, a snowman and more. Knit one a day to get ready for the holiday or make a garland with repeating patterns as you like. The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

Emily Ivey’s Smitten is meant to be an advent calendar, but you can stitch it up now to use as decoration and have it ready for next year. This will definitely use a bunch of your worsted weight leftovers as you stitch up 24 mittens (or however many you want). Get the pattern for free on Ravelry.

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Brioche knitting, also sometimes known as English rib, is a popular way to add a lot of texture to knitting projects. It can be a little intimidating when you’ve never done it before, but once you get the technique down it’s lots of fun to do. And it creates the squishiest, warmest fabric, so it’s great for fall and winter accessories like these.

Mirella Moments has a whole collection of English rib knitting patterns, including the hat pictured here, a headband and an infinity scarf.

These would be super as gifts to knit now and have on hand for the holidays. You can knit all three and give them to three different people, or gift them all to one person, or keep them for yourself. No one is judging here.

All of the projects use worsted weight yarn but they come out looking chunky because of the knitting technique, which involves yarn overs that are worked together with the next stitch on the next round so there’s not a visible hole, it just makes the fabric really stretchy.

You can practice working the stitch flat if you like, but it’s not any more difficult to do in the round. If you’ve never done it before you might want to start with the headband pattern here before moving on to a bigger project.

The hat and the headband both come in three sizes for adults (the small would probably work for a teen) and the infinity scarf is one size but you could adjust it to be bigger or smaller if you like.

These projects are so pretty and relatively easy to do, too, even if you’ve never worked brioche before.

You can find all the patterns, complete with photo tutorials, at Mirella Moments: hat | headband | infinity scarf.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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