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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When I first started knitting again after a long absence from the craft (which has now been almost 25 years ago!) I really didn’t like garter stitch that much. I found it super boring, somehow even more boring than knitting stockinette stitch in the round, even though it’s exactly the same thing.

Over the years I’ve softened my opinion, and even grown to like garter stitch. There’s nothing wrong with being plain, and actually the texture of garter stitch is more interesting than stockinette.

Also there are fun things you can do with garter stitch to make it more interesting if you want to, such as adding stripes, working on the bias, or doing fun effects to change the look.

That’s the way with the Bernat Twist My Way Garter Knit Blanket. Using combinations of casting on and binding off creates what they call a Swiss cheese effect along two sides of the blanket. This is a lot of fun in the self-striping ombre yarn they chose for the pattern, but it would also be fun in a solid color or making your own stripes.

Despite the dramatic effect, this pattern is rated easy. It’s worked from side to side (if you consider the “cheesy” edges the top and bottom) and has an eight-row repeat that involves binding off and then casting on again to make the holes. They’re kind of like giant buttonholes.

Once you get the hang of it it’s a pretty easy repeat to remember, and it will be smooth knitting as big as you want to make it.

You can download this pattern from the Yarnspirations website for free, or you can buy a kit direct from them that includes the yarn you need (and knitting needles if you need those, too). Bernat Sport Ombre Twist, which is what is used in the pattern, comes in 12 self patterning colors and is a DK weight acrylic yarn.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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