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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Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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