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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Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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