Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Knitting

The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week has been emotional for a lot of people, and has increased the popularity of RBG inspired knitting projects.

In case you want to bring a little of her style and dissent to your knitting wardrobe, I thought I’d collect some options for you.

You can also check out these designs on Etsy

Carissa Browning’s Dissent Cowl is available in knit and crochet versions and on Ravlery and LoveCrafts. She’s donating 100 percent of pattern sales until Election Day to the ACLU, which has already come to more than $20,000. It costs $5 and is worked in two colors of DK weight yarn.

Looking for more knitting patterns for knitted Cardigans? Check out these Knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

Knitorious RBG by Park Williams is a fun sweater inspired by an RBG collar with fun puffy sleeves. It uses worsted weight yarn, is available in eight sizes and you can get it on Ravelry for $9.

Then there is Andrea Rangel’s Dissent Sweater, available from Ravelry in a fingering weight pullover and worsted weight cardigan option. Both are $10 and come in 11 sizes.

You can add a dissent collar to any sweater pattern with this chart (also on Ravelry) from Colleen Humphreys. It’s perfect for a circular yoke sweater or cardigan.

If you’d rather knit just the collar, try the “I Dissent” Collar from Camille K. Lewis, which uses crochet thread and uses four different sizes of knitting needles. You can find it on Ravelry for $2.

You can knit a tiny judge robe with beaded “collar” with this pattern from By Tale or History Knitting Designs. It suits an 18-inch doll and is available on Ravelry for $5. The pattern also includes a two-piece suit, shoes and stockings, and you can make a regular lac collar, too.

Make RBG in mitten form with this design from Lotta Lundin. They feature Ruth with and without her notorious crown along with “I Dissent” on one mitten and “Fight for the things you care about” on the other. The pattern is on Ravelry and runs kr.75.00 SEK, or about $8.94.

Max Pfeifer designed a hat with a collar motif in his Dissent pattern, which is available in one size and can be downloaded from Ravlery for $5.

Know any other RBG inspired knitting patterns? I’d love to hear about them!

Check out this Ruth Bader biographical coloring book introduces kids to the crusading Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thirty carefully researched and beautifully illustrated pages highlight the important milestones in Ginsburg’s remarkable life, from her time as a law professor and her years on the U.S. Court of Appeals to her career as the 107th Supreme Court Justice.

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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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