Knit a Bouquet of Flowers

If you’re feeling impatient for real flowers to bloom, you can always knit your own! This collection of flower knitting patterns will bring color into your home that never fades. They make great gifts or decorations for gift bags, too.

This sweet little daisy from Linda Dawkins is easy to knit in DK weight yarn, and you could make them in lots of different colors to be different kinds of flowers if you want. The pattern is on Ravelry, and she also has an ebook of knit flowers if you’re looking for a bunch of different designs.

Daffodils are so cheerful, and this pattern from Love Fibres on Etsy shows you how to make a bunch that will look great throughout the season. These are made with DK weight yarn and you can use wire in the stem so they will stand up, or make a bloom and use it as a brooch.

Loani Prior has a really pretty rose knitting pattern that’s worked in stockinette in individual petals so you can make each rose look different. I love the idea of making a bouquet for a wedding or other special event.

Cathy Ren’s calla lily pattern, available on Ravelry, would be another fun one to stitch into a bouquet. Use DK or light worsted weight yarn and a chopstick or skewer in the stem.

A simple sunflower is one of the happiest flowers around, and you can stitch one for your desk or anywhere else that needs a little brightening up with this pattern from Liana OCF. It also calls for DK weight yarn and uses wooden skewers to hold it upright.

If you want to make a flower to wear as a pin or decorate a knitting project, this one from Little Pretty Boutiqu is a nice one. Use different yarn weights to make different sizes and decorate all sorts of projects, gifts or make a garland.

You can also knit a whole pot of flowers that will never wilt. Check out this pattern from iKnit Designs, which can use up all your leftover DK weight yarn as you stitch flowers of different colors.

Looking for more knit flower patterns? Check out this collection of knit flowers!

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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