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Knit a Gift Card Holder for a Semi-Homemade Gift

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knit a gift card holder fo a semi-homemade giftIt’s getting down to the wire, and your hopes for knitting a lot of holiday gifts may be dashed, but there’s still hope, and time to knit a little something.

If you’re giving any gift cards this year (teacher gifts, anyone?) a really cute way to present them is in a knit holder, which can then be reused by the recipient, or even possibly become part of their holiday decor in the future.

That’s the case with my little stocking gift card holders that I made for CraftBits last year. They’re cute enough to hang on the tree or use again for another gift card or other tiny gift, and the multiple options mean you can use whatever yarn bits you have lying around.

Here are a few more knit gift card holders to get your needles going.

Mary Richmond’s Knitted Gift Card Holder is a simple garter stitch rectangle worked in multicolored yarn and seamed up the sides. It includes an envelope flap and a little buttonhole to keep things closed.

The Gift Card Holder from Tammy Imhoff includes knit and crochet versions worked in self-striping yarn. It has some fun details like a figure 8 cast on and textured stitch pattern, so you might even learn a new skill in this wee project.

Marilyn Clark is a bit of a Lion Brand Bon Bons fanatic. I shared her coffee cup cozies earlier, and she’s also knit up some great gift card holders using the fun, brightly colored yarn. One pack gets you nine, which is a super value.

Another cute and colorful project comes from Laura Bain, whose gift card holder is worked in the round (she calls for a tiny circular needle but you can do it on DPNs, too). It’s a little envelope worked in multicolored yarn with a triangluar closure that includes a button.

Simply Notable has a nice “gift cardigan” worked with a tree motif on the front, which is nice for working in a solid or more muted multicolored yarn.

Have you ever knit a gift card holder? It certainly makes the gift a little cuter!

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  1. I’ve just made several of Simply Notable’s Christmas Tree holders. They’re really pretty. I converted the pattern so I could knit it in the round, beginning at the bottom with a toe-up sock cast on. That made for lots of purling, but no seams! Thanks for the other ideas, which I’ll be trying, too.

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Beyond Basic Pumpkin Knitting Patterns

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork. 

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn. 

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look. 

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me. 

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. 

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.