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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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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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.