Knit a Stocking for Your Christmas Dinner Utensils

It all started with a pin. I don’t even know where the original pin came from for sure (though I found the image at Mommy Despot) and I know I have pinned somewhere but I can’t even find the pin.

Anyway, this image has been floating around Pinterest of a table set with all the utensils tucked into little cable knit stockings.

It’s adorable, and more than once I’ve seen people on Pinterest asking for the pattern, or people have asked me for a pattern.

The original ones were store-bought, the horror, but we can do better because I just whipped up a few variations on the knit utensil stocking that I’ve shared over at CraftBits.

You’ll find two cabled versions (same pattern, but the cable twists different ways if you want to change it up) and a striped stockinette version, which you could also do solid and decorate with embroidery, or add a little colorwork motif to, or whatever else you wanted to do.

They’re pretty fast projects, so you have plenty of time to knit up a bunch for your holiday table.

Do you know the pin I’m talking about? Do you have it pinned somewhere too? Is this a project you would make? I’d love to hear about it!

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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.

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