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Knit an Acorn — or a Bunch — for Your Fall Decor

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I’m not really one to decorate with acorns, but I can attest to nature’s willingness to decorate my whole neighborhood with acorns this time of year. And now that I’ve seen this knit acorn pattern from Kim Hamlin at Fiber & Vine, I might just be ready to bring some acorns into my interior decor as well.

This sweet design is greatly enlarged from those found in nature (it measures 4.5 by 3 inches), and it’s worked in worsted weight yarn for fast and easy knitting. They would be super cute in a bowl on the Thanksgiving table or make one as a gift for whoever is hosting this year if you’re going to be at someone else’s table.

You can download the free pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Kim Hamlin.]

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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