Knit Cuties for the Little Ones on Your List

I’ve been knitting a lot for my daughter lately. I think it’s to make up for the year I was working on a book full of adult garments and not knitting anything at all her size. But now I’ve got my eye on knits for smaller humans, and there’s always a lot of cute stuff to stitch.

Here are a few things that have crossed my radar lately.

Love Knitting has the cutest free patterns, and they’re all about dapper cardigans for little ones recently. The striped cardigan from Style Craft and the Christmas-colored Debbie Bliss cardigan are both shown on boys but would be adorable on any baby. (Both are free but require a free subscription signup.)

The summery I’ll Knit You Up I Love You Sew form Jordana Paige is super cute to make any time of year, and doesn’t require a lot of knitting because the bodice of the dress is knit while the skirt is fabric. You could make it a more winter-friendly dress by stitching longer sleeves.

And Classic Elite’s Center Out Baby Blanket is a lovely, colorful pattern worked in a self-striping yarn, great for any little one (or little one to be) on your list.

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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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