Knit Yourself an Awesome Plaid Scarf

Here’s another fun knitting technique to add to your resolutions list (as if you need more of those, right?).

Knitting plaid looks really complicated, and I suppose it could be, but there are lots of tricks you can use to make it a lot easier. Such as not actually knitting it all.

This plaid scarf pattern from Stitches N Scraps shows you how. The scarf body is worked in stripes, so you’re only working with one color on each row.

The vertical lines of the plaid are worked in later, using slip stitch crochet. It’s really simple even if you don’t know how to crochet, I promise.

This is such a lovely scarf, great for ladies and guys, and though it’s rated intermediate it is really not that difficult, and it looks really impressive.

Have you ever knit plaid? I’d love to know how it went for you. Did you use this technique or make it a different way?

[Photo via Stitches N Scraps.]

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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