Knitting Patterns to Help Keep You Organized

I’ve been thinking a lot about organization this month and I wondered if we could knit things to keep our knitting lives in order. Because any excuse for a knitting project, right?

One of the most obvious things that knitters can knit for themselves to keep their knitting stuff organized is needle storage. You can make your own knit needle rolls like the Case in Point from Briney Deep Designs, which calls for sport-weight cotton. Reinforce the knitting with fabric (which keeps your needles from poking through as easily) with this pattern from DW Crochet Patterns, which uses three colors of DK weight yarn.

How about storing circular needles? You can try the Memories of Aloha knitting needle holder from Bellaricka, which is a cool wall hanging even without needles woven through it. This one uses cables and lace to make holes through which to drape your needles, and it uses DK weight yarn. You can even use a knitting needle to hang it!

Another option is this Circularity needle organizer from Lark & Lupine, which is a free download on Ravelry. It has stripes and cables to help you keep your needles organized, and you can embroider the sizes and cable lengths on the side of the wall hanging so you always know what goes where and can find what you need. This one uses aran/worsted weight yarn and would be a great stash buster.

Cast on Calamity has an idea fr making little sleeves for needles that include bobbles and eyelets to indicate the measurement in millimeters for the needles (example: a 5.5 mm needle sleeve would have 5 bobbles and 2 eyelets). My cat would probably steal these but it’s a cool idea.

Make a big felted wall hanging with pockets that can hold needles and other supplies with this free pattern from Berroco. Organiza uses bulky yarn and has six sleeves for needles and 14 pockets of various sizes that can hold needles, crochet hooks, scissors and other notions and supplies.

And if you like to keep all your supplies literally close at hand you can stitch up a Pandemic Wrister. This free pattern from Claudia Krisniski is on Ravelry and is worked in worsted weight yarn. It gives you space for stitch markers, yarn needles, cable needles and more right where you need them.

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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