Perfect Knitting Projects for a Wedding

When I got married I actually wasn’t doing that much knitting. I don’t intend to get married again, but if I ever did, you can bet there would be knitting crafts involved on a much bigger scale.

I mentioned the other day that my lacy mitts would be great for a wedding, but I wanted to offer some other options, too.

Check out this free knitted coat hanger cover pattern on our sister site here.

Knitted coat hangers are a lovely handmade gift for a bridal party, as it allows the bride to be to hang her delicate dress on a soft hanger to prevent her dress for having fold lines. Knitted coat hangers are perfect for cashmere sweaters and delicate fabrics too. You can even add some dried lavender for knitted fragrant clothes hangers.

Looking for more Bridal or wedding patterns? Check out these Knitting patterns on Etsy.

In the category of “requires almost as much commitment as getting married,” I offers you the wedding gown by Linda Daniels and Jill Montogmery. This dress is amazing, gorgeous, and though not exactly difficult since most of it is a gathered skirt worked in mohair yarn, it will still take a lot of time (and more than 7,500 yards of mohair) to knit.

Shawls are a great choice for weddings, for the bride, bridal party and anyone else, because bare shoulders and air conditioning don’t mix well. The Wedding Peacock from MMario is a spectacular choice for show-stopping piece, and the page on Ravelry shows it knit up a bunch of different ways, including the original circle, half circle and with beads.

The Posh Wedding Shrug by Cecily Glowick MacDonald is another great option that will knit up a lot quicker and keep your shoulders cozy throughout the ceremony and reception.

Other options for hand coverings include Lois S. Young’s Wedding Day Gloves, which have columns of eyelets running down the fingers and hand (free membership to Knitting Universe required to download) and the Wedding Belle Lace Gloves by Cathy Maguire for Lion Brand Yarn. These sweet little mitts are knit flat in ribbing with a lace pattern that goes across the front of the hand.

Lion Brand also has some great patterns by Nicky Epstein that are perfect for a wedding day, including a cummerbund and bow tie, a ring bearer’s pillow and a little bag for the bride.

Eloping by Abigail van Roode and Kristi Geraci is a sweet little lacy garter that was originally worked with handspun, but there are some great alternatives listed in the pattern.

Have you ever knit for a wedding? I’d love to hear what you made!

Any time of year is a good time for stash busting, but if you can combine it with knitting a blanket that will keep you warm when it (finally!) gets cooler that’s even better. Let’s take a look at some fun patchwork blanket knitting patterns.

If you want to keep it super simple, you can just make blocks of garter stitch and sew them together, like the beginner’s patchwork baby blanket from Mini Baa Baa or the color block blanket from Make and Do Crew. Both projects are worked in strips and sew together, with the baby version calling for two strands of DK or light worsted weight yarn held together and the larger one using bulky yarn.

Add a little more texture with the mixed blocks of the cottage quilt throw from Mama in a Stitch. This one combines garter stitch and seed stitch and uses worsted weight yarn. She used a crochet join to make the chains on top of the blocks, but you can join them however you like. It calls for eight colors but you can use what you have, and there are three size options.

Get a real sampler style patchwork blanket with this design from Knit Sew Make. It calls for worsted weight yarn and has four size options. All of the patterns just use knit and purl stitches so this one is still pretty easy for beginners.

If you want a more complex colorwork project that will keep you entertained all season, try the Peace by Piece blanket pattern from Needle and Feather. This one is made up of two color colorwork blocks and calls for worsted weight yarn. You can choose to use just a few of the blocks and repeat them more often, or make multiples of the whole set.

The knitted patchwork recipe from Martine Ellis (free on Ravelry) uses mitered squares in fingering weight yarn, so it’s perfect for using up all your leftover sock yarn and mini skeins. This one is a tutorial more than a pattern so you can make your blanket as big as you like or keep going until you run out of yarn.

Susan B. Anderson’s 100 Squares blanket (find it on Ravelry) has a lot of mitered squares, too, but they’re arranged in fun ways and includes some quilt inspired designs as well. This one also is a bit of method more than pattern but it sure looks like a lot of fun for using all the leftovers.

Of course you can totally improvise a patchwork blanket using the yarn and stitches you like, but I hope these patterns inspire you to look at your leftover yarn in a new way.

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