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Pride Knitting Patterns

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June is the month for Pride, and I’ve shared a lot of Pride related knitting patterns and rainbow-colored designs in the past (see for example, rainbow patterns one and two, and little Pride flags) but there’s always room for more so here are some more fun Pride knitting patterns for you.

These little LGBTQ+ pride hearts are so cure and easy to knit, and great little stash busters if you have the right colors on hand. The pattern is from Juliette Pecault Design on Etsy, and while they used worsted weight yarn you can always use what you have on hand to make a heart of a different size.

For another quick and easy little project, check out the rainbow keychains circular knitting machine pattern from Diana Levine Knits. These cuties use a 40 needle machine and can me made in any sorts of rainbow colors you like. (And speaking of circular knitting machines, my loop scarf pattern was made with a rainbow colored yarn, so it would be great for Pride if the weather somehow ends up being cool.)

I started this journey of looking for Pride themed knitting patterns when I saw Trek with Pride, a free knitting pattern available on Ravelry. Designed by Mary Burch, this wrap features the Federation logo worked in rainbow colors. It uses sock yarn and would be a great use for any rainbow-colored mini skeins you have lying around.

I had Annie Lupton’s Say Gay Banner (a free pattern on Ravelry) saved on Instagram since last year, so I’m glad I finally was able to share it. She also has a Love is Love banner (also on Ravelry). These little designs don’t take a lot of yarn and they’d be super cute hanging in a window (or you could even add the sentiment to a sweater!).

Duke of Nikko designed a rainbow colored cowl with the word gay repeating in different colors along the bands of color. It uses sock yarn and is also available on Ravelry.

And Makers’ Mercantile has a pattern that’s free on Ravelry for progress wrist warmers using DK weight yarn. If you don’t have all the colors you need you can also buy a kit from them, the proceeds of which benefit Tacoma Older LGBT.

 

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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.