Pride Knitting Patterns

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.

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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