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Projects to Knit for Valentine’s Day

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It’s kind of funny to me that I can come up with different things to share for Valentine’s Day every year, but here we are with another roundup of Valentine’s Day knitting patterns. (For some old ones, check out hats with hearts, quick Valentine’s Day projects and more projects with hearts.)

This little heart garland from Little Red Window caught my eye this time. My daughter has a garland of felt hearts that’s been hanging in her bedroom for years, but this is a super cute handmade option. It calls for worsted weight yarn and is actually knit in one piece so you don’t have to sew all the hearts together.

Cables are a fun way to make hearts, and you can practice your cable knitting with this cute washcloth pattern from Oh La Lana Designs. There are actually two versions of the pattern, one with a single cable panel up the middle and one with two panels as shown.

Or how about a heart shaped washcloth or dishcloth? The Practical Little House by Heidi Kirrmaier (free download on Ravelry) uses worsted weight cotton and is worked from the bottom up until you have a square, then you pick up stitches for the curved bits.

If you’ve got a baby in your life you want to knit a special sweater for, check out the Valentine Baby Cardigan from Love Life Yarn. This project uses worsted weight yarn and comes in three sizes for babies up to 18 months. It’s worked flat in pieces and seamed, with the heart worked in intarsia. The front zips and it includes a hood.

Caitlin Hunter’s Cold Hearts Cowl has flowers that look like hearts and is a pretty easy two color cowl knitting pattern. Worked in the round in heavy DK or worsted yarn, it’s a pretty quick project that’s perfect for practicing stranded knitting. Grab the pattern on Ravelry.

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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.