Quick Knit: Boot Toppers

If you’re still looking for something to stitch up for someone for the holidays or a little treat for yourself now that all your holiday knitting is done, why not whip up some cute boot toppers?

These are little almost like legwarmers that are just a few inches long and are usually meant to go under your boot and mostly show above the top of your boot. The idea is that it’s a little more comfortable to have just this bit of bulkier material at the top of the boot rather than wearing a big bulky sock that might get bunched up in your boot.

The Sweater Babe is offering a cute pattern for cabled boot cuffs that take a single ball of yarn; the pattern PDF retails for $3.

If you want to go the free route there are several options on Ravelry. Some of my favorites include Rebekah’s Boot Cuffs, which have an easy twisted stitch pattern and the super simple Boot Cuff from Lewis Knits.

Looking for more Boot Cuff knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy as well as this Knitted Boot Cuff Pattern book on Amazon.

Have you ever knit or worn boot toppers? I’d love to hear about your experience. I’m thinking of making myself some really soon…

[Photo via the Sweater Babe.]

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As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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