Rainbow Knitting Patterns for Pride and Beyond

Rainbow is a color scheme that most people like, and it’s an easy way to bring color into your knitting projects without having to put a whole lot of thought into it. Whether you’re stitching for Pride or just for someone who loves cheerful colors, these rainbow knitting patterns are a perfect place to start.

The Paintbox Hoodie by Brooklyn Downer, which is available on Knit Picks, is a great classic hoodie design with rainbow striped sleeves. It includes cropped and standard length options, and four roomy sizes to choose from. There’s also an optional kangaroo pocket. It uses sport weight yarn.

If you prefer allover rainbow stripes, the Rainbow Ring sweater by Stephen West is a great choice. This top-down, circular yoke sweater is worked in fingering weight yarn and is available in nine sizes. The color stripes are worked in stockinette while the background color stripes are reverse stockinette for a bit of added texture. You can find the pattern on Ravelry.

Or how about a sweater with bold rainbow stripes? The Pride Jumper from Popsicle Emporium on Etsy uses wide stripes and is available in two sizes. It’s an easy drop shoulder style great for your first sweater project.

The yoke on the Somewhere Rainbow sweater from 1 Knitty Little Thing on Etsy features rainbow stripes in reverse order from the Pride flag, but you can work them in the other direction if you’d rather. It comes in seven sizes and uses DK weight yarn.

Or how about some rainbow-striped leg warmers? The Rainbow Gems leg warmers pattern from The Barbarian Hoarde on Ravelry uses worsted weight yarn in rainbow colors and black. There are three size options so you should be able to keep just about anyone’s legs cozy with this pattern.

And if you’re looking for a quick rainbow project to use up leftovers from a bigger Pride project, try this rainbow striped heart from Marianna’s Lazy Daisy Days. This was meant to be an applique for a baby blanket but you could make two and sew them together to make a tiny pillow, use them as patch pockets on a project, sew onto your jacket or whatever you like.

Or stitch up this pretty teeny tiny rainbow from Rosie Posie Knit Co. on Etsy. It’s worked flat in whatever weight of yarn you like, then you fold it and sew it together into a little amigurumi-style rainbow perfect as a keychain or zipper pull.

Easy Rainbow Knitting Patterns

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I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]

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