Show Off Your Showgirl Style with Knit Mitts

November 7, 2025 by Sarah White

I am not a Swiftie, and I know that her latest album was a little controversial when it came out, but welcome for all who celebrate new music and a new phase in Taylor’s story.

And thanks to Laura Groff you can subtly show the world your showgirl side with here Just a Simple Showgirl Mitts.

The base pattern is a pair of super simple fingerless gloves with a separate space for the thumb. They call for fingering weight yarn and come in one size, about 9.5 inches long by 3.75 inches across when laid flat (that’s 24.13 cm long and 9.5 cm across).

The mitts are mostly straight stockinette stitch worked in the round, and you can leave them plain, worked in a solid color or stripes or whatever you want.

The pattern uses duplicate stitch in orange yarn (of course) to stitch the words show and girl on the fronts of each hand by the fingers. You can also bead on a ring where Taylor’s engagement ring would sit on the left hand.

If you don’t want to rock the show girl vibe, you could add any three or four letter words to the mitts that you like. I’m feeling knit and purl, of course, but you can use initials or whatever little message you want to spread on your mitts. The pattern only includes a chart for the words show girl, but they’re simple block text you could probably use as a template for writing out other words.

The pattern is available as free download from Creative Twist Studio, a yarn shop in Kentucky, and you can also buy a kit from them that includes the yarn and beads. What a fun way to support a small business in these weird times. The designer says this one is suitable for a confident beginner.

[Photo: Laura Groff]

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Stitch a Simple Sack Hat that Looks Like a Turkey

If your family is the sort to do a turkey trot for Thanksgiving, or even just to take family pictures, you’ll want to get started knitting up some Turkey Sack Hats with this pattern from Underground Crafter.

The pattern uses super bulky yarn and is rated easy. It’s knit flat but there are a few skills in here around the shaping of the eyes, which includes changing colors, working bobbles and doing a wicked purl 3 together decrease. Twice.

But that’s all in one row, and the rest of it is pretty simple. The beak is worked separately and sewn on, and the side of the hat is stitched up to make it into a hat.

What’s great about this one is that it comes in 10 sizes, ranging from newborn to adult large, so you really can make one for everyone in the family. And because it uses super bulky yarn you can knit a bunch pretty quickly if that’s a thing you’d like to do.

It’s also fun because you could use this base pattern to make different animals or for different holidays. Make it all in orange and stitch on a jack o’lantern face for Halloween, or make a white one that’s a snowman, for example.

In any style this would also be a fun gag gift for that person in your life who has everything or doesn’t want gifts, or if you do a secret Santa or white elephant gift exchange at work or elsewhere.

And make sure whether you’re making it a turkey or some other character that you include the pom poms at the top! They’re just so cure and a great way to add a bit more color to the project, and they’re easy to make. (See also: ways to make a pompom with yarn.)

You can grab the free pattern at the Underground Crafter website.

[Photo: Underground Crafter]