Stitch Some Shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have time to stitch a little green. I’m loving this collection of shamrock patterns I found on Ravelry (by the way, they just hit 3 million registered users, which is so awesome!).

Mary C. Gildersleeve’s St. Patrick’s Day Washcloth features a three-leaved shamrock worked in an eyelet pattern and is a free Ravelry download.

Another washcloth pattern can be found at Kris Knits. It uses garter stitch on a ground of stockinette to make the shamrocks stand out.

Vickie Howell has a cute mitered Bejeweled Shamrock pattern on her site that you can make with a scrap of sock yarn. If you don’t have a heat-setting tool, you could sew a blingy button to the center.

Add a four-leaf clover charm to your cell phone with this adorable pattern from Free Cute Knit.

And if you want to try a loom-knitted version, check out this shamrock pattern from Loom Lore.

(And if you’re looking for more St. Patrick’s Day patterns, check out my projects at About; especially the adorable Rainbow Scarf, which is a really quick knit.)

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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