Thanksgiving Knitting Patterns

Thanksgiving as a crafting holiday tends to get passed over. We love making pumpkins for Halloween (which can also be for Thanksgiving, it’s true) and ALL the crafting for Christmas, but maybe because we’re so focused on cooking there’s not a lot of time left for holiday crafting.

Let’s check out a few Thanksgiving knitting patterns for the table and a little bit of cute decor you can make for this fun foodie holiday.

The turkey dishcloth from Yarnspirations adds a bit of fun to doing the holiday dishes, though I think I would use it for display more than actually cleaning purposes. If you didn’t include the legs and other details it would be easier to use as a dishcloth, but it’s super cute this way.

A more traditional washcloth with the turkey worked on a square can be found from Daisy and Storm on Etsy. You can use DK or worsted weight yarn and the pattern is presented as a chart or in written instructions.

Sherrie Kibler’s Thanksgiving napkin rings are super cute and easy to stitch with a little colorwork done stranded knitting style. They’re worked in the round and bunched up to make a little tie like shape. You can get the pattern on Ravelry.

Keep your wine cozy — or use a bottle as a table decoration — with this Thanksgiving Skol wine cozy from Ellen Susanne. It’s worked in the round from the bottom up with worsted weight yarn and includes a lot of stranded colorwork including pumpkins, hearts, turkeys and the word thankful. You can find the pattern, as well as a collection of bottle cozies for every month of the year, on Ravelry.

Or make a potholder for your pie with the Blessed apple pie potholder from Donielle Oliver Showvay. This pattern uses superfine yarn and double knitting to make a potholder that’s both thick and pretty. You can get it on Ravelry.

Of course knitting turkeys is a great thing to do for Thanksgiving, and I’ve collected a lot of turkey knitting patterns before, so be sure to check those out if you’re looking for more ideas.

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I’ve been enjoying knit amigurumi animal patterns lately (see also: this adorable knit pigeon) and of course being a knitter I love llamas.

So when I saw this little llama pattern I knew I had to share it.

The appropriately named Llama patter from Annie Ahn calls for fingering weight yarn, and it uses two colors for the body and three for the little blanket. The pompom can be made to match or in another color. All of these parts take tiny amounts of yarn so you can use whatever scraps you have left over from socks or other projects and change colors whenever you need to.

It might also be fun to use some mohair or other fuzzy or textured yarn on this one to give your llama a different look. In all the project uses between 100 and 150 yards, or 91-137 m, of yarn and the llama comes out about 10 cm/4 inches tall.

The body of the llama is worked in one piece, so this project is suited to intermediate knitters or those who have comfort working in the round and with all those little pieces.

This one is made to be small so you can carry it around with you (it would be super cute on a keychain or as a zipper pull) but I think it would be a lot of fun to knit this in larger yarn, too, to make a bigger llama. You could even make a whole family in different sizes just by using different weights of yarn and corresponding needles.

The details are so cute, from the shaggy hair to its little accessories, but you could make it plain or change it up by knitting a tiny scarf or even working a little fair isle pattern on the legs or body. So many fun possibilities!

The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and Korean.

[Photo: Annie Ahn]

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