Why Not Knit Some Halloween Ornaments?

We all know about knitting Christmas balls, but what about knit Halloween balls?

Yes, some people really do put up a tree for Halloween, but even if you don’t, these would make a cute garland or they’d look great in a bowl on the table or something.

Susann Hajjar designed these free color charts with the Julekuler generator and they don’t have written patterns, just the charts. But you can see from the chart that you would start with 12 stitches, increase every other round 7 times, then work straight for a certain number of rounds until you decrease down again in the same fashion.

Here are links to all her charts, which are downloadble PDFs on Ravelry in English or German:

These are so cute, and all but the bat and the witch use just two colors, so they’re pretty easy to knit, too, if you’re comfortable working in the round, reading charts and doing stranded colorwork.

If anyone knits these I’d love to see them!

[Photo by Susann Hajjar via Ravelry.]

Looking for more things to Knit for Halloween? Check out these Halloween Knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts.

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts.

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects.

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version.

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want.

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do.

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like.

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.

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