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FREE - DIY KNIT PUMPKIN PATTERN

Chantal Miyagishima

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KNIT YOUR OWN DIY KNIT PUMPKIN FOR FALL

A DIY hand-knit pumpkin pattern? Heck yes. This pattern is incredibly cute and makes the most adorable centrepiece for your dining room table, perfect for Thanksgiving or to welcome in the Fall. I fell like I was late to the whole knit pumpkin thing, and I didn’t make my first one until 2023, butI have been madly in love with them since. So each year I make another and either add it to my centre piece, or I give them as gifts to friends and family. The main thing: they are so freaking CUTE!

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THE PERFECT DIY HAND KNIT PUMPKIN PATTERN

DIFFICULTY LEVEL:

This pattern is super beginner-friendly. You will need to know how to long-tail cast on. knit and purl in the round.

DESCRIPTION:

This pattern below is for an 8” (20cm) diameter pumpkin, that stands 4” (10 cm) tall. I also have tips and tricks on how to be able to make it in multiple sizes.

MATERIALS:

GAUGE:

9 sts x 13 rows = 4 x 4 inches (10cmx10cm) in K4, P2 repeat.

ABBREVIATIONS

BOR = Beginning of Round Marker
CO = Cast On
K = Knit
P = Purl

PATTERN

On US 15/10 mm circular needles and using a long tail cast on, cast on 48 sts using the long tail cast on. Place your BOR marker and join in the round:

R1: *K4, P2.*

Repeat R1 until you have worked 8” (20cm) in length. You can now remove your marker.

Leaving a 6” (15cm) tail, cut working yarn. Using a tapestry needle, thread the live stitches and pull tightly to close the top, secure with a knot and weave in this end. We will start calling this the “top” of the pumpkin. 

FILL YOUR PUMPKIN

At this point, you will want to take your polyfil and start stuffing. Continue to fill your pumpkin until it almost feels TOO full. This will help keep your pumpkin nice and plump and big! Bonus tip: after stuffing, to make it easier for your needle to make its way through your piece and fluff, create a little tunnel with your fingers in the center of the polyfill from one end to the other. this also helps equalize the stuffing around the full pumpkins circumference.

CLOSING THE BOTTOM

Cut a long tail of yarn roughly 80” (203cm) long. Using a tapestry needle weave it through your cast on stitches at the top and pull tightly to close. Secure with a knot.

CREATING THE PUMPKIN SHAPE

You will now use the remaining long tail to create the segments of the pumpkin to stand out, creating the distinct shape. Here you will be focusing on those purl sections and following them. You can watch a video on this HERE, starting at the 11:10ish mark.

Take your needle and push it from the bottom of the pumpkin through the middle, and to the top (not seen). Following one of the purl lines on the outside, wrap the yarn from top to bottom. (Seen below)

Insert your needle back through the bottom and pass through the middle (below left). Tighten to create the indent. (Below right). 

Once on the top, choose another purl line to follow down to the bottom and repeat. Each time, tighten the strand to “squish” your pumpkin and create those vertical lines/ridges. Once you have finished following all of the purl lines and created 8 sections, tie a knot on the bottom to secure. Weave in your end. 

THE STEM

Take your cinnamon stick and decide on how long you prefer it to be. Using glue (or even just jamming it into the middle), put it in the location of where a pumpkin stem would be. Tada, you’re done! 

MAKING DIFFERENT SIZE PUMPKINS

Now that you’ve made your first pumpkin, congrats! You can now play with the pattern to be able to make different sizes. Since this pattern is in a repeat of 6 stitches, you can adjust how many you want to cast on. Note: 6 stitches creates on “section” or ridge in your pumpkin. This pumping you just made has 48 stitches. Should you want to make a bigger pumpkin, you could cast on 54 stitches and work maybe 9 inches in height. This would create 9 “wedges”. If you wanted to make a smaller pumpkin, you could cast on 42 sts (7 wedges), 36 sts (6 wedges) and so on and so forth. Adjusting the stitch count in repeats of 6, and the length you work will make it easy to play with your pumpkins size and shape.

POLICIES

This pattern is a copyright of Chantal Miyagishima of Knitatude. DIY Knit Pumpkins created using this pattern may be sold. I would love if you credited Knitatude if possible. Pattern and photos can not be used for resale purposes. Please share your work with the hashtag #DIY KnitPumpkin and #knitatudeknits to share the handmade love.

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Bathmat DIY: Knit your own Suds & Bubbles Bathmat

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KNIT YOUR OWN SUDS & BUBBLES BATHMAT

Why buy it, when you can make one yourself? Isn’t that the ultimate crafter’s dilemma? Well - if you’ve been wanting to make your own bathmat that’s perfectly fuzzy, squishy and ready to fit into your bathroom - I have the perfect beginner-friendly rug pattern for ya. The best part? You only have to know how to cast on, bind off and do the knit stitch. Cause the yarn does everything else for you!

OK, I know this is where we all tune out and scroll to the bottom to find the pattern, but if you want to hear me throw my husband under the bus and find the reason why I decided to make my own, stick around for the next paragraph or two.

WHY A BATHMAT?

Cause my husband is a clumsy fool. We’ve had the same two matching IKEA bathmats for like… 3 years at this point. They are fuzzy, they are cute, they do the job. WELL. Say goodbye to one of them, as my husband haphazardly gets out of the bath… and SHATTERS two of my favourite candles. They tumble to the ground, exploding into a bunch of shards of glass. They are on the tile, they are in the grout… they are all in our bath mat - that ain’t easy to vacuum. With dogs and their sensitive paws, there is no way we were going to keep it. So I have been candless and bathmatless… for a month now. So I figured why not just make my own damn one. So I did. And now I am sharing that pattern with you. It’s hella simple, takes 3 balls of size 7 Jumbo yarn and I promise you can do it. Don’t want the ads? You can download the PDF pattern HERE for a couple of bucks.

THE YARN

Since I am the epitome of lazy, I decided to make the yarn do the hard work for me. I had looked at loop stitches and different textured stitches, trying to figure out how to get that fuzzy vibe. But I 1) didn’t want to learn a new stitch, and 2) I wanted something fast. I had 3 balls of Lionbrand Go For Fleece (affiliate link) laying around the house from a failed project (it was gonna be a badass fuzzy hoodie, but it suuuucked), so I decided to put it to good use.

Want the yarn or the kit from Lion Brand? Click HERE for the kit and HERE for the yarn itself. (I think you can also find it in Michaels and Joanne)

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LET’S GET YOU SET UP

Ok, enough with the long winded story, let’s get to the goods. The PATTERN!

MATERIALS:

•3 skeins of Lion Brand Go For Fleece (pictured in Pearl Grey) or approximately 244m/267yards of another jumbo weight yarn, category 7
•Size US 15/10mm circular needles 32”81cm in length
•Scissors
Darning needle

GAUGE

Knit in garter stitch flat
US 15/10mm needles :
7 sts x 10 rows = 4 x 4”

Note: This yarn is super hard to tell gauge, so I suggest casting on exactly 7 sts and working 10 rows. Measure to see if the edges of the fluffy yarn are coming out to the full 4 inches by 4 inches.

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

Length: 35”/89cm

Width: 24”/62cm

DESCRIPTION

Why buy a bathmat when you can custom make your own!? This bathmat is classic garter stitch pattern, but it’s the yarn that really shines. With a fluffy and fleece like texture, it really does feel like you’re stepping on clouds, and gives a store-bought look and appeal. You’ll have this whipped up in no time! This piece is knit flat but with circular needles to accommodate the number of stitches.

ABBREVIATIONS

CO = Cast On 
BO = Bind Off
K = Knit 
ST(S) = Stitch(es)

THE PATTERN

On US 15/10 mm needles CO 42 sts

R1: K all sts, turn work.

Repeat R1 until you have worked 35” /89 cm in length from your cast on.

Loosely BO all sts. Cut yarn.

FINISHING YOUR PIECE

Weave in your ends and lay it out flat. You have finished your suds and bubbles bathmat!

NOTES

This yarn is a tad tricky to work with at the start, but I promise you will get the hang of it. Just take your time and knit at a looser tension than you are accustomed to. Trust me! It will save your wrists. If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email at knitatude@gmail.com, or hit me up on social media at:

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POLICIES

This pattern is a copyright of Chantal Miyagishima of Knitatude. Suds and Bubbles Bathmats created using this pattern may be sold with credit given to Chantal Miyagishima of Knitatude. Credit must be given to Knitatude / knitatude.etsy.com. Pattern and photos can not be used for resale purposes. Please share your work with the hashtag #SudsandBubblesBathmat and #knitatudeknits to share the handmade love


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