My fall crochet and knitting plans 🍂 🎃 🧶
It’s time for fall projects! Today I wanted to share my fall crochet and knitting projects plans. If you’d prefer to learn more in video format, you can check out my video on YouTube.
Starting with crochet, I first want to mention that crochet to me really means plushies. I’m not talking about wearables or accessories. I love to make amigurumi so those are the patterns that I’ll be focusing on today. These include both the traditional Halloween patterns, think ghosts, witches, gnomes, candy corn, etc, and regular fall decor, such as pumpkins and fall-colored leaves.
The first item that caught my eye while I was browsing was this ghost holding a pumpkin. It looks so sweet and so huggable. The pattern is by White Art Line. I want to try making this ghost plushie in a few different yarns. Since the beginning, my tried and true go-to is the Bernat Blanket yarn. That’s what I make the vast majority of my plushies with. But I also want to try the Bernat Velvet. This is a size 5 bulky yarn so I expect the ghost will be a bit smaller. But the yarn is incredibly soft and feels different from the super bulky blanket yarn. I also want to try the Big Twist Value yarn which is a size 4. This will, again, be even smaller, but I’m intrigued to see how they all compare. I imagine the smaller ones will look more like decor pieces rather than a plushie for kids, but I’ll find out once I make them to compare.
The second pattern that caught my eye was this adorable ghost walking a dog by Once Upon a Cheerio. I picked up the Lion Brand DIY Glow Yarn Natural yarn, so I’m really excited to see how this turns out. This is a size 4 yarn, which feels very thin to me, probably because I’m just so used to the super bulky yarn. I knew I would likely make multiple projects with this pattern, and likely other patterns too with the glow-in-the-dark yarn so I picked up a couple of skeins. I’ll try to use it as is, just as a size 4, and I’ll also try holding two strands together to see how much larger the project turns out.
The third project that I’m planning on is one I’d saved months ago, a ghost lovey by Mimi Magic Art. I have loved making loveys from Mama Made Minis, so I knew I had to include at least one lovey for my fall plans. Despite being a ghost, it still looks so cuddly and adorable. And this is another pattern that I’d like to try the three different yarn types and see how they compare.
Another project that I came across was this adorable mummy by Lovely Craft. It’s so cute and gives me a bit of a break from all the white plushies that I’d saved. I’ll also use different yarns for this one, I’m thinking the smaller one will turn into a decor piece while larger ones will still resemble plushies.
Lastly, this incredible pumpkin gnome by Mufficorn. That little hanging pumpkin is just too cute. I’m thinking of a few different color combinations that I want to try, including a candy corn-colored one.
Some non-plushie crochet items that I also want to make include blankets. There are two types of blankets that have caught my eye recently, a granny stripe stitch blanket and an overlay mosaic crochet blanket.
For the granny stripe stitch blanket, I came across this collection from Pattern Center that gave me the idea to use up my Premier Yarns Retro Velvet and Hobbi Honey Bunny yarns. I have tried making plushies with both of these and really struggled as the yarn falls apart when making magic circles or sewing parts on. I plan on alternating the colors with white and making a lap blanket with the granny stripe stitch.
For the overlay mosaic crochet blanket, the Geometric mosaic blanket by Juniper & Oakes blew me away. It’s beautiful and intricate and something that I know I’d cherish forever knowing that I made it myself. I want to get started this fall but it looks not only difficult, but also very time consuming, so while I plan to get started, I don’t believe I’ll finish it this fall, and maybe not even in the winter. It may be a work in progress for a while.
These are all the projects I have in mind for crochet, although I’m sure new ones will come up as my feed is inundated with finished projects from some of my favorite creators.
Moving on to knitting! As a kid, I used to knit baby socks with my grandma, but that was well over 25 years ago. As my crochet patterns have become more advanced, I found that I really wanted to try my hand at making a sweater. However, as I browsed on Ravelry, I found myself far more drawn to knitted sweaters than crocheted sweaters.
Recalling that the most helpful part of the Woobles kit for learning crochet was the collection of video tutorials, I searched on YouTube for a sweater knitting tutorial and found this one. Ashley Lillis has a step by step, super detailed tutorial video on how to knit a raglan sweater. I’ve already ordered the recommended yarn and can’t wait to try knitting my first sweater!
Depending on how that goes, I’d love to try my hand at a PetiteKnit sweater. Her sweaters make up the majority of my saved sweaters in Ravelry, so perhaps I’ll try following the written pattern for the Cloud Sweater for my second attempt.
Those are all the projects I have in mind for the fall for crochet and knitting. I’ll check in in a month’s time to share my progress with you and can’t wait to get started!