Here’s a fun little pattern to embellish your gifts of spirits for the New Year. These sweet little stocking caps look adorable perched atop bottles of all kinds. Knit them in the round with small amounts of scrap yarn in about 30 minutes, then pat yourself on the back for avoiding buying another expensive, throw-away bow!
Materials:
3.5 mm needles (US size 4)
small amount DK to worsted yarn
Instructions:
CO 15 loosely and join in the round being careful not to twist stitches
P 4 rows
K 12 rows
(K2tog, k3) around
K 3 rows
(K2tog, K2) around
K 7 rows
(K2tog, K1) around
K 14 rows
k2tog around
k 10 rows
cut yarn and thread through remaining stitches. Fasten off. Make pom pom and attach to top of hat Place on bottle and gift with much good humor.
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Happy 2012 to you, Crafty Friends!
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20 Comments
Oh my goodness… I love them – and they will now be adorning my daughter’s Barbie collection since we have nowhere to go this NYE. Cutest little project though, y’all are always so creative.
Thanks Amy!
Oh, these are super cute! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012 =o)
Happy Holidays to you, Hanna!
OMGosh! Those are awesome!! I’m back on my knitting kick and this is going to be perfect for using some left over yarn! Thanks!
Glad you’ll enjoy them, Andrea! I had a blast covering every bottle in my house. Once I got started….well, the ketchup needed one, the lemon juice, the mustard…
Those are adorable, I’m definitely going to have to make some of them
Thanks Emma! Hope you enjoy knitting them up. They’re so fast!
So cute idea! i love it very much.
Thanks! Have fun making them.
I love these! I made one with cotton (which I didn’t like so much) and one with wool (which I did like!)…what kind of yarn did you use for these?
Hi Camille! I used wool. It’s made by Mirasol – and is called Hacho. It’s a dk weight 100% wool. I liked them out of wool also because they stretch, and spring back, like cotton doesn’t so much.
oh, how cute they are. I don’t knit at all…but, maybe somebody I know can make me some from your gift of a pattern…. thanks for it. I want some of my little bears to have one!!
You’re welcome BumbleVee! Maybe you can trade a knitter something to get them to knit some for you! (I’m big on bartering)
Thank you for sharing this tutorial. I am wanting to learn how to knit and this looks like a good small project to start with. I pinned the picture to my pinterest page with a comment including your webpage. Thanks!
I see Share The Love for facebook and twitter but not an option to link to pinterest. Is that an option? I could be a dork because I am not sure what a tumbler or digg is. Thanks for your help.
Hi Leah,
I use pinterest too so I’m extremely bummed that it’s not yet an option in our social media sharing plugin. However, I have looked into it and they do say it’s coming soon so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s REALLY soon! Hopefully you’ll see it as an option on our blog very soon!
Super cute idea! I’ve included it in a blog post about my favourite things this week: http://www.matinlapin.com/2012/01/my-favourite-things-this-week_08.html
Vixie
this is too freaking cute!
Thanks Steven!
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