Knitting Velvet Pumpkin Softies
Hi I'm Kristen and welcome to STUDIO KNIT.
Enjoy decorating your home in these touchably soft velvet pumpkins that you can knit
up and they look great all throughout the holiday season using the same
pattern you can up different sizes of your choice in today's example I'll be
knitting up this cute little mini pumpkin size and if you liked this
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help me out for our materials we are starting out with a yarn I'm using
BERNAT VELVET yarn it's a bulky weight yarn feel free to use any yarn of your
choice size 7 knitting needles you'll definitely want double pointed needles
and we are knitting flat on straight needles and of course scissors and a
tapestry needle now for your needles if you're knitting a mini smaller size then
just regular straight needles will do if you'd like to make the larger size we
are knitting it flat but circular needles help you
knit a longer piece and of course you'll want some sort of stuffing I am using
just some basic polyfill I have an Amazon shop that lists out everything
that I'm using in this video I'll have that linked down below if you'd like to
check it out for our knitting pattern everything is available over on my
website totally for free and if you would like a printable pdf pattern that
you can download that is available to everybody on my studio knit mailing list
our gauge swatch is created with 14 stitches across and 20 rows up using our
materials in the stockinette stitch pattern and I want to point out that the
knitting needles are size down smaller than the yarn suggests because we want
to knit up a really tight weave to begin we create our beloved Slipknot
and we are going to be casting on six stitches now it's six stitches no matter
what size pumpkin you choose to knit up and here's a close-up of the pattern
we're beginning with an increase section so those six little stitches we're going
to be increasing it row by row our increase section is kfb that's knit
front and back so you knit your first stitch but we are not taking it off of
our needle we're actually coming back around
after we knit in the front we knit in to the back to increase from one stitch to
two so right here we have two stitches on our needle let's do that again closer
up we knit into the front now we don't take it off of our needle we come around
to the back knit again into the back and we have increased and we do that on
every single stitch so now we have 12 stitches on our needle and all of the
even rows are going to be just a straight purl stitch all the way down
the row of course this is all written out for you in detail on my website and
in that PDF download I just want to sort of give you an overview of a few little
items so that you can see exactly how they are knit up let's look at one more
increase row so Row three you'll see an asterisk little star and kfb so we are
knitting front and back again this is an increase stitch where we're going from
one stitch to - so that's the kfb and the next is k1 that just means knitting
one stitch and then there's another asterisks and this means that you're
repeating in between those asterisks so you'll do kfb again we're knitting into
the front and then we're going around to the back to create that in
crease stitch and then we just finish up with one little knit stitch and there
are increase rows going all the way down within the pattern and then you'll be
jumping to the stockinette stitch section say that three times fast
depending on how big your making your pumpkin so for my little mini pumpkin
here all of my increase rows are completed and you'll see that it's
taking a nice little rounded shape already here's the front of our work the
right side of our work it's nice and rounded it has some great dimension to
it if I flip it over you'll see on the wrong side on the back the little
concave bit and let's just place it down and next is the stockinette stitch
section and that's really simple that is just knitting the first row and purling
the next so since we are doing our mini pumpkin we're just knitting four rows of
the stockinette stitch pattern so that means we are doing four rows so that's
Row one two three and four knitting all purling all knitting all and purling all
it's just straight stockinette and now it's time to decrease already and the
decrease instructions in our pattern are based on the size of the pumpkin so we
are doing a mini so that means we are jumping to row 13 and then knitting from
13 all the way down so let me show you what these decreases are it's k2
together so instead of knitting one stitch unit two together and that
decreases it from two to one stitch and then we are knitting just for regular
stitches and let's do that one more time we are knitting two stitches together to
decrease and then knitting four and we are just going to follow along according
to the pattern let's do one more here this is row fifteen we are knitting two
together and then we're knitting three stitches and then we repeat in between
the asterisks again with that knit two together until we get to the very end
and we have six stitches on our needle just like we did when we began and get a
little bit of a yarn tail and you will cut your yarn weave it through that
tapestry needle and just weave it through your stitches we don't have to
bind off on this one that's fun so we're just sort of cinching up and then we are
going to fold our pumpkin with the right sides touching so on the outside is the
wrong side and we are going to just simply tack our edges together about
three-quarters of the way all the way across and now with this little opening
here we will just turn our work right side out so that nice pretty stockinette
that smooth surface is what everybody sees and we take our stuffing and just
lightly stuff your pumpkin ball it turns into this really pretty ball you can
actually make a knitted ornaments stop right here and then go ahead finish up
seaming it cinch it together and I am going to cheat you could weave in your
ends I am just going to knot it a couple times right here and cut off these yarn
tails now next you'll want to get a nice long piece of yarn and I'm going to
double it up because I'm pulling really tightly on the yarn and this velvet yarn
is delicate if you pull on it too tightly
I'm putting the two ends through my tapestry needle and then I am going to
go ahead and put it right there through the center and I have the little loop
there I'm going to take my needle and knot through the exact same hole but a
different one I'm going to take it back down through my little pumpkin ball and
sent it up nice and tightly just threading it through that loop helps
keep it secure and from here we do what I'm calling pumpkin wedging and that is
just wrapping the yarn around the perimeter of your pumpkin and cinching
it up I'm going to make six little wedges on mine you can make as many or
as few as you would like and when you're done you can either weave in your ends
tie them off whatever you'd like to do and cut your yarn now we're going to
make our little pumpkin stem doing an i-cord if I cord is new to you I'll sort
of give you an overview I have a great eye cord video that I will link to for
you you need double pointed needles to make this and we are going to cast on
four stitches onto our needle and before you knit it you slide the stitches all
the way to the other side and then you knit from that end right there I like to
pull on the yarn tail when I'm starting the icord to sort of help give it its
shape and continue until your iCard is the length you desire right is about two
inches long here just tack it right on to the top of your pumpkin and you can
choose which side you want to be the top and the bottom of your pumpkin weave in
your ends cut off your yarn tail and you are done I hope you are inspired to knit
up these beautiful velvet pumpkin softies it is my new tradition for
seasonal Halloween and Thanksgiving home decor here at studio knit thank you so
much for watching please subscribe make sure to get that knitting pattern over
on my website and I will see you next time, guys
BYE!