Knitting Today: Pumpkins!

 Many years ago a granddaughter said to me that I should decorate for holidays. Finally I am doing a little decorating.

There is a pattern called Velvet Pumpkins, so named because of the Bernat Velvet yarn which is a bulky weight yarn. This yarn was not available in a store near me so I chose other yarn.

Here is what I made.  So far...

This a mini pumpkin, a small pumpkin, and a medium pumpkin.  There is also a large pumpkin but I have not yet made that.

The yarn for mini and small is:

This orange yarn was held with just one strand.

These two yarns were held together for the medium pumpkin.  I used US #8 knitting needles for the knitting.  The stem on the medium pumpkin had an add-in of some chocolate brown I Love This Cotton that I got for another project that I have not yet started.

When you look at the original knitting pattern you will see that those pumpkins in that Bernat Velvet yarn have definite lobes in them.  I felt that the delineation in these plain pumpkins was good enough.  They are now sitting on our dining room table for us to admire and think about autumn every time we  walk by.

The pattern states that it will take about two hours to knit a pumpkin.  That may be true. I did not manage to time the knitting.