25 days of instructions, each with a small bit of knitting or assembly to do. You’ll end up with 5 different stuffed ornaments to hang on your tree or to gift to friends!

This Advent Ornament KALendar is a little present for you. Pair it with a Pretty String Advent calendar set or your leftover sock yarn.

This year’s ornaments are all worked in the round on dpns and stuffed. They each feature a few beads (size 6/0 seed beads), but beads aren’t mandatory.

Patterns include:

• string of lights
• long pointed ornament
• abstract snowman ornament
• beaver ornament
• poinsettia ornament

Skills used:
knitting in the round
increasing
decreasing

Yarn requirements:
2 to 25 colours of fingering weight yarn, total of ~300 yards/275 m. Each day’s instructions will use up to 12 yards of yarn.

A heavier weight yarn could be used, but the yardage requirements will change.

Additional supplies:
stuffing/fill
needle appropriate for embroidery
size 6/0 seed beads (~300)
small jump rings for top of ornaments if desired