This pattern will provide you with the basics of how to knit up your own toadstool and give you some cool ideas on how to jazz up your project with yarn ideas and embellishment tips. These toadstools look great hanging from a Christmas tree, a door handle or all snuggled up together as a centerpiece in a bowl. No matter how many you make or how you style them, they’ll look fantastic and really add a special touch to your A/W decor.

Level: intermediate or very confident beginner.

Yarn and materials:

· Less than 25g of DK weight yarn, ideally in cotton, wool or a blend. Feel free to use acrylic but natural yarns look a lot better in my opinion and don’t pill! You will need the main colour (MC) for the stalk and bottom of the cap and a contrast colour (CC) for the cap itself.

· 3.5 mm longer-length circular knitting needles, a stitch marker, scissors, yarn needle.

· Oddments of embroidery floss, glitter thread, buttons, sequins or whatever you like to decorate the cap of the toadstool.

· Fiberfill stuffing or leftover yarn to stuff your work.

Skills: Knitting on circular needles using the magic loop method, knit stitch (k), purl stitch (p), invisible join in the round, knit into the front and back of the stitch increase (kfb), knit two stitches together decrease (k2tog), cast on and bind off, weaving in ends.