Wee Apple Trees by Sarah Schira

Wee Apple Trees

Knitting
June 2022
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
32 stitches and 44 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch in the round, smaller needles
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
115 - 135 yards (105 - 123 m)
Fingering Weight Height: 5.5” / 14 cm
English
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➡️Yardage, Sizing, and Needle info also given for Worsted Weight.

Once I designed the Wee Evergreen pattern, I couldn’t get the idea of knitting a deciduous tree out of my head. And once I had the idea of adding little apples, I just knew it had to come to life.

The use of a few, simple pleat-stitch rounds has a huge impact on creating the leafy canopy.

$1 from the purchase of every Wee Apple Tree pattern goes to support the International Tree Foundation.

Skills Used
•knit and purl in the round
•k2tog
•kfb
•pleat stitch

Sizes
Fingering Weight
Height: 5.5” / 14 cm
Worsted Weight
Height: 8” / 20 cm

Materials
Approximate Yardage (with a 15% buffer)
Fingering Weight
Trunk - C1: 31 yd. / 28 m (6 g)
Canopy - C2: 105 yd. /96 m (23 g)
Apples - C3: 9 yd. / 8 m (2 g)

Worsted Weight
Trunk - C1: 46 yd. / 42 m (21 g)
Canopy - C2: 130 yd. / 118 m (60 g)
Apples - C3: 17 yd. / 16 m (8 g)

•Needles  
Fingering Weight
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm needles for knitting small circumference in the round or size needed to get gauge

Worsted Weight
US 3 / 3.25 mm and US 4 / 3.5 mm needles for knitting in the round or size needed to get gauge

•Notions
yarn needle, removable stitch markers, a beginning of round marker, fluffy stuffing like roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans, cardboard (or plastic container lid), felt or other material + needle and thread or fabric glue (optional, for toy)

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.