All ten charms for the Charmed Garland plus the garland to hang them on for a fraction of the price of buying separately!

Inspired by the fun we have as a family decorating for Christmas each year and enjoying tasty decorated gingerbread with hot chocolate afterwards, I created a garland with fun characters and other Christmas symbols that you can look forward to meeting again each year and even personalise to resemble your own family.

You can choose whether to make one of each ornament or more and whether to present them as a pretty fireplace, shelf or staircase garland or keep them as individual ornaments for your tree. This purchase includes a full knitting pattern for all the ornaments and garland. A crocheted version is available as a separate pattern, so do take a look at that if you also like to crochet.

What you’ll need to know before you start:

Sizes: Make the garland to fit your own home and in your preferred weight of yarn, so your sizing will reflect this. Sizes and yardage in the pattern are for DK yarn.

Tension: 24 sts x 32 rows = 10cm/4” measured over st st.

Working method: Most ornaments are knitted in the round in the manner of a toe-up sock, using a double sided cast on and paired side incs and decs for shaping. Embroidered details, button and pipe cleaner embellishments are added afterwards. The candy cane is made as i-cord with a pipe cleaner inside to shape it.
The garland is made of three strands of i-cord and the ornaments can be stitched on (or given ribbon ties enabling them to be fastened on).

Finished measurements
Garland length: 1.5m” / 59” or work to desired size
Bell: Height 8.5cm/ 3 ¼”; Width 7cm/ 2 ¾”
Mini Bows: Height 2.5cm/1”; Width 5cm/2”
Candy cane: Height 8cm/3 ¼”; Width 3cm
Gingerbread house: Height 8.5cm/3 ¼”; Width 6cm/2 ½”
Christmas trees: Height 8.5cm/3 ¼”;; Width 7cm/2 ¾”
Teardrop bauble: Height 9cm/3 ½”; Width 5cm/2”
Gingerbread adults: Height 12cm/5”; Torso 6cm/2 ½”
Gingerbread children: 9cm/3 ½”; Torso 4cm/1 ¾”
Reindeer head: Height 8.5cm/ 3 ¼”; Width 7cm/ 2 ¾”

Requirements
- 1 ball each of 5 colours Paintbox Yarns Cotton DK – DK: 125m/137yds per 50g/1.8 oz ball; 100% cotton or your choice of yarn
Sample in: Paper white 401 (C1); Glorious Gold 466 (C2); Coffee Bean 411 (C3); Red wine 416 (C4); Slate Green 427(C5);

• Needles: 3.5mm / US size: 4 for working in the round
• Yarn needle, sewing needle, thread and scissors
• Buttons:1 red 10mm/3/8”; 2 black 8mm/ ¼”;1 brown 15mm/5/8”
• 1 white and 1 beige 20 cm/8” pipe cleaner
• Optional: i-cord device if you don’t want to handknit the i-cord; 2 stitch markers for those using a circular needle instead of DPNs

I sometimes add extra resources for my patterns, e.g. yarn substitutions, adaptations, styling suggestions or helpful video clips as updates on my original blog post for the release, so consider checking it out here: https://www.madewithloveandfibres.com/post/charmed-garlan...

eBook published in June 2024 by Made with Love and Fibres

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