Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Issue 409: Happy Wednesday! What is on your needles?

• Posted on 17 September 2025
• By Sue
• Posted in Fall Knitting, knitting inspiration, September 2025, sweater weather
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Just a few days and it will officially be fall! Already it is dark sooner and weather that has not made up its mind whether it is still summer or fall! Perfect weather to stay in and knit or make something though! What do you have on your needles?

I don't think it is too early to think Halloween either but here are some fall-themed knits! 

The Pepo Pumpkin Patch by Sandra Magalhães is an adorable pattern that will help you knit the most beautiful pumpkins for the Autumn season!

The instructions are available in the round and flat so you can make it as you prefer.
And there’s a video tutorial to help you shape and finish your pumpkin!!

Sizes 
approx. diameter of 8, 11, 14 cm / 3,25”, 4,25”, 5,5” or made to measure

Yarn 
Worsted weight but you can use any yarn of your choice
Small: +/- 30m
Medium: +/- 60m
Large: +/- 90m

Needles 
4.0 mm (US 6) or any needle size to match your yarn

Suggested Yarn 
Estelle Eco Tweed Worsted or Autumn Pumpkin Kits - Kit includes a copy of pattern (pages 1-5), 50g of Estelle Eco Tweed Worsted in 3 colours

The Ghost Knitter's Shawl by Ambah O'Brien is a deep triangular shawl edged with delicate lace featuring a skull motif that is perfect for Halloween, autumn and beyond. It is fun to knit with an easy-to-wear shape that can be styled a number of ways. Worked top-down, the shawl begins with a garter stitch section that can be worked as stripes. Or you may choose to omit the stripes and work yours in a gradient, either a single skein or fading mini skeins which then flow into the ghost lace.

The pattern includes both written and charted instructions for the lace section.

Dimensions 
Wingspan: 90”/225 cm
Depth: 27”/67.5 cm
Measurements taken after blocking.

Yarn 
Fingering weight/light sport weight
Stripe (Gradient) Version
C1: 650 (850) yd/595 (778) m
C2: 200 (NA) yd/183 (NA) m

Needles 
3.75 mm (US 5) long circular needle to hold a large number of stitches (shawl is worked flat), or size required to obtain gauge

Gauge 
20 sts and 32 rows = 4”/10 cm in Garter stitch, blocked
21 sts and 34 rows = 4”/10 cm in Ghost Lace, blocked
Gauge is not crucial for this project, but variations will affect yardage and final measurements.

Suggested Yarn 
SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock in Harvest or in Semi-Solids in Pumpkin and Lichen and Lace 80/20 Sock in Natural

Broom Riders by Tiny Owl Knits are made for keeping your legs warm during midnight broom runs under the full moon.

Sizes: Knitted to your foot length, three calf sizes are provided: Small 13”, Medium, 15” and Large, 17”. Most
people are between sizes. If so, choose smaller size.

Finished measurements measured flat:
Socks go just over the knee. Sample is 22” from heel.
Width after toes is 3.5”. Width at calf is 4.5, 5.5 or 6.5”
Quite a bit of negative ease is included in the calf sizing to allow for a tighter fit.

Yarns used: fingering weight yarn such as:
Koigu KPM, 50g - 175yds - 160m, 100% Merino Wool.
MC: Color # 2420 Black (ish) - 2 skeins.
CC1: Color # 0000 Whitish-Cream - 2 skeins.

Tension/gauge:
Work 32 sts and 45 rows to measure 4x4” in St stitch
using US 2 or 2.75mm needles. Use needles necessary
to get gauge.

Notions:
A set of 2.75 mm (US 2) dpns or size needed to get gauge, stitch markers, tapestry needle.

Boneyard Sweethearts by Stephanie Lotven (@tellybeanknits) has skeletons joining hands in friendship to celebrate her favourite season. Combining the macabre with the sweet, this hat is spine-chilling, fun and downright humerus. Happy Halloween!

Boneyard Sweethearts is knit seamlessly in the round from the bottom up. This is a stranded colorwork design. This pattern is charted. It includes a chart for skeletons with ghosts OR skeletons with hearts. Pick your poison.

Sizes 
Adult S (M, L)

Yarn 
FINGERING weight yarn
C1: 50 (55, 60) yds / 46 (50, 55)m (pink)
C2: 105 (115, 120) yds / 96 (105, 110) m (dark blue)
C3: 65 (70, 75) yds / 60 (64, 69) m (white)

NOTE: These yardages do not include the pom pom. You will need an additional 35 yards / 32 meters of yarn to create your pom pom.

Finished Dimensions 
Circumference: 18.25 (20.5, 22.75) inches / 46.5 (52, 58)cm
Total Length: 9.75 (9.75, 9.75) inches / 25 (25, 25)cm

Needles 
2.25 mm (US 1) & 2.75 mm (US 2) 16-inch (40cm) circular or as required to meet gauge and DPNs on larger size

GAUGE
28 sts & 32 rounds = 4 inches 10cm in colorwork motif in the round after blocking on LARGER needles

If you want a matching sweater that is not just for Halloween but also for winter, look no farther than the Boneyard Sweethearts Sweater by Stephanie Lotven.

Suggested Yarn 
Koigu KPM, Hikoo Madrona, CoopKnits Socks Yeah!, Garnstudio Drops Flora

FOs and WIPs

Last week, I said I did not like the gauge on my double knit bands using the 3.0 mm instead of the 4.0 mm and was thinking of changing my needle tips and the double pointed needle that I was using to 3.5 mm and to start frogging back at least to the last button holes.

In the end, I frogged the bands back all the way to the start of the first buttonhole and re-knit them using 3.75 mm needles. The gauge looks so much better this way with the stitches closer to the body gauge and not smaller than the ribbing gauge.

The front bands on my second Step by Step Cardigan by Florence Miller are finished now! I just need to sew in all of ends, decide what buttons to use and to block iy.

I used less than 2.5 balls of the Noro Kompeito so I could have easily knit the ribbing and pockets longer before binding off and knitting the front bands. I used about 85g of mohair.

KNIT GROUP AND GALLERY

Stefani knit this stunning modified Cirrus by Nancy O’Connell with an allover textured pattern. She told us that she has knit many of these, each with its own modification.

Yanhong (CaptainMocha) has found stranded colourwork so addictive! Pattern is Spooktacular by Stone Knits from her Joyful Colorwork Socks book.

Jennifer brought this sweet Twilla bonnet by Johanna Paasila knit using Drops Baby Merino to show me! Isn’t it cute? She is making a matching vest (no pattern) and needed to get more yarn.

Sandi (sandima) signed up for the Pigskin Party 2025 running during football season. Her second cast on was this hat knit using jester yarn she has had in her stash. Like most of the hats she knits, it will be donated.

Sandi (sandima) knit this Study in Cats, Part 1 by Hook Mountain Handmade as her 7th Pigskin Party 2025 project.

Sandi (sandima) knit this Latvian Team Hat 2018 by Lisa McFetridge.

Kay (83krobbins) finished Gnewt’s big brother. 

Pattern is Leave Gnome Stone Unturned by Sarah Schira.

Emma (emmlaporte) knits this Ellen's Cardigan by PetiteKnit using Garnstidio Drops Merino Extra Fine.

Emma (emmlaporte) knits this Ingrid Sweater Baby by PetiteKnit using Garnstudio Drops Merino Extra Fine.

Emma (emmlaporte) also knit this Ellen's Coming Home Set by PetiteKnit.

Emma (emmlaporte) knit this Inclinations Cowl by Andrea Mowry using Koigu Pencil Box stash as her colour B.

Happy Wednesday, Happy Knitting, Crocheting and Crafting!