A Week of Spooky Baubles

**A Week of Spooky Baubles** features 7 quick and satisfying projects perfect for showing your Halloween spirit. The set includes one striped, one textured, one cabled, and four stranded designs. I knit my samples using Marianated Yarns Practicality, a light fingering workhorse sock yarn. **Day 1** is a striped cozy designed as your swatch project. For best results, start here. If your stitch or row gauge is off—or if you don’t love the resulting fabric—adjust your needle size before knitting the remaining covers. **Day 2** kicks off the spellcasting with a jaunty witch’s hat, worked in stranded colorwork. **Day 3** continues the strandwork with an essential spell component: eye of newt. **Day 4** introduces texture to your potion with a tactile bauble representing another key ingredient. **Day 5** brings wing of bat into the mix—because no proper spell is complete without it. **Day 6** features cable spiders, which are surprisingly fun to knit (and less creepy than they sound). **Day 7** stirs it all together in the cauldron for a final flourish of Halloween magic. These bauble covers are designed to fit a 2.63" / 67 mm diameter plastic ornament. For a few rounds, you will be creating your stitches with the plastic bauble nestled inside the knitted fabric. For your safety, **please do not use a glass ornament to create this project!** **Techniques Used:** German twisted cast on Small diameter knitting and purling in the round Five stitch cables Stranded knitting Knit increases and decreases Bobbles **Materials Needed:** Yarn: 35-45 yards of light fingering weight yarn per cozy Samples knit in Marianated Yarns Practicality sock yarn (75% superwash merino, 25% nylon) Needles: US 1 / 2.25 mm DPNs or 32” / 81 cm circular needle or size needed to achieve gauge Notions and additional materials: Removable stitch marker and optional extra markers for marking pattern repeats Tapestry needle 7 plastic ornaments, 2.63" / 67 mm diameter (8.25” / 210 mm circumference) **Finished Measurements:** Fits a 2.63" / 67 mm diameter plastic ornament with negative ease. Gauge: 17 sts and 26 rounds over 2”/ 5 cm in stockinette in the round. *This pattern has been professionally tech edited and test knit. If you find a mistake, need pattern support, or are interested in private knitting lessons/tutoring please write to info@theknittingtutor.net.* [Here’s a link to sign up for my newsletter!][1] Subscribers get the very best discounts on patterns and are the first to learn about test knit opportunities. [1]: https://theknittingtutor.kit.com/7454aea609