Easy Little Pride Flag Knitting Patterns

We’re coming up on the end of Pride month, but Pride is every day, all the time, and crafting for Pride doesn’t have to be limited to a particular month of the calendar.

Knit Picks recently released on its Instagram page a collection of little Pride flags, with all the instructions and color charts to make a bunch of different offerings. You can use this design to make the traditional rainbow striped flag, of course, but there’s also a chart for the Progress flag.

There are also charts for the demiromantic/demisexual flag and the intersex flag. Other flags just have stripes but the pattern shows the layout for a variety of flags, including:

lesbian
gay men
bisexual
trans
pansexual
nonbinary
aromantic
agender
asexual

The pattern for the flags is included in the post. Each flag is just 24 stitches wide, so you can make one or a bunch in no time. It suggests using Knit Picks Palette yarn held double, or you can use a DK or worsted weight yarn. Whatever you have in the right colors will work.

The original pattern uses size 6 US (4mm) knitting needles, but you can adjust as needed for the particular yarn you are using. This of course may alter the size of your finished flag, but bigger and smaller flags are cute, too. (As written the flag should come out to about 4.5 by 3.5 inches, but gauge isn’t critical.)

Looking for more knits to show your pride? Check out my collection of rainbow knitting patterns that are great for Pride or any other time of year. (Actually I did one last year, too, so check out even more rainbow patterns here.)

Thanks, Knit Picks, for being awesome all year long and providing yarn in a rainbow of colors for all our stitching needs.

[Photo: Knit Picks, via Instagram]

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I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come.

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards.

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

get well soon
happy birthday
thank you
thinking of you
congratulations
anniversary
new home
good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total).

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like.

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered.

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try.

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]

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