Free Winter Snowball Knitting Pattern

It's only the beginning of November and the snow has been falling on southern Ontario most of the weekend!!  We already have 2 inches and fluffy flakes are falling again!!

After a weekend of snowiness, it seems like a great night to stay in and work on my little blog!!

Upon returning to Red Mitten Designs after several unplanned months of hiatus I decided that the blog needed a face-lift.  Now, to be clear, I'm not a "coder" (is that even the right term?)  In other words, if it isn't fairly straight forward, with simple step-by-step instructions I don't know much about technology.

When I went in and changed my blog "theme" I ended up messing up half of my blog posts and losing one or two others!










Long story short, I'm still in the process of cleaning up the blog.

In the spirit of clean up and, since it's a cold and snowy night, I am re-posting a tidied up version of my Winter Snowballs pattern (you can see the original HERE - it's really not that bad, I just can't seem to fix the word vs background colour problem!)

It needed new pictures anyway!!  And aren't they beautiful!!

This ended up being a very popular product at my consignment store "Little Treasures."  I dropped off the product and within 24 hours had a request to restock!!  So while I am restocking it's the perfect time to check over the pattern and take pretty pics!

Are we ready for it?!

On to the pattern!!







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Winter Snowball
       ~by Ruth Windover

image (c) Ruth Windover

skill level
easy

size
approximately 3 x 3 inches

needles & notions
5mm double pointed
tapestry needle

yarns used in images
Bernat Pipsqueak whitey white
Luv Gentle Joy Baby Blanket blue

fibers
polyester fiberfill (stuffing)

gauge
it's fuzzy yarn, it's forgiving!




pattern
c/o 6 sts

place marker and join to work in the round

Rnd 1:   KFB all sts (12)


Rnd 2 & even til rnd 10:   knit


Rnd 3:   *KFB.  K1.  rep from * around (18)







Rnd 5:   *KFB.  K2.  rep from * around (24)

Rnd 7:   *KFB.  K3.  rep from * around (30)

Rnd 9:   *KFB.  K4.  rep from * around (36)

Rnd 11:   *KFB.  K5.  rep from * around (42)


weave in starting tail at this stage

Rnd 12 - 14:   knit


Rnd 15:   *k2tog.  K5.  rep from * around (36)


Rnd 16 & even til rnd 22:   knit


Rnd 17:   *k2tog.  K4.  rep from * around (30)

Rnd 19:   *k2tog.  K3.  rep from * around (24)

Rnd 21:   *k2tog.  K2.  rep from * around (18)

Rnd 23:   *k2tog.  K1.  rep from * around (12)

stuff the snowball plumply at this stage

Rnd 24:   *k2tog around (6)

Cut yarn & pull tail through remaining live sts.  Weave in end

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DO NOT claim this pattern as your own.  You can always write your own!  You can do it!  I know you can!!  All photo's copyright Ruth Windover and Red Mitten Designs (do not use without permission).  Once again, thank you for choosing a Red Mitten Designs pattern!  Enjoy!!