Loom Knit Pumpkin Pattern

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This loom knit pumpkin is quick and easy to knit and is a great pattern for learning how to loom knit.

Materials

Of course to make a loom knit pumpkin you need a knitting loom. You can make a pumpkin with any size round knitting loom you have on hand to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one is 15.5 inches/almost 40 cm around the outside of the loom.

You’ll also need yarn. These knitting looms work best with chunky (bulky/weight 5) yarn. You can also use worsted/medium/weight 4 yarn but it makes bigger stitches, which isn’t ideal for something you’re going to stuff. In the tutorial I’m using worsted weight yarn (Red Heart Super Saver in color pumpkin) held double. For the size pumpkin I made you’ll need about 48 yards total holding double.

The other pumpkin shown was made with a small amount of some archaically old bulky weight fleece yarn.

For the stems I used a tiny bit, probably less than a yard each, of some super bulky yarn (Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in color Hudson Bay, left over from my knit vest).

Knitting looms come with these little hooks you can use to work the stitches. If you don’t have one handy you can use a small crochet hook, or just your fingers.

In addition you’ll need something to stuff your pumpkins with (I use random scraps and yarn ends, and these also have the threads from when I took apart a pair of jeans), a small pair of scissors and a yarn needle.

Sizes

The little fleece pumpkin is a little more than 10 inches/25.4 cm around and about 3 inches/7.6 cm tall.

The larger pumpkin is a little more than 13 inches/33 cm around and about 4 inches/10 cm tall.

You size of your loom knit pumpkin will depend on the size of yarn you use, how many rounds you knit and how much you stuff it.

How to Make a Loom Knit Pumpkin

If you want to work with two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, make sure you have two separate balls. Hold the yarn ends together and make a slip knot to place around the ending peg to hold the yarn and mark the end of the round.

If you’re only using one strand you can either do a slip knot or just wrap the yarn around the peg before you start.

Starting with the peg either just above or to the right of the sideways peg, wrap the yarn up around the back of the peg, around to the front and back to the back in a clockwise motion around the peg.

Move to the next peg to the right and repeat. Yarn is wrapped clockwise throughout and you’re moving the knitting loom counter clockwise (or to the right) as you go.

Continue until all the pegs have been wrapped.

Then do the exact same thing again, wrapping each peg from back to front to back around, until every peg has two stitches. Push down the original stitches if you need to so that the second stitches are at the top of each peg.

Use your tool or your fingers and, starting with the first stitch you wrapped, pull the bottom stitch up and over the top stitch and off the top of the peg.

If you’re working with two strands held together, make sure you grab both strands.

Continue this all the way around until there’s one stitch on each peg again.

Push the stitches down to the bottoms of the pegs and wrap each peg again as before and work the stitches in the same way.

Repeat this process as many times as you like for the size of pumpkin you want. After a couple of rounds you can release the yarn end from the peg on the side.

The smaller pumpkin I worked until I was about to run out of yarn; it is 16 rounds. The larger one is 20 rounds.

Finishing Your Pumpkin

Cut your yarn(s) leaving a long tail, and thread onto a yarn needle.

Going around in the same direction as usual, pick up each stitch and slide them onto the needle and then down onto the yarn.

Once you have them all, pull tight.

I like to go through all the stitches one more time and pull again to close up the hole as best I can.

Take the yarn ends through the center of the hole and up into the inside of the pumpkin. You can just leave the ends without cutting or weaving them in.

Stuff your pumpkin with Fiber-fil, yarn ends from other projects, bits of old fabric or whatever you have handy, until it is stuffed to the level you think is good.

Using the tail at the beginning of the work or a new piece of yarn, thread the yarn needle and weave in and out of the stitches on the first round of the project.

Pull a little tight to see how it’s looking and adjust the stuffing as needed. When you’re happy, pull tight.

Take the needle through the hole at the center of the top and out one of the sides. Trim any excess yarn.

Knitting The Stem

I gave my loom knit pumpkin a little knit cord stem, which you can also make on the knitting loom.

Start by wrapping three pegs as above.

Then take the yarn straight across in front of the pegs that have been wrapped.

Take each stitch up and over the yarn and off the peg. It doesn’t really matter what order you go in.

Take the yarn across the front of the stitches again.

Repeat for as many rows as you like. I did six here.

To finish, take a stitch from one side and put it on the center peg.

Then bring the bottom stitch up and over the top stitch. Repeat with the stitch on the other side.

Take the yarn in front of this last stitch and make one more stitch, then remove it from the peg.

Pull the yarn through to fasten off.

Pull on both ends of the yarn/cord to make it look more like knit cord.

I used the yarn needle to thread each yarn end down the center hole on the side I decided was the top of the pumpkin. This makes the stem shorter. Alternatively you can just stick one end of the yarn through the pumpkin and weave in the end on the other side to keep the stem as tall as your cord is.