18 New Knitting Patterns You Won't Want to Miss ¦ October 2026

Hello, my name is Amber and welcome back to a lovely yarn podcast. I hope you're all finding a little bit of time to enjoy your knitting no matter where you're located in the world. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are settling into fall and so today I wanted to do an October pattern roundup featuring all new patterns that have just been released this month, which is October of 2026. There is a wide variety of patterns included in this pattern roundup and there are also some really cute and fun color work fall inspired projects. So whether you're knitting along with the changing leaves outside on the trees or you're heading into your spring season, I hope that you can all find one or two new patterns to add to your knitting queue. So let's take a look at what's new in the knitting world on Ravelry this month. Okay everyone I am so excited for this episode. I have a whole Ravelry bundle here. There's like I think 18 patterns that I have chosen. There have been some really good new releases that are very much fall inspired, just cozy and scrumptious. So I'm really excited to share those with you. Before we get started on that I do want to mention what I'm wearing I will try to put in a clip actually like a full on video so you can see it but this is called the Gloam Cardigan and it is a pattern by Caitlin Hunter I knit this several years ago maybe in 2022 or 2023 and I cannot for the life of me remember what yarn I used and this was back in the days before I wrote things down so I think it might have been a the Juniper Moon organic merino or something like that i will try to look back into the youtube archives and see if i can find a video where i talked about this one but uh yeah i can't guarantee i'll be able to find that information for you but this is a great uh it's a great short sleeved cardigan perfect for those of us who are just run a little bit warm all right we're going to just jump right in with this episode and we're going to start with accessories and then we will move our way through into larger projects like garments. So the pattern I first want to talk about is called the Kathy Kerchief and this is a pattern by Alicia Plumer. I actually really fell in love with this pattern when I saw Alicia talk about it on her Instagram feed. I think it was like a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it wasn't even that long at this point, but this is a DK weight neck kerchief or head kerchief or it's it's a very small so to me it looks like you'd only be able to tie it once in the back so wear the point in the front and tie it in the back or you could wear it I saw that some people actually wore it as a head kerchief and I also noticed that there were a variety of projects some knit in wool based yarns as well as some knit in plant based yarn so you could go either way with this now she did write in the description of this that it is pointelle inspired but instead of having the little eyelets she actually incorporated tiny little cute bobbles okay the next pattern that i want to talk about is actually part of a collection this is a collection of three different pattern types you do have to purchase each of these patterns individually but this is called the pick your potion collection and this collection was designed by Virginia Sattler Reimer or Reimer I'm not sure how she pronounces her last name but it is a stranded color work collection I first found the cowl on Ravelry when I was doing research for this project and I really love the look of it it does use six different colors of worsted weight yarn but you're only using at the most two at a time as far as I can see when I was reading the project page so that should keep it simple it but um it is just a simple cowl with the color work in between two ribbed edges and then also there is a pattern for mitts as well as a pattern for a hat so you could basically buy the yarn and make three different patterns with it i think that you would probably have enough yarn if you just she might even give i think she actually gives information on how to have enough yarn to make all three projects using the yarn that she recommends. I haven't really been a big shawl knitter as of late because I do have so many shawls that I have knit in the past but I think this new release from Jennifer Wiseman is really beautiful. It is called the Ocean Dunes shawl and it is a side to side shawl meaning it's knit from one point to the next and i think it's really beautiful it has like the undulating wave looking designs in it it uses about 500 yards of dk weight yarn and she includes optional charts as well as the pattern being completely written out like so you have written instructions and then optional charts that you can also refer to so this motif is achieved using lace some lace work slip stitches and then there's also an I-cord edge that is worked as you go along and it is as I said a side to side knit which is one of my favorites. I really like the look of it. I'll put a picture in here. I love the look of it when it's wrapped around twice and knotted in the front. I think that looks super cute with those points. This next pattern is by Zanette Knits and it is a colorwork beanie. It's called the Encore Beanie. It is a worsted weight stranded colorwork hat. the size range on this pattern is great it's six sizes from baby up to adult large and this hat is worked top down and just has a really pretty color work during a color work section and when I was looking through the different project pages I noticed that some people got really creative and how many colors they use some just stuck to like two colors so I feel like you can really get creative with this and maybe even use like color shifting yarn through that color work section or a hand spun as well okay i actually purchased this next pattern it is called the cottage pumpkin patch set and this is a pattern by stone knits i saw her talk about this on youtube and i think maybe her most recent youtube episode if i find it i will link it down below but it is the cutest set of socks colorwork socks now i have talked about my love hate relationship with colorwork socks I love color work but on socks I've always had a problem with getting them to fit over my heel now I will say that these last pair of color work socks that I just recently knit I was encouraged by many of my viewers to try knitting them inside out so I did that and let me tell you I had no problem at all getting that second sock up over my heel I was so excited I felt like my world was opened up and so I immediately got onto Ravelry and I purchased this pattern from Charlotte Stone. Now this pattern actually comes with three different options for the pumpkin motif and the color work charts. There's two different pumpkin motifs and then she also gives a third chart that is for a jack-o'-lantern pumpkin so that's really cute if you want to do something for like Halloween or if you just want to stick to the fall theme you can just knit yourself some pumpkins now because it is mid-October already I plan on actually making these just a very fall inspired pair and I'm going to make them a little bit shorter than I normally would because it is mid-October I want to make these though for Thanksgiving because pumpkin pie pumpkins all of that and so that's my plan I'm going to knit myself a pair of these with the pumpkin motif and I just am so looking forward to this I'm already thinking about my yarn choices And so I definitely wanted to include this pattern in the roundup. I have two more really cute Colorwork socks that I want to share with you guys And the next one is called the quilt block sock set and this is by kelly spurlock So this is a fingering weight. All of these actually are fingering weight sock patterns. This one is knit Cuffed down and then you use a she wrote forethought slash afterthought heel And she provides video tutorials for that if you've never done that before I recently just did a forethought heel for the very first time and it was not hard at all. It opened up my world in sock knitting again. So this, this pattern actually includes six different charts that you can use to mix and match your color work. So isn't that fun? And then it also comes in six different sizes from toddler to men's large. So this is another really fun color work sock pattern and then we have another one that's a new release from Annia Juti I hope I'm not mispronouncing her name that there's a good possibility I am though these are called the Folk Flora socks and this pattern comes in three different sizes I'm assuming all adult sizes and they are cuffed down with a really cute picot folded edge they also have a heel flap and gusset and then a star toe and there is a coupon code that offers 20% off on the purchase of this she has that written on the Ravelry project page and that that is good you can go there if you're interested in purchasing and using that coupon code I'm not going to give the code here on this video but that code is good through the end of November so you still have lots of time as of today all right at this point we're going to move away from accessories and we're going to move into garments and the first one that I want to talk about is a poncho now ponchos must be coming back I am personally not a huge poncho fan but my daughter started talking about wanting a knitted poncho and then I started seeing things online about people crocheting and knitting themselves ponchos so they must be back my favorite things knitwear released a poncho pattern this month. It is called the Norma poncho. It is a big cozy oversized poncho with fringe. It uses Aran weight yarn and size US 6 or 4 millimeter needles and you need about 630 to 850 yards of yarn to make this. It comes in five different sizes. I like the high collar on it and then I also really love the fringe at the bottom. It's very reminiscent of the 70s I think. I feel like all ponchos are very reminiscent of the 70s for some reason but uh yeah i wanted to include this one because i know that ponchos are a thing now they're coming back so i wanted to include one of those on this list okay our first pullover is a new pattern by Tori U, it's called the Rhinebeck Raglan, this is an all-over textured sweater which i love the look of it, it looks very scrumptiously soft and squishy, it is um it's made using worsted weight yarn and it comes in nine different sizes from 34 inch bust up to 66 inch bust, it is knit top down using a compound raglan and then it also has pretty strong raglan lines which is another nice feature of it it also has a folded collar and um yeah i think that's it on this one, i just really like that nice all-over texture of this pullover if you want an autumn specific whimsical sweater then i have one for you, this is called the Pumpkin Patch and this is a pattern by Renarde and Dormy it is knit with worsted weight yarn and it comes in 11 sizes from 31 and a half up to 59 inch bust it is knit top down, you can include optional German short row shaping in it and it has this cute stranded colorwork pumpkin patch motif that I just absolutely love I feel like if I was a faster sweater knitter, I'm not, I don't think I'm very fast at knitting sweaters but if I was I would for sure knit this because I would I think it would be so fun to have this sweater to wear in October and November I just love the little pumpkin motif, it's extremely cute and she does oh another nice little feature is that there's some matching color work you do down at the sleeves before you start the ribbing and then she also includes instructions for two different lengths the cropped length as well as a more classic length okay then we have the Daydreamer sweater series by Sara Nordlund and i say it's a sweater series because she has written and released this month a pattern for both a pullover as well as a cardigan both of these are knit with DK weight yarn. They both have a more boxy fit. The pullover has drop shoulder and a folded neck band and then both of these sweaters are all over lace. They have an all over lace motif which is fully charted. I do remember I think watching a podcast episode put out by Sunshine Stitching Studio or it might have been on Instagram. I can't remember now that memory is a little bit fuzzy but it was maybe earlier in the summer and I remember this particular designer talking about this jumper that was currently in the works and it is out now it is called the Hawthorne jumper it is a DK weight sweater it is top down comes in seven different sizes you're doing the back and front separately and then you join in the round under the arms and then the rest is done in the round and it's an all over diamond texture and it has a split hem and I actually really like the silhouette of this. It's more of like a boxy and cropped and then it also looks like the sleeves are a bit more full or balloonish and I really really like that as well. I added this next cardigan to my Ravelry favorites like the moment I saw it released. I think it was actually the first one for me to move to this particular bundle and this is the home body this is a cardigan by alicia plumer this almost looks like a hybrid between a cardigan and a jacket to me i like the stand-up collar i like all the like the buttons down the front it is knit in dk weight yarn and her sizing is extremely i think it's very inclusive it's 38 inches up to an 82 inch bust it is not it is knit bottom up and it has a modified drop sleeve and then there's options for different pockets they're all done i believe it's after afterthought pockets okay we've got two patterns left both of them are colorwork sweaters the first one is called the Mulan sweater and this pattern is by cat sejod green it is a worsted weight stranded colorwork i almost want to say it's all over colorwork but there's like a little tiny band on both the body and the sleeves that is just solid stockinette in your main color but it's mostly all over colorwork and it is absolutely gorgeous. So it's actually inspired by the mullein flower which here in western Pennsylvania we have a lot of mullein along our trails and such in the summertime and I can totally get that vibe from looking at the colorwork totally looks like a mullein flower so this is knit top down with the circular yoke of course it does have some short row shaping and it comes in nine sizes also very generously sized from 33 inches the whole way up to 71 inches okay and then the last pattern is called the Vigna sweater this is a pattern by Olga Patana Designs and it is another worsted weight stranded color work yoked sweater. It comes in 10 sizes 32 inch to 68 inch bust and it is also a top down stranded color work sweater and it also has short row shaping. She does not say what inspired this color work but it is very botanical looking in my opinion if you look at the actual colorwork section of the sweater which I am very drawn to botanical color work. That brings us to the end of this month's pattern roundup. I love doing these because I love seeing all the new designs that designers are coming up with and releasing out into the knitting world. So leave me a comment down below and tell me which of these patterns you really like, which one caught your eye. Speaking of comments and in celebration of sweater season arriving, I want to give away a pattern to one of you. So all you need to do to be eligible for this giveaway is to leave a comment down below telling me which which of these patterns is your favorite or what you plan on casting on next also please give this video a thumbs up and also i'd ask that you would be a subscriber to my channel if you're going to enter this giveaway on my next podcast episode i will share the winner of the giveaway and that person will be able to pick any pattern that they desire from Ravelry as long as it is 12 US dollars or less so thank you for spending your time with me today Again, I hope you found some goodies for your knitting queue and until next time, enjoy your knitting and I will see you in the next video. Goodbye.