Use this easy, colourful striped unicorn knitting pattern PDF to make Aurora. Children love mythical creatures that they have been told or read about. This project is bright and colourful and would make any young child happy!
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Where Do You Get this Unicorn Knitting Pattern?
You can get the instructions to make this knitted unicorn for a small investment – just click the image of it to go to the website.
When made up, the toy will be around 22cm tall. What is good about this design is that it is suitable for beginner knitters to make up. You knit the unicorn from flat pieces that are created on single straight needles, so no worries about using circulars.
What Yarn is Needed?
This mythical creature is made from double knitting weight yarn – something like the Paintbox Simply DK range will be just fine.
The colours used in this design are
- paperwhite
- spearmint green
- bubblegum pink
- raspberry pink
- Kingfisher blue and
- buttercup yellow
If you have enough in your stash of DK yarn you can make a personalised version.
Needles Size?
3.5mm (US 4) Single pointed straight knitting needles are used for this project.
What Else Do You Need?
- Some soft toy filling for knitted toys
- Tapestry needle to sew up the pieces
Knitting Stitches You Need To Know How to Do
Only basic knitting knowledge is required –
- how to cast on and off
- how to knit and purl
- how to increase by knitting into the front and back of a stitch
- how to decrease by knitting 2 stitches together
If you are not sure of these knitting skills or need to refresh your memory, take a look at the Learn to Knit section here
