What New Year’s Souvenirs Can Be Crocheted or Knitted With Your Own Hands?

In the mod­ern world, man­u­al cre­ativ­i­ty has become fash­ion­able. The his­to­ry of knit­ting begins in the 3rd cen­tu­ry AD. This tra­di­tion is passed down from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion. It is remark­able that among young peo­ple this kind of cre­ativ­i­ty devel­ops and flour­ish­es.

Every­one knows the crazy shop­ping on the eve of the New Year. Hov­er, if you have min­i­mal skills, you can try and make New Year’s sou­venirs with your own hands. These prod­ucts are exclu­sive, keep warm hands, pos­i­tive ener­gy. Undoubt­ed­ly, knit­ted gifts for the New Year will make it cozy, joy­ful.

Knit­ted things look ele­gant on chil­dren of any age. Dress­es, suits, socks, hats, blous­es can be cro­cheted or knit­ted. A soft bright toy will be a won­der­ful gift.

There is no lim­it to the fan­tasies of hand knit­ting craftswomen. Here are the baby items you will always need:

• seam­less socks on two knit­ting nee­dles;
• bolero for girls;
• top for girls;
• lace skirt for girls;
• vest for a boy;
• booties;
• hat for a new­born
• enve­lope for a new­born;
• snud;
• scarf;
• toys: fox, rac­coon, goose and oth­ers.

Noth­ing will warm the baby like hand-knit­ted things. If the moment of the birth of the baby fell on the New Year, then in knit­ting you can use the sym­bols of the New Year. Basi­cal­ly, this is embroi­dery of New Year’s ele­ments: Christ­mas trees, deer, San­ta Claus, snow­men.

Joy­ful New Year’s gifts for chil­dren 3–4 years old — cro­chet ani­mals. You can link the sym­bol of the year, but, in gen­er­al, kids will be hap­py with any ani­mals. Old­er kids will appre­ci­ate cro­chet cov­er for a book, tablet, phone case or knit­ted key­chain.

Mom for the New Year you can give plaid with stripes or with a “grand­moth­er’s” squarecro­cheted or knit­ted. Open­work shawl cro­chet will also be a won­der­ful gift. Father will always need knit­ted mit­tens, gloves, slip­pers. An orig­i­nal gift for par­ents for the New Year will be a cro­cheted warmer for a teapot in the form of a snail, you can also tie warm­ers into mugs.

You can give your spouse for the hol­i­day a warm woolen sater or a sports hat, knit­ted with your own hands. The sur­prise will be an inti­mate gift — cro­chet box­ers. There are many ideas of such box­ers on the Inter­net.

Col­leagues can please relat­ed Christ­mas tree dec­o­ra­tions. Small sou­venirs: deer, snow­men, San­ta Claus are tra­di­tion­al sym­bols of the New Year. Snowflakes, tan­ger­ines, boots, angels will come in handy for the New Year hol­i­day. Such gifts will bring warmth and joy to rela­tions with col­leagues.

To take on the man­u­fac­ture of a New Year’s gift with your own hands cro­chet, begin­ners should learn the tech­nique of knit­ting a vari­ety of pat­terns. The tech­nique is sim­ple, even a child can mas­ter it. It does not take a lot of time. And then you can already start knit­ting snoods, scarves, booties. With each result­ing thing, skill will grow, the desire to sur­prise rel­a­tives and friends.

Also, knit­ting can inter­est, cap­ti­vate. Hav­ing stud­ied sim­ple pat­terns, you can knit an elas­tic band for hair. Hav­ing mas­tered the knit­ting tech­nique of the pat­tern you like, you can start knit­ting vests, socks, mit­tens.

Of course, hand­made New Year’s sou­venirs should be neat and nec­es­sary. Gifts for chil­dren need to be con­sid­ered care­ful­ly. If these are things, then they should be as com­fort­able as pos­si­ble, not prick­ly. It is bet­ter to use hypoal­ler­genic yarn for knit­ting. Such yarn as cot­ton, vis­cose, silk, high qual­i­ty acrylic will appeal to the baby. Warm clothes are best knit­ted from meri­no wool or alpaca wool. In no case do not use mohair, ango­ra wool, polyamide, lurex for chil­dren’s clothes.

Check­ing wool for nat­u­ral­ness is sim­ple: when set on fire, nat­ur­al wool burns with ash­es, and arti­fi­cial wool turns into a plas­tic ball. You can also check the yarn for com­fort by run­ning a ball over your lips. On the lips, the skin is sen­si­tive, it imme­di­ate­ly reacts to prick­ly­ness, dis­com­fort.

Do-it-your­self sou­venirs will delight rel­a­tives and col­leagues. But at work, you should not give friends inti­mate knit­ted gifts. You can also not guess with the size of hats, mit­tens, socks. There­fore, it is bet­ter for col­leagues to give ele­ments of New Year’s decor:

• open­work cro­cheted nap­kins;
• sou­venirs in the form of ani­mals — sym­bols of the year;
• Christ­mas tree toys;
• knit­ted Christ­mas trees in pots;
• knit­ted planter.

Learn­ing to knit or cro­chet is easy if you have a burn­ing desire and patience. Of course, this will take time at the begin­ning of the train­ing. Then, with a cer­tain skill, the thing can be knit­ted in 3–4 days. It depends on the indi­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics of the per­son, the lev­el of skill. Small toys can be made quick­ly, in 30 min­utes:

• Christ­mas trees;
• Christ­mas balls;
• ani­mals — sym­bols of the New Year;
• snowflakes.

Knit­ted sou­venirs will bring warmth, com­fort to loved ones, as ll as col­leagues. This is a good alter­na­tive to store bought gifts. Knit­ted gifts for the New Year are always orig­i­nal. No need to be afraid for the qual­i­ty of the gift. DIY gifts save the bud­get. Open­work kni­tar looks pre­sentable at any time of the year.

In the next video, you will find addi­tion­al ideas for knit­ted gifts for the New Year.