Knitted Turkey Wine Bottle Topper Pattern

Hello Friends,


I hope you are having a good weekend. It is the Thanksgiving weekend in Canada and I went to my fiance's mom's place yesterday and we had a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. Liam's mom loved the turkey wine bottle topper I knitted for her. I was so glad that she liked it.I am sharing the pattern I made up below if you would like to make a turkey for Thanksgiving. This can also work very well as a finger puppet for children. I enjoy making these toppers because they are perfect for topping wine bottles given as gifts and are so festive and fun!

Materials needed:

Yarn: Bernat Cotton yarn for the red, brown, beige and black parts of the turkey.
Needles: 3.25 mm double pointed needles
Darning needle

Side of turkey

Back 

Pattern:

Body:

• Cast on 20 stitches
• Knitted seed stitch (k1,p1, next row p1,k1)
• Continue for desired length. I knitted in seed stitch until it measured 5 inches

Head and beak:

• Switch to the red yarn
• Knit 20 stitches around for desired length
• Beak: add the beige yarn and make one two stitches in the center of the head after about 8-10 rows. Place stitches on a cable stitch holder and move all red stitches divided onto two needles and knit back and forth for two rows.  Pick up the beige stitches and pick up the desired amount of stitches to make the size of beak you would like. then knit in the round and decrease until one stitch remains. I picked up 4 other red stitches.
• Pick up the previous knitting needles again that you put aside to knit the beak. Begin to decrease by knitting two together every 4th stitch, then 3rd,2nd,1 stitch every other row until you have 8 remaining stitches and bind off.

Wings:

• Cast on 6 stitches
• Garter stitch (knit both sides) until desired length.
• Begin decreasing by knitting two together when desired length of the middle of the wing
• Bind of when you get to one stitch remaining.
• Leave a long length of yarn when binding off around 8 inches to attach it to the body when you are finished.
• attach the wings to the side of the turkey just below where the red yarn begins for the head.

Back feathers

• Cast on two stitches with black yarn
• Make one stitch (M1) knit-wise every knit row until have 6 stitches across then stitch to brown yarn.
• Knit the right sides and M1 in the middle of the row, purl the wrong sides
• Knit until 17 stitches across
• Add on the beige color. knit 3 rows and M1 on knit sides
• Bind off:
• For top of feathers I used the channel island bind off method to get the feathers at the top to have texture. You can follow the YouTube video I used to do this method using Knit Purl Hunter's video.
• Leave a long length of yarn when binding off around 8 inches to attach it to the body when you are finished.
• *Repeat this twice to make two pieces and then sew them together and attach onto the back of the turkey body.
• Attach the feathers to the back of the head of the turkey (as pictured above) by sewing yarn behind the head to the feathers so the feathers stand up and do not flop backwards.

Snood:

• Cast on 3 stitches in red yarn
• Garter stitch for 3-5 rows and bind off
• Leave a long length of yarn when binding off around 8 inches to attach it to the head when you are finished.
• Attach the snood just below the beak

Eyes:

• Use black yarn and sew desired eye size onto the front of face. I knitted into the inside of the head and came through the back of work and tied on a stitch to back to fasten.
• Sew the eyes using the yarn then come through the back and fasten the yarn on the wrong side (inside of the head) do the same for the second eye.

Finishing notes:

• Assemble all of the pieces together using the yarn from binding off the pieces. Make sure to leave enough yarn hanging from beginning pieces to use to weave in the ends and tighten the work at the end and fasten so it does not come apart.
• There will be a lot of threads to weave in when you are finished especially in the back with switching to three different colors. 
• You can change any of the colors given in this pattern or even change the size or length of the pieces to make your turkey unique.

Your turkey is done! Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you for visiting today and hope that you make the turkey for your next thanksgiving dinner to give to the host or to enjoy for yourself. I have not tested out this pattern since making the one turkey so I hope that it works for you. Please let me know in the comments if you knitted it and how you like the pattern.

Knitted Bunny Wine Bottle Topper Pattern

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. I decided to knit bunny wine bottle toppers for Easter and will be giving them as gifts to my soon to be mother-in-law and my parents for Easter.I originally saw some bunny wine bottle toppers while shopping at Pottery Barn years ago and was inspired to make my own. I have shared a pattern I made with you down below if you want to make your own bunny wine bottle topper for Easter or the Spring season.

Bunny wine bottle topper

Pattern

Notes:

• The finished topper bunny's face stretches over the bottle so create your bunny face how you would like it to look when placed on the bottle. 
• You can adjust the needle size and yarn size according to how big or small you want your bunny to be. The bunny I made fits tightly to the bottle, as some extra stitches if you would like it to be a looser fit. 
• Pattern made to fit a wine bottle about 1" in diameter and a neck of the bottle that is 3.5" in length.

Materials needed:

• Circular needles or double pointed needles (I used size US 4 3.5 mm circular needles)
• White yarn or color of your choice (I used Aran (8 wpi) weight wool)
• Darning needle
• Black, white, and pink thread
• Sewing Needle

Body
Cast on 20 stitches
Knit in the round until piece is the length you desire I knitted until the piece measured 3" inches long
Start decreasing (k2tog), choose your rate of decrease. I had 20 stitches and chose to k2tog every 3 stitches so I decreased 4 stitches 1st round, then knit one round, then decreased every two stitches, then 1 stitch until I had 8 stitches left then cut off and threaded yarn through darning needle and then closed the top of the bunny's head.
Final piece measures 3.5" and about 1.5" wide.


Ears (knit in stockinette, knitted right side for outside of bunny's ear and purl inside for wrong side)
Cast on 1 stitch
Knit the first stitch and knit into back to create one more stitch
Purl the next row
Repeat row 2 and 3 until there are 7 stitches and stop increase
Knit right side and purl wrong side of ear until it measures 7".
Decrease 1 stitch (k2tog) every other row and continue purling the other side, until 4 stitches remain and bind off. Sew the ears onto the top of the head by the end where you bound off.
Ears measure 8" when finished.

Face
One one side of bunny, create a face for your bunny.
Sew the eyes as desired. I sewed them as small circles
Sew the nose as desired. I sewed the nose as an upside down triangle below the eyes
Mouth: sew as desired. I sewed the mouth as a short line below the nose then two other short lines in an upside down V below.

Your bunny is finished! Enjoy giving the bunny as a gift to your host on top of a bottle of wine or enjoy decorating your own wine bottles with them to celebrate the Easter holiday or Spring season.

Joining along with Ginny and others for Yarn Along and Frontier Dreams for Crafting On.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope that you enjoy making your very own bunny wine bottle topper. Please let me know if you try it out, I would love to see your projects on Ravelry, your blog, or Instagram!