Find Ideas for Your Next Autumn Craft Project: Fall Crochet Patterns, Fall Knitting Patterns, A Fall Scrapbooking Album, DIY Autumn Greeting Cards, and More
Find a bunch of FREE fall craft project ideas, patterns, and tutorials, plus suggestions for fall-friendly craft books and pay-for patterns that are truly worth the money.
Fall Crafts: Autumn Illustration With Brush Lettering. Photo Courtesy of Elena Mozhvilo
Don’t you just love the autumn season? Fall brings a variety of seasonal delights with it: crisp, cool days; sweater weather; a fruitful harvest of pumpkins, sunflowers, apples and grapes; and best of all, a good excuse to get out your crochet hooks and knitting needles to whip up a variety of cold-weather wearables like hats, scarves, fingerless gloves, socks and more. Now is a fantastic time to load up on fall craft project instructions.
If you’re not sure what sort of craft project you’d like to make next, and you just want to look through a whole bunch of lovely seasonal project ideas and patterns, we invite you to browse through the designs we’ve shared on this page:
Fall Paper Crafts:
Autumn Spice and Everything Nice Scrapbooking Mini Album
Fall Themed Mini Album Titled Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Featuring Supplies by Simple Stories
Nuts About You Layout From Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Featuring Craft Supplies by Simple Stories. The pages pictured here were made using papers and stickers from the Harvest Market and Good Stuff Collections, plus Happy Planner washi tape by Me & My Big Ideas.
Autumn-Themed Card Making Ideas:
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- Happy Fall Card With Cute Bears — Craft Supplies by Lawn Fawn
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- Happy Fall Card With Bear Cubs and Autumn Trees
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Layout: “Life Right Now”
Fall-Themed Digital Scrapbooking Layout: Photographs by Michael and Amy Solovay. Scrapbooking Layout by Amy Solovay. Digital Scrapbooking Supplies by Katie Pertiet Designs.
Knit and Crochet Fall Accessories: Scarves, Hats, Headbands and Fingerless Gloves for Fall
Keep yourself and your loved ones warm and cozy in style with crocheted scarves, hats,headbands and fingerless gloves.
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- Tunisian Knit Stitch Headband: Free Crochet Pattern
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- Easy Openwork Crochet Headband Pattern for Beginners
Crochet headband patterns are some of our most popular pages at this time of year. On chilly fall days, you might not want to wear a hat, but you still want to keep your ears warm. Headbands offer you the perfect solution for that.
Fall Sweaters and Shawls
At this time of year, dressing in layers is ideal. Sweaters, wraps and shawls give you delightful options for adding some lovely layering potential to your wardrobe. Below, I’ve posted my favorite fall-friendly sweater pattern books and shawl pattern books.
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- Norwegian Sweaters and Jackets Knitting Pattern Book: 37 Stunning Scandinavian Patterns
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- Handknits From Rauma, Norway — a Knitting Pattern Book by Bente Presterud, Published by Trafalgar Square Books
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- Fair Isle Knitting Book: 22 Traditional Patterns from Where the Atlantic Meets the North Sea by Carina Olsson, Published by Trafalgar Square Books
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- Check out another fantastic knitting book by the same author! This book is called Vivian Hoxbro’s Knitting Handbook: 8 Schools of Modular Knitting
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- Wondering how to knit faster? One possible way is to choose knitting patterns that are designed to work up quickly. Pictured here is a book called Slow Fashion Made Fast by Alexandra Tavel, published by Leisure Arts. This book is a fantastic choice to use at times when you need to finish a knitting project fast.
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- Find Outstanding Accessory Knitting Patterns in Casual Weekend Knits by Andi Javori
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- Knockout Knit Hats and Hoods, a Knitting Pattern Book by Diane Serviss, published by Stackpole Books.
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- Japanese Knitting: A Book of 23 Japanese Knitting and Crochet Patterns by Michiyo
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- Dimensional Tuck Knitting Book by Tracy Purtscher, Published by Sixth&Spring Books
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- Seed Stitch Book by Rosemary Drysdale, Published by Sixth&Spring Books; This photo of the book cover accompanies our Seed Stitch knitting book review, posted online at KnittingCrochetCrafts.com
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- Amazing Loom Knits Book
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- Arne & Carlos Favorite Designs, published by Trafalgar Square Books.
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- The Crochet Closet: A Crochet Sweater Pattern Book by Lisa Gentry, Published by Leisure Arts. Photo Courtesy of Leisure Arts.
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- Poetic Crochet Shawl Pattern Book by Sara Kay Hartmann, Published by Interweave Press
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- Traditional Danish Sweaters Book Published by Trafalgar Square Books
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- Cable Knits From Nordic Lands Published by Trafalgar Square Books
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- If you’re looking for spring craft ideas, check out Delicate Crochet by Sharon Hernes Silverman, Published by Stackpole Books. Virtually ALL the patterns in this book are spring friendly.
Fall Baby Projects
The Book Dressing Up Baby Includes Fantastic Baby Patterns for Fall Including Sweaters, Baby Blankets, Baby Booties and Baby Hats
Corner-to-Corner Lap Throws for the Family Is a Crochet Pattern Book Featuring Spectacular Baby Blankets and Kids' Blankets Worked Using the Corner-to-Corner Crochet Technique. They're Wonderful Crochet Projects for Fall or Any Time.
Baby blankets, hats, booties and sweaters make lovely fall knitting and crochet projects.
Sunflower Patterns for Late Summer and Early Fall
In the late summer and early fall, sunflowers dazzle us with their beauty, and they offer us their delicious seeds to snack on. For those of us who knit and crochet, they also offer some amazing project inspiration. If you’d like to crochet a sunflower, we invite you to peruse our page of free crochet sunflower patterns. A few of your options are pictured below; click here to see the complete list.
Halloween Craft Projects
Skull motifs make an appearance every year around the time of Halloween / Day of the Dead. If skull motifs, appliqués, and other projects are of interest to you, I invite you to make good use of our collection of skull patterns to knit and crochet. A few of the skull appliqués on the list are pictured below, but there are bunches more skull projects and patterns available — including bunches of scarves, a few blankets and an assortment of other things.
Beastly Crochet Book Published by Interweave Press: Many of the Patterns in This Book Are Ideal for Halloween, Like the Cute Monster Candy Holders Shown on the Front Cover of the Book
- Click here to shop for Beastly Crochet at Amazon.
- Click here to check out our book review of this title.
Thanksgiving Crafts
Want to set a spectacular table for Thanksgiving this year? If so, it’s time to whip up some fabulous table settings and table linens.
For an extra special touch, we suggest using crocheted edgings to trim your cloth napkins; then you can place each napkin inside a handcrafted napkin ring, or use an interesting napkin fold to display it to its best advantage.
Placemats make beautiful additions to your Thanksgiving table settings, and they’re also practical; they can keep your table and / or tablecloth from getting damaged by spills, scratches or other mishaps.
Coasters are also helpful additions to the Thanksgiving table, and also for coffee tables and end tables in use wherever your family is hanging out, or entertaining guests.
So there you have it: bunches of suggestions for fall crafts you might enjoy including DIY fall greeting cards, a fall-themed scrapbook mini album, and plenty of fall-friendly patterns to knit and crochet. I hope you’ve enjoyed this roundup, and that you found a new project to get started on — or some new patterns to add to your pattern stash.
Posted By: Amy Solovay
This page was last updated on 10-9-2023.