Fall Crafts

Find Ideas for Your Next Autumn Craft Project: Fall Crochet Patterns, Fall Knitting Patterns and More

Fall Crafts: Autumn Illustration With Brush Lettering. Photo Courtesy of Elena Mozhvilo

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:

Knit and Crochet 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.


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.

Sweaters and Shawls

Learn How to Knit a Variety of Stunning Shawls and Wraps Using the Patterns in Vogue Knitting Shawls and Wraps 2 by the Editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine. This Delightful Pattern Book Is Published by Sixth & Spring Books.

Learn How to Knit a Variety of Stunning Shawls and Wraps Using the Patterns in Vogue Knitting Shawls and Wraps 2 by the Editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine. This Delightful Pattern Book Is Published by Sixth & Spring Books.


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.

nit Yourself a New Favorite Fall Sweater Using Melissa Leapman's Awesome Knit Design Manual Called 6,000+ Pullover Possibilities

Knit Yourself a New Favorite Fall Sweater Using Melissa Leapman’s Awesome Knit Design Manual Called 6,000+ Pullover Possibilities

Fall Baby Projects

The Book Dressing Up Baby Includes Fantastic Baby Patterns for Fall Including Sweaters, Baby Blankets, Baby Booties and Baby Hats

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.

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

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

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

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 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 12-21-2022.