Winter is a delightful time of year for crafters — especially for knitters and crocheters.
In wintertime, it’s cold enough to wear all the scarves, hats, socks, slippers and mittens we’ve lovingly crafted; the blankets we’ve made are welcome additions to our beds and armchairs; and there’s plenty of inspiration for knitting or crocheting snowflakes, snowmen and other projects featuring wintry motifs.
If you’re in search of winter craft ideas, especially winter knitting and crochet patterns, we hope you’ll enjoy looking through the following collection featuring fun winter-themed motifs, warm winter blankets, cold-weather accessories and more.
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Warm Winter Hats to Crochet and Knit
Knitted and crocheted hats can help you reduce the effects of winter’s chill by keeping your head cozy and warm. Grab some free hat patterns if you’d like to get started knitting or crocheting a new winter hat for anyone in your family.
Pictured here: an easy, beginner-friendly baby hat pattern for crocheting an ultra-warm hat for a sweet, tiny head.
Warm Winter Scarves, Cowls and Neck Warmers to Knit and Crochet
If you want to bundle up this winter, scarves, cowls and neck warmers are excellent accessories you can use to retain warmth by layering. We recommend the following patterns for keeping your neck warm this winter:
Quick, Easy Jumbo Crochet Cowl
This jumbo-sized cowl is currently the warmest scarf I own. For starters, it’s made out of wool, a fiber which is noteworthy for its ability to keep you warm even if you saturate it with cold water (like if it’s snowing on you, or you’re out sailing in a cold rain.)
Quick, Easy Crochet Neck Warmer for Beginners
This neck warmer looks fancy and festive, but the crochet work is ultra easy! The crocheted part of the neck warmer is a simple rectangle shape worked in a basic crochet stitch. The finishing work is what makes it look so elegant; an eye-catching clasp does the hard work in making this wardrobe piece look elegant.
Rainbow Tapestry Crochet Scarf Pattern
Brighten up cold, gray winter days with a jolt of color. This colorful scarf combines a neutral beige with a delightful rainbow of yarn colors. The effect is vibrant and eye-catching, yet totally wearable.
See our main directory of knit and crochet scarf patterns to find even more options for winter scarves you can make.
Colorful, Artistic Mittens to Knit
Jorid Linvik’s Big Book of Knitted Mittens features some of the most captivating knitted mitten patterns I have ever seen. There are mitten patterns suitable for women, men and children included in the book.
Winter Clothing Patterns
The Big 3 Knitting Techniques Book
If you’d like to knit warm winter clothing or accessories for ladies using stranded colorwork knitting, slip stitch knitting or relief stitch knitting, check out The Big 3 Knitting Techniques book. This small hardcover volume doubles as both a stitch dictionary and pattern book, giving you unlimited numbers of ideas for mixing and matching surface pattern designs with silhouettes for accessories, vests and sweaters. The book includes patterns for basic mittens, hat, vests and a sweater plus bunches of different stitch patterns. I find this book extremely inspiring, and I highly recommend it.
Warm Knitted and Crocheted Blankets for Winter
Winter is the ideal season for snuggling up with a large crochet or knitting project like a blanket. It’ll keep you warm as you stitch; and then When you’re finished, your lovely blanket will keep you warm for many years in the future.
Crochet Snowflakes
Winter Crochet Snowflake Applique: Free Crochet Pattern
Pictured Above:
- Crochet Snowflake Trivet Pattern
- Crochet Snowflakes Step-by-Step, one of the best resources you’ll find anywhere on the topic of crocheting snowflakes.
- A beaded crochet snowflake that makes a lovely winter decoration.
- Crochet Hexagon Motif Crocheted to Look Like a Snowflake. The pattern for this design is found in Crochet Kaleidoscope by Sandra Eng, published by Interweave.
- A winter snowflake applique you can crochet in any size yarn or thread
- Crochet Snowflake Potholders: Free Pattern
Square Wine Bottle Cozy
You can crochet this square wine bottle cover at any time of year, or for any occasion; it’s a lovely craft project to consider any time you know you’ll be transporting whisky or wine that comes in a fragile glass bottle — for example, on December 31st or January 1st, for your New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day celebration.
So there you have it: That concludes this list of ideas for winter crafts. If you didn’t find what you want on the list, you’re also invited to check out the main directory of craft project ideas — or use the navigation links in the site header above to find more projects, tutorials, supplies, books and reviews.
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This page was last updated on 11-25-2025.