Check out this cute little guy, created exclusively for Gathered by Lou Smith. We wanted to share this rainbow knitting pattern with people looking to knit celebrations of the NHS, or tokens to mark Pride, or just lovely little ornaments to hang around your home! Our How to knit a rainbow tutorial includes instructions on adding a sweet embroidered face, too, so you can create a knitted rainbow with cute kawaii character! Designer Lou also suggests knitting the rainbow twice and adding the embroidered face on just one, then sewing them together and stuffing to create a cute 3D finish to your knitted rainbow. Or you can attach some cotton face pads on either side to make quick clouds to frame your knitted rainbow!
We've designed our How to knit a rainbow tutorial to work for completely new knitters. That's why, as well as a the knitted rainbow pattern, we've created a knit-along YouTube tutorial. This will show you what your hands should be doing alongside what you'll see written in the pattern, so you can match up the pattern to the techniques you'll need. Experienced knitter might even learn a thing or two from Lou's helpful pointers and nimble fingers. If you are a new knitter, check out our knitting for beginners article for more pointers on getting started, or see how to cast on knitting and how to cast off knitting articles to see more on the techniques to help you start and finish your projects neatly – but the How to knit a rainbow video will doom those techniques in action, too!
However you choose to use our How to knit a rainbow tutorial, we hope you'll enjoy knitting you own colourful characters. If you prefer a written pattern to an animated vide, you'll find the rainbow knitting pattern underneath the video in the article.
