When the crisp air of fall moves in, and we bundle up with our favorite sweaters for long walks through rustling leaves, down rows of apple trees, or through pumpkin patches in search for the great pumpkin, one thing is certain, somehow a cabled sweater just seems cozier. That's why we decided to show you how to make one of our October favorites, an Easy Cable Knit Pumpkin. 

In this post, we show you know to knit a pumpkin with an easy cable pattern. The cable mimics the ridges found in a pumpkin and has a short increase and decrease at either end to prevent cable flair and to make it easier to close on the top and bottom. If you've never cabled before but have always wanted to, then this is a great project to learn on.

We recommend that when you stuff the pumpkin, lean towards over stuffing the pumpkin. We found that after stuffing ours, it could use a bit more to fill out some flat spots. This is a great part of using a cinnamon stick stem, we simply removed the cinnamon sticks and worked in more polyfill. 

Cast on 56 sts

Row 1: *K4, p4, rep from * to end, ensure sts are not twisted and join in rnd.

Rnd 2-4: *K4, p4, rep from * to end. 

Rnd 5: *Kfb, k2, kfb, p4 rep from * to end

Rnd 6: *C6F, p4, rep from * to end

Rnds 7-17: *K6, p4, rep from * to end

Rep Rnds 6-17 twice

Rnd 42: *C6Fdec, p4, rep from * to end

Rnd 43: *K5, [p2tog] twice, rep from * to end

Rnds 44-45: *K5, p2, rep from * to end

Cast Off