I love this little wreath. It was a triumph of technique and high school geometry. I figured the circumference of the inner circle and the circumference of the outer circle.
Circumference is very handy if you want to knit round things. Circumference equals pi times diameter (sometimes people say “2πr,” which is the same thing). For most knitting applications, you can round pi down to 3, because knitting is stretchy enough to compensate for the lack of extreme accuracy.
Using the gauge, I could figure how many rows would go around the inside and how many more were needed to go around the outside. After that, all I had to do was work out how to arrange the short rows.
These ornaments were knitted from Anchor brand cotton embroidery floss, on size 1 knitting needles. I sewed the knitting to felt, then backed each ornament with another piece of felt, with a number on it. It was a lot of work, but they sure are cute!
The Advent wall hanging and its knitted ornaments first appeared on my blog, December 1-24, 2005. I’m posting them on Twitter @textilefusion and Instagram @suzannthompson, too. Hope you’ll follow me to see all 24 ornaments. You can also find them by searching #KnitAdvent.