These colorwork bauble covers are the perfect way to practice the fair isle technique, use up scraps, and cover your tree in festive knits! Using shatter-proof baubles and covering them in a layer of wool makes your ornaments even more resistant to sabotage by cat, dog, or any small menace trying to attack your tree.

About the Pattern

Skill Level
Intermediate

Yarn
Knit Picks Palette (100% Peruvian Highland wool; Fingering weight; 231yds/50g). 
Yardage: 30 yds (27 m) total
Christmas Pudding:
MC: “Toffee”
CC: “White”
Holly Leaves: “Lichen”
Holly Berry: “Garnet Heather”
Holly and Berry:
MC: “White”
CC1: “Lichen”
CC2: “Garnet Heather”
Pine Trees:
MC: “Lichen”
CC: “White”
 
Needles
US 3 (3.25mm) needles (preferred method for working small circumferences), or size to obtain gauge
 
Notions
Yarn needle
2.5” (65mm) shatterproof glass or plastic bauble
 
Gauge
36 sts and 32 rounds = 4” (10cm) in Stockinette stitch in the round, stretched on bauble
 
Finished Measurements
To fit a 2.5” (65mm) diameter bauble
 
Pattern Notes
This pattern is knit in the round, starting from the bottom of the bauble, featuring fair isle in the middle and cinched around the top.