What’s the collective noun for pumpkins? A patch! So when you start to feel the autumn chill, and halloween is not far away, here’s a way you can decorate your home with a patch of pumpkins.

This pattern is worked in the round and includes a basic pumpkin pattern plus a cable pumpkin pattern - with the option to add a twisted stitch between the segments for extra definition. You can vary the height of the pumpkin by simply adjusting the number of rows. I’ve given the number of rows I used for the two heights of pumpkins I made, but you can also vary that yourself.

The pumpkins are made with DK weight yarn and while I stuck to autumnal colours, you can use whichever colours you like. And each pumpkin only uses approximately 15g of yarn (less for the shorter version), so this is a great stash buster!

The pattern assumes you are working on a circular needle using the magic loop method, although you could use dpns if you prefer. As the pumpkins have eight segments, it would work well using four dpns to hold the stitches. Each needle would then contain two segments of the pumpkin and you would be doing the same on each needle.