Add a personal touch to all your gift-giving this season with these Christmas gift tags!

We don’t have time to knit a special pair of mittens or a hat or scarf for each and every loved one, friend, or co-worker this season, but you can still add a small knitterly touch with these personalize-able gift tags that are as easy as they are memorable keepsakes that continue to give throughout the seasons.

Perfect for friends and family, co-workers, teachers, book clubs, or anyone in your life.

Ideal project for the beginner knitter, with video tutorials linked for each stitch and technique used.

My original article “Cozy Knitting in Your Home this Holiday Season”, with photo tutorial is also available at:
https://cottagecoredream.com/article/cozy-knitting-in-your-home-this-holiday-season

Some fun ideas for decorating and use:

Use embroidery stitches to create trees, ferns, flowers, animals, fungi, or just decorative stitches. Embroidery cotton using all strands, or a finer weight of yarn (fingering weight is ideal) works well for embroidering.

Personalize it! Names, nicknames, words such as “Peace”, “Joy”, “Love” that capture the spirit of the season

Add a significant date in that person’s life. Small details like a significant date can add an extra layer of meaning and make the tag more than a throwaway piece of art. It may be something your loved one hangs above their desk, tucks in a favorite book, or turns into an ornament for years to come.

They also double as ornaments! By changing the number of stitches you cast on, or how many rows you knit, each tag can be easily modified into a square or long ribbon to create a variety of shapes for your tree.

Turn them into a garland. Embroider a different image on each of them for a fun garland to string across a mantle, shelf, or doorway.

Advent calendar. Make 7, 12, or even 24, and ring in the holidays with a beautiful knitted garland. Your garland can be as simple as tags of different colors with no adornments added, to tags with numbers embroidered on them to countdown the days, to an image or word on each to capture a different aspect of the season.