Even people with a green thumb can use a houseplant that doesn’t need much care. This knitted plant needs almost none. The most you have to do to your knitted houseplant is find it a pretty pot to live in and shake the dust off of it once in a while.

This quick and easy project is modular, so it is perfect to take along and knit on the go. Like socks, it isn’t big and heavy and is good to knit in the summer time. You can use up small bits of yarn, as long as the yarn is green. Even yarn that isn’t green isn’t too big a problem. I provide instructions for dying your plant green.

The gauge of the yarn is not important. You can use leftover bits from other projects.