This knitted paper chain garland is a great way to use up scrap yarn and make a reusable paper chain that won’t break when your cat (or dog, or kid) tries to pull it down! This is an easy, beginner-friendly pattern, perfect for new knitters to learn and practice the knit stitch and seaming with mattress stitch.

About the Pattern

Skill Level: Beginner

Yarn
Knit Picks Palette (100% Peruvian Highland wool; Fingering weight; 231yds/50g). Two strands held double. 4 skeins or 200g used total for 20 links.
Sample shown in “Turmeric”, “Tea Rose”, “Lichen”, and “Garnet Heather”.
Yardage: 924 yds (845 m) total for 20-link chain; 46 yds (42 m) for each link

Needles

• US 7 (4.5mm) needles, or size to obtain gauge

Notions
* Yarn needle

Gauge
* 24 stitches and 25 rows = 4” (10cm) in garter stitch, blocked

Finished Measurements
* 75” (188cm) long with 20 links