How to Make a Knitted Eid Mubarak Sign
Knitted signs are a quick and simple way to add a handmade, high-impact touch to your decorations this Eid. From choosing your yarn colour to the size of the artwork and font style, this idea is easy to personalise and is sure to stand out.
This project uses a knitting dolly to create the knitted tube that covers the wire to create the sign. Learning to use a knitting dolly is super quick – you could even get the children involved!
Best of all, once you’ve made the sign, you can store it away to reuse next Eid too.
Project and instructions by Rumana, The Little Pomegranate.
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Threading the knitting dolly: Use a needle or crochet hook to thread the yarn through the knitting dolly, pulling the yarn from the top through to the bottom.
Casting on: Wind the yarn around a hook, anti-clockwise.
Knitting a stitch: Wind the yarn around the next hook, same as before (anti-clockwise around the hook itself) so you now have two loops on the hook.
Knitting a stich: Use the needle and pull the bottom loop (labelled ‘2’ in the photo) up and over loop ‘1’.
Knitting a stitch: slip loop ‘2’ off the needle, leaving loop ‘1’ on the hook.
Knitting a stitch: pull gently on the tail to tighten the stitch.
Casting off: There are lots of different methods to cast off so feel free to use your favourite one. For this version, stop winding the yarn once you have reached your length of cord, and work with the single loop (labelled ‘1’ in the photo).
Casting off: lift loop ‘1’ onto the next hook.
Casting off: Repeat step nine to 11 until there is only one stitch left on the hook.
Casting off: cut your yarn, leaving a tail, pull this through to secure the end.
Making the wire words: Print off the template (find the template download link below) or hand draw your own lettering. You can use pliers for this stage or work by hand. Start the word by bending the wire on itself to secure the start.
Bend the wire to follow the shape of the template.
Top Tip: This is easier to do against the flat surface of a table.
Cut the end and repeat step 14 and bend back 2cm of wire onto itself to secure the end.
Don’t worry if your wire looks untidy, we’ll be finishing off the shape properly afterwards.
Slip the cord onto the wire, so the wire is going through the middle and slowly ease the cord around the shape of the letters; do this section by section, taking care not to twist the knitted cord.
Continue working in this way until the whole word is covered - this is a little fiddlier with longer words but take your time.
Top Tip: You may need to unwind the wire slightly for more tight corners.
Finalise the shaping of the words and place the wired formation under a few heavy books or trivets overnight to flatten the words.
