🐍 2025 is the Year of the Snake! 🐍
The new year is already sending us swerves and surprises—to put it mildly—so why not knit a tiny snake or two for good luck? We’ll need it!
This sassy-sweet pattern is now available as a PDF download (Both here on Ravelry as Snake Charmer) and as a kit.
The quick project incorporates a bit of I-cord, intarsia knitting, and knitting in the round. You’ll add a pipe cleaner before seaming the belly with mattress stitch for a pose-able tail.
Linked videos will help you with intarsia, mattress stitch, and embroidery to give your snake a cute lil forked tongue.
The kit comes with the printed pattern, enough yarn and and stuffing to knit two snakes in red and gold, plus color-coordinated pipe cleaners to give your snakes’ tails a stylish swivel. (The matching colors help keep the pipe cleaner invisible inside.)
Here’s to a year of just enough smarts and silliness to succeed 🐍
Thank you to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing and Kristine Brandel for testing 💛
A little behind-the-scenes after the jump!
This pattern took a little longer than usual to release because it went through a complete redesign! Originally my little snakes looked like this.
But it was brought to my attention that when these cute little guys stretched their tails out, they looked extremely sperm-like.
Now I really don’t have anything against sperm. They’re pretty cool, and also pretty cute! But I didn’t want people to be distracted and confused about my messaging here, when I’m only trying to revel in the cuteness and optimism that comes with Chinese zodiac animals.
So with a slightly heavy heart, I said goodbye to the year of the sperm and hello to year of the snake. My first redesign had the snake facing forward, with a tongue that pointed out.
But then, that made it just a snake. To fit in with my series of New Year animals, it really needed the flatter face. So I tried it sideways like the others…
… and finally I felt like I achieved a snake that’s genuinely serpentine and also cute and also fits with my New Year series.
I hope you enjoy knitting it!