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🎄 Milestone Keepsake Ornaments Vol 2 — 12 original knitting patterns (PDF, 39 pages).
Some years change a family forever — the first Christmas together, the first Christmas in a new home, the year you said yes, the year the first grandchild arrived. Mark the year it happened with something hand-knitted and treasured: every ornament in this keepsake collection from our Aussie family shop carries a charted year panel spelling 2026 in colourwork across the front, and the pack also includes a full charted number set (0–9) plus a chart-your-own-year guide, so you can personalise any ornament for any family, any year. These are true future heirlooms in the making — whimsical, hand-knitted little milestones that come out of the keepsake box every Christmas with the story attached.
This collection includes 12 original patterns: Koala Our First Christmas Bauble, Kangaroo New Home Bauble, Wombat Grandparents' First Christmas Bauble, Quokka Married 2026 Heart Ornament, Bilby Big Brother Bauble, Cockatoo First Christmas in Our New Home Star Ornament, Kookaburra Family of Three Bauble, Platypus First Grandchild Bauble, Echidna Engaged 2026 Bauble, Wallaby Twins' First Christmas Mini Stocking, Tassie Devil First Christmas Together Bauble, and Emu Year We Said Yes Bauble.
Each of the 12 patterns includes:
• A dedicated photo page
• Pattern-at-a-glance box (skill level, finished size, yarn, needles)
• Full round-by-round instructions with stitch counts on every round
• A charted 2026 year panel (15 sts x 5 rows) on every design, worked in stranded colourwork or duplicate stitch
• The full charted number set 0–9 plus a chart-your-own-year guide in Pattern 1 — personalise any year for any milestone
• Small charted and embroidered-after motifs: a couple of koalas, a little house under the panel, a three-bird family row, a gold ring, an embroidered heart, and twin joey pouches
• Nine bauble covers, each shaped its own way — a gathered base, a swirl crown, a halving crown, a purl-ridge crown — all fitting standard 6 cm baubles, with stitch counts on every round
• A mini stocking with a short-row heel decreased on knit and purl rows, plus a lobes-joined heart and a wide-centre star, counts on every row
• Ears, beaks, bills, houses, rings and pouches knitted separately and sewn on last, so every Aussie character sits perfectly
Knit one for your own tree, one for the newlyweds, one for the new grandparents, and one for the front door of the new home — a handmade milestone keepsake is the gift families still have decades later, long after the wrapping is forgotten. They make a lovely DIY holiday activity and craft-night project too: whimsical Aussie animals — koala, kangaroo, wombat, quokka, bilby, cockatoo, kookaburra, platypus, echidna, wallaby, Tasmanian devil and emu — bringing a true Aussie Christmas to the tree, whether you are celebrating in Australia or carrying a little Aussie Christmas with you anywhere in the world. Australia may do Christmas in summer, but a family milestone deserves an ornament as original as the moment itself.
Skill level: Confident beginner (the charts are small and charted clearly). DK weight yarn, 3.25 mm DPNs. Bauble covers fit standard 6 cm baubles; the mini stocking measures about 15 cm from cuff to heel.
KNITTING PATTERN only — not finished items. This is a digital PDF download; no physical item will be shipped.
MORE FROM ALANDTINA — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:
Milestone Keepsake Ornaments Vol 1 — knitted baby's first Christmas keepsakes with the same charted year panel
Christmas Bauble Covers — knitted covers that dress plain baubles as Aussie animals
Aussie Christmas Stockings — full-size hand-knitted stockings with Aussie animal designs
Original designs © Alandtina. For personal use only. Listing photos are AI-generated concept images.
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