Welcome to the 8th year of Ambah’s Festive KAL, 2025.
Join us in a fun December knit-a-long.
ELIGIBLE PATTERNS
This year participants may choose between over 30 of Ambah’s especially designed patterns to knit up during the KAL;
(3 new patterns to be added in November 2025)
See all the patterns in Ravelry here and Etsy here.
How to join in?
Join us in the Ravelry Pre-KAL thread For pre-KAL chat and planning.
Pick a pattern Which of Ambah’s 30+ Festive patterns will you make this year?
Next: Order a Festive or Advent Kit and wait for it to arrive. Or make your own, do some stash diving, add some extra mini skeins, ask your knitty friends for their leftovers – team up and create a kit among yourselves.
Check the Yarnie enabling thread here (Ravelry) and the destash thread here for some beautiful kit options.
December 1: Cast on! Join the daily KAL threads.
Post your KAL pictures in the thread: show us your Daily yarn/gift, show us your Festive Ambah WIP and join in the chat.
Prizes will be drawn randomly through December.
Once the Festive December period is over this thread will open up for the duration of the KAL. Continue here in this manner until February 1, 2026. Then post your finished project/s in the FO thread to be eligible for even more prizes!
- Wait 11 months and do it all over again! (with new patterns in 2026)
DATES
Cast on December 1, 2025.
Finish projects and post in the Ambah’s Festive KAL 2025 FO thread (coming) by midnight February 1, 2026 to be eligible for the final prize drawings.
GENERAL DETAILS
Cast on and knit your Ambah’s Festive KAL project in company.
Share pictures here of your daily Yarn Advent/Countdown Calendar/Festive kit goodies in each daily thread and add it to your project or work from stashed oddments and mini-skeins or the yarn that inspires you to make your ADVENT project. Share WIP pics and have some fun this festive season, there’ll be daily prizes during the Festive December period and FO prizes in February.
If you are opening specific kits eg: Hanukah, Advent, 31 day countdown to 2026, Kwanzaa kits just jump in on the day your kit starts, feel free to join the daily chat threads in the meantime.
PRIZES
So many prizes; yarn, vouchers, enamel pins, shawl pins, project bags, tools and more, plus coupon codes for all – check out the prize thread for daily updates and general info.
Win prizes in 2 ways:
1. Participate in each of the daily KAL threads by posting pictures of your Ambah’s Festive KAL WIP, share your yarn and join in the chat. Project must be cast on or after December 1, 2025.
Prizes will be drawn from the daily threads by random selector and by other surprise means.
2. Post your Ambah’s Festive KAL FO in the Official FO thread by February 1, 2026 to be in the grand prize draw.
Check out the 2025 sponsors list below (coming) and enjoy the special offers they have for you during December.
