After listening to my boys fight all weekend over who’s GI Joe got to wear the only pair of pants they own…I decided to knit them a pair (or three or four). I could not find any knit patterns so I made one up.
Hopefully, this pattern will save some other mother of boys’ sanity :P
GI JOE PANTS
Yarn: Scrap yarn
Needles: Size 8 dpns
Darning needle
3.5mm crochet hook
Cast on 36 sts
Knit 2 rows.
Next row: *K4, K2tog, yo, repeat from * around.
Knit 10 rows.
Divide sts in half, placing 18sts on a scrap piece of yarn using a darning needle. Rearrange the remaining 18sts on the dpns, join & begin knitting the pant leg in the round.
Knit in round until pant leg reaches 4.5″.
Purl 1 row around.
Knit 1 row around.
Purl 1 row around.
Bind off.
Place the stitches saved on scrap yarn back on the dpns, join yarn and knit in the round until pant leg reaches 4.5″.
Purl 1 row around.
Knit 1 row around.
Purl 1 row around.
Bind off. Weave in ends.
Using crochet hook & scrap yarn, chain 65. Weave the chain in & out of the yo holes for a belt.
July 24, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Cute! Now you just need to knit him a yoga mat and he’ll be all set… ;)
July 26, 2007 at 4:08 pm
This was too freakin’ funny. And GI Joe with a yoga mat is even better. Those GIs need to stay limber!
July 30, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I hope you used cotton yarn. Or Joe will get a nasty rash.
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July 31, 2007 at 2:42 am
Interesting. Thanks
August 11, 2007 at 7:06 pm
A few years ago, I looked for patterns for Action Man (the UK version of GI Joe), and the only pattern we could find was from a 20 year old magazine. I think you’ve singlehandedly increased the stock of patterns by 25%.
September 20, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Awesome. I’m going to adapt these for two 16″ Muslin Dolls :oD
September 27, 2007 at 10:06 pm
a cool pair of pants
December 2, 2007 at 10:56 am
I just saw these on your ravelry, and am SO glad! I have been looking for some clothes for the BOYS toys. They want to be able to dress them (like their sister does with Bratz dolls)…Hurray!
Thank you for the pattern.
February 20, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Thank you. I’ve been trying to make clothes for all our naked GI Joes and Kens but yours is the first pattern I’ve seen. Much nicer than the shapeless fleece wrappers I’ve come up with.
June 11, 2009 at 11:27 pm
HA! That is so funny! It makes me think that GI Joe has a mommy that loves him and knits him pants, and though he tries to make his army buds believe he is all tough, he is actually a mama’s boy who lovingly wears the pants his mommy knits for him. I love it!
September 24, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I was hoping this would be a sewing pattern! I can’t knit well enough for this. :(
Oh, well, I guess I’ll have to come up with a pattern to sew some GI Joe pants and then there will be 2 patterns (3 counting the one another commenter found).
My question is: why is it so hard to find clothes to BUY for him?
January 8, 2010 at 11:39 am
As the host of several naked army guys (dolls, people, dolls!), this is just the thing to keep the peace, especially as the bin also boasts a barbie or two with similar problems…
January 22, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I love these pants. The one site that translates the Dutch patterns has Ken clothes, but the patterns have an accent and sometimes it’s hard to figure out what they want you to do.