Nice and Easy ... hat and scarf
This is the month for the Sailor's Society** "woolly hat week" (8th-14th February 2015). So I thought I would post this hat and scarf combination - easy to knit in 4 ply fingering weight knitting yarn - perhaps suitable for a sailor if you omit the pom-pom decoration!
You can find other patterns as well as where to send your hats on their website link above. Also see my previous POM from 2008 with other chunky hat patterns - including my all time favourite appropriately knitted in Fisherman's rib.
Here's what Hannah says: "Our international network of port chaplains and ship visitors give your amazing hats out to seafarers visiting port, while others are wrapped and included in the Christmas welfare parcels that are taken on board ship for the festive season. The need for more hats is ever-increasing! Drew, our Port Chaplain in Invergordon, has been known to give out 500 in a day on occasion!"
InstructionsPanels of moss stitch and flag stitch are used for this cosy scarf and pull on hat. The scarf is fringed and the hat trimmed with a large pom-pom. ScarfCast on 72 sts These 8 rows form the pattern. Continue in pattern until scarf measures 167½ cm (66 inches) from beginning, (or however long you want the scarf to be) ending with an 8th pattern row. Cast off. To make up the ScarfDo not press. HatCast on 144 stitches. Work in pattern as given for scarf, but without the moss stitch border on both sides. So set out your rows as follows: 1st row (right side): *
(k1, p1) 4 times, k1, p7; repeat from *
end. Continue until work measures 25½ cm (10 inches) from beginning, ending with an 8th pattern row. Shape crownNext row: * Moss st 8, k1, p2, ybk, sl 1, yfwd, p2tog, psso, p2; repeat from * to end of row. [126 sts] Next row: * k4, p2, moss st 8; repeat from * to end of row. Next row: * Moss st 8, k2, sl 1, p2tog, psso, p1; repeat from * to end of row. [108 sts] Next row: * k1, p3, moss st 8; repeat from * to end of row. Next row: * Moss st 8, k1, sl 1, k2tog, psso; repeat from * to end of row. [90 sts] Next row: Moss st to end of row. Next row: * Moss st 7, sl 1, k2tog, psso; repeat from * to end of row. [72 sts] Next row: Moss st to end of row. Next row: * Moss st 5, sl 1, k2tog, psso; repeat from * to end of row. [54 sts] Continue decreasing in this way on every alternate row until 18 sts remain.
Break off yarn, thread through sts, draw up and fasten off. To make up the HatDo not press. Trim with a large pom-pom. |
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** Please note that the Sailors Society does seem to be a religious organisation, which I mention not through any disapproval on my part, but in case you would care to look at their website and ensure its aims do not go against anything you believe in.