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Quick Cap by Katherine Misegades
This hat is knit back and forth, and uses short rows to shape the crown. Select this LINK to download the printable PDF pattern.
Mouse Tracks Neck Lace by Katherine Misegades
 This fashon accessory features a pull-through fastener similar to some neck scarfs, glittery yarn, and a small lace pattern adapted from the book Gossamer Webs by Galina Khmeleva and Carol Noble, Interweave Press. It can be knit any length and enhanced with a broach or beads.
Yarn: about 200 yards of sport or fingering weight.
Needles: U. S. size 2, 3 or 4.
Select this LINK to download the printable PDF pattern.
Peri Switzer's Multicolor No-2-Alike
Hat
This makes an adult or large
child's hat
and is
a good way to use up small balls & leftovers.
For a smaller hat, cast on
fewer stitches
keeping a multiple of 4 plus 1.
- Using 3 strands of worsted weight acrylic yarn
and leaving a tail 8 to 10 inches long, cast
on 41 st on a 10 1/2 or 11 circular needle (11
will make a little larger hat).
- Join round by knitting 1st st & last st
tog.
- Grab tail
and k 2d st, then p 2, k 2 repeating until
the piece is 7 to 8 inches long (or as long
as your hand), knitting the tail in with the
stitches on the 1st row.
- As you go along and need to add more yarns
as the small balls run out, lay the new yarn
in with the working yarn, overlapping for 8
or 10 inches so that for that short distance
you have 4 working strands.
- Dec in pattern to 8 st rem and cut yarns
about 8 inches long.
- Thread this 3-strand tail into a large needle & pull
through the 8 rem st to draw them tightly.
Weave the rest of the tail down into the inside
of the hat.
Gansey Gusset-Heel Sock
 At
the November 2005 meetings, Katherine Misegades
presented a lesson about Gansey knitting.
In her book, Knitting Ganseys, Beth
Brown-Reinsel discusses the details that makes
sweater construction identifiably Gansey —
welts, plain area, definition welt, patterning,
seam stitches, gusset.
This sock was designed for Guild members by Katherine
as a small practice project for learning these
techniques.
You may download a free, printable PDF file of
the pattern by clicking
here. If you are on a dial-up connection,
click here
for a smaller PDF file.
This pattern was revised 7/10/06 to include more
detail for turning the heel. |
Today,
U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo,
and South Korea, as well as many parts of the
United States, are exposed to winds and bitter
cold during the winter months. Riding in open
trucks and humvees, they often encounter sub-zero
wind chills. The military head gear issued to
our troops is made of synthetic material which
is not as warm as wool. Just as in WWI and WWII,
volunteers are needed to make these wool caps
for our troops. The wool head covering which can
be worn under the Kevlar helmet provides warmth
to the head and neck but does not restrict vision.
