Spore

• Product description

  A plush cabled hat and scarf set provides jaunty warmth for sledding, cross-country skiing, or simply tramping out to the school bus. The pert, mushroom-shaped cap is worked up from a tubular cast-on hem in two skeins of Shelter and is sized all the way to adult dimensions; the matching scarf is a simple end-to-end knit that can be worked to any length. Both accessories feature a flight of chevrons filled with garter stitch and flanked by large and small simple cables to timeless and ageless effect.

  Designer: Jared Flood

  Collection: Kids 1

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  Worsted weight wool yarn in the following approximate amounts:

  • 520 (540, 555, 580) yards of worsted weight wool yarn for both items
  • 145 (165, 180, 205) yards of worsted weight wool yarn for hat only
  • 375 yards of worsted weight wool yarn for scarf only

  
  

  YARN

  • 4 (4, 4, 5) skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 140 yards/50g)
  • Photographed in color Sweatshirt

  
  

  Please note: the stitch patterns in this set are charted only.

• Pattern specs

  GAUGE

  • 27 stitches & 29½ rows/rounds = 4″ in cabled pattern from charts with Size A needle(s), after blocking
  • 44-stitch Scarf motif measures 6½” wide with Size A needle(s), after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  Size A (for Main Fabric):

  • One 16″ circular needle, either one 32″ circular needle or a pair of straight needles*, and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)^† in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 4½ mm (US 7)

  
  

  Size B (for Ribbing):

  • One 16″ circular needle, and either one 32″ circular needle or a pair of straight needles, two sizes smaller than Size A
  • Suggested Size: 3¾ mm (US 5)

  
  

  Size C (optional; for Tubular Cast On only):

  • One 16″ circular needle, and either one 32″ circular needle or a pair of straight needles*, one size smaller than Size B
  • Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)

  
  

  *Knitter’s preferred style of needle may be used

  
  

  ^†32” circular needle can be used instead of DPNs and 16″ circular if using the Magic Loop method for working small circumferences in the round

  
  

  Note: If you have adjusted the needle size to obtain the correct gauge, it may or may not be necessary to make a matching adjustment to the needle size used for Tubular Cast On due to variance in individual work. Please test your chosen cast-on method on your swatch.

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • Scarf (one size): 6½” width; 49″ length
  • Hat: 18¼ (21, 21, 21¾)” circumference; 7½ (7½, 8, 8¾)” length
  • Sized for 2 years (4–6 years, 8–10 years, youth–adult)
  • Sample shown is size 4–6 years on model of 6 years

  
  

• Techniques

  Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern.

  REQUIRED TECHNIQUES

  • Cast On of choice (for 1 x 1 ribbed fabric)
  • Bind Off of choice
  • Blocking (Suggested method: Wet-Blocking)

  
  

  OPTIONAL TECHNIQUES

  • 1 x 1 Tubular Cast On – Circular Knitting 
  • 1 x 1 Tubular Cast On – Flat Knitting
  • 1 x 1 Tubular Bind Off

  
  

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