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Woven

A luxuriously warm beanie. Combining sumptuous cashmere and silk lace weight yarn with a super soft squishy merino singles yarn. The fold up brim adds warmth and flexibility of fit. Hat fits an adult sized head. Fun and fast to knit in the round.

Needles: 

1 x 5mm 40cm circular needles, 

1 set of 5mm set of double pointed needles for reducing crown

Yarns:

 Filatura Di Crosa Superior lace 25 gms 300 mts

Malabrigo Worsted 210 yds (190 mts) 100 gms

 Hat uses approximately 150 mts of yarn

Work with one strand of lace and one strand of worsted held together 

Abbreviations:

  • Rnds – rounds;
  • k -knit;
  • p – purl;
  • p2tog – purl two stitches together;
  • k2tog – knit two stitches together; 
  • (…….) brackets mark repeatable instructions

Cast on 88 sts

Join in the round, place marker for beginning of round.

Band

Rnds 1 – 29 (K2,p2) repeat to end (12cms from cast on)

body pattern chart

Body

Rnd 1 knit

Rnd 2-4 (k3,p5) repeat to end

Rnd 5 knit

Rnd 6- 8 (p4,k3,p1) repeat to end

Repeat above 8 rounds twice more. For a total of 3 times

Crown

Rnd 1 knit

Rnd 2 (k3, p2, p2tog,p1) (77 sts)

Rnd 3 & 4 (k3, p4) repeat to end 

Rnd 5 knit

Rnd 6 (p2tog, p1, k3, p1) repeat to end (66 sts)

Rnd 7 & 8 (p2, k3, p1) repeat to end

Rnd 9 knit

Rnd 10 (k1, p1, p2tog, p2) repeat to end (55 sts)

Rnd 11 (k1,p1,p2tog, p1) repeat to end (44 sts)

Rnd 12 (k1, p3) repeat to end

Rnd 13 (k2, k2tog) repeat to end (33 sts)

Rnd 14 & 15 (P1, k1, p1) repeat to end

Rnd 16 (k2tog, p1)repeat to end (22 sts)

Rnd 17 (k2tog) repeat to end(11 sts)

Break yarn and thread through stitches. Pull to close and secure end

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Witch

Materials

Abbreviations

  • k – knit
  • p-purl
  • kfb – knit front and back into the stitch to increase
  • rnd – round
  • sts – stitches
  • k2tog – knit 2 stitches together
  • (….) repeats

Legs

Cast on 4sts in stockings colour and work Icord for 20 cms

Break yarn and sew end though stitches and gather. Sew in ends and tie knots either end of the Icord to form the feet

Body

Cast on 32sts in the dress colour, join in the round. Leave a long end.

Rnd 1 Purl

Rnd 2 – 8 knit

Rnd 9 ( k6, k2tog) repeat around, decrease of 4 Sts (28sts)

Rnd 10 – 16 knit

Rnd 17 (k5, k2tog) repeat around (24sts)

Knit until dress measures 8cms from cast on change to skin colour leaving a long tail of the dress yarn.

Head

Knit 10 rounds in skin color, change to hat colour.

Hat

Rnd 1 – knit

Rnd 2 purl

Rnd 3 &4 knit

Rnd 5 (k4, k2tog) repeat around (20sts)

Rnd 6, 7 and 8 knit

Rnd 9 (k3, k2tog) repeat around (16sts)

Rnd 10, 11 and 12 knit

Round 13 (k2, k2tog) repeat around (12sts)

Rnd 14 &15 knit

Rnd 16 (k1, k2tog) repeat around  (8sts)

Rnd 17 and 18 knit

Rnd 19 (k2tog) around (4sts)

Rnd 20 knit

Break yarn and thread though stitches to secure. Sew in end.

Stuff hat and head, using a running stitch and long end left of dress yarn gather neck and secure.

Stuff body.

Sew across base of body catching in the Icord folded in half to create the two legs.

Sew through body at sides to form arms

Hat Brim

Pick up and knit the purl bumps on hat, with point of hat towards you.

Rnd 1, (k1 kfb) around

Rnd 2 knit

Rnd 3 (k2, kfb) around 

Cast off the brim. Sew in ends

Add  3 lengths of yarn doubled using a crochet hook to create hair

Embroider face. Add eyes in black and stitch nose in skin colour.

  • legs and body ready to stuff and assemble
  • pick up and knit stitches with hat towards you
  • attach yarn for hair
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Butterfly – draft

This pattern is untested. Any errors please let me know.

Yarns: dazzle 8ply – scraps for colour of body

Scraps of hand dyed sock yarn – wings

Needles: 3mm double pointed needles

Abbreviations : K – Knit p- purl kfb – knit front and back into stitch. k2tog – knit two stitches together. w&t – wrap and turn ( with yarn in back, insert the right needle tip purlwise into the next stitch, and slip it to the right needle. Bring the yarn to the front, slip the wrapped stitch back to the left needle. Turn the work and work the next row.) SR – short row

Body

Cast on 4 sts join in the round. ( I work as i-cord)

Rnd 1 knit

Rnd 2 (k1, kfb) repeat (6sts) ( I now seperate onto three needles)

Rnds 3 and 4 knit

Rnd 5 (k1, kfb) repeat twice more (9sts)

Rnds 6 – 8 knit

Rnd 9 (k2, kfb) repeat twice more (12 stitches)

Knit until body is 8 cm

Stuff butterfly body

Next rnd (k2tog) around (6sts)

Break yarn and thread yarn through stitches to close head.

Shape head by sewing a gathering row, 2 cms from head end.

Wings – worked with short rows in one piece

Cast on 30sts. And Knit one row

Wedges

Row 1 k14, w&t

(Short row 1) knit to end

( SR 2) K 10 W&t

(SR 3 )knit to end

(SR 4) k 6 w&t

(SR 5) knit to end)

Row 2 knit to end- across all w&t

Row 3 k14, w&t

( Short row 1) knit to end

(SR 2) K 10 W&t

(SR 3) knit to end

(SR 4) k 6 w&t

(SR 5) knit to end)

Row 4 knit to end- across all w&t

Repeat Above 3 rows 4 more times, 5 short row wedges are now worked on each side.

Cast off 

Assembly – Sew wings onto the body of the butterfly. Embroider eyes and use a stand of yarn with a knot tied to create antenna

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Buzz – draft

Yarn: Dazzle 8 ply yellow, black and white

Needles: 3mm double pointed needles

Body

With black yarn Cast on 4 sts join in the round ( I worked as Icord)

Knit 2 rounds

Round 3 (k1, Kfb) around (6sts) – (i now worked with all 4 DPNS)

Round 4 knit

Round 5 change to yellow yarn Knit 

Round 6 (kfb) around (12sts)

Round 7 knit

Round  8 change to black yarn knit

Round 9 knit

Round 10 (k1, kfb) around (18sts)

Round 11 – 13 change to yellow, knit

Round 14 – 16 change to black, knit

Round 17 – 19 change to yellow,  knit

Round 20 -29 change to black knit

antenna

Stuff bee

Round 30 (k2tog) around (9sts)

Round 31 knit

Break yarn and thread through stitches, finish stuffing bee and gather to close.

Shape body by gathering around at the start of the head in black yarn.

Wings – make 2

Cast on 5  sts leaving a tail to sew wing to body

Knit 4 rows

Row 5 p2tog k1, k2tog

Cast off

Eyes are embroidered on

Antenna are added by sewing a length of yarn through head and knotting the end.

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NAC Gnomes – draft

Yarn: Dazzle 8 ply colours for boots pants, belt, shirt, skin and beard

Needles: 3 mm double pointed needles

BODY – Starting at boots

gnome

Cast on 20sts in colour for boots join in the round. Leave a long tail

Knit 5 rounds in boot colour. 

Change to pants colour, knit 6 rounds, place a marker between stitches 10 and 11

Increase rounds

Rnd 1  k1, kfb, knit to two stitches before marker, kfb, k1, slip marker, k1, kfb, knit to two stitches before end of row, kfb, k1

Knit 3 rounds

Repeat above 4 rounds once more.

Work increase round 1 once more (32sts)

Knit one round

Stitch marker can now be removed 

Change to belt colour, knit 3 rounds

Change to shirt colour knit 14 rounds

Decrease in shirt colour

Decrease round 1: (k6, k2tog) around (28sts)

Knit two rounds

Decrease round 2: (k5, k2tog) around (24sts)

Knit one round

Change to face colour, leaving a long end of shirt colour, 30cm.

Knit 9 rounds in face colour

Change to hat colour

Knit one round

Purl next round for brim of hat.

Knit 2 rounds

Dec Rnd one: (k2, k2tog) around (18sts)

Knit 4 rounds

Dec Rnd two: (k1, k2tog) around (12sts)

Knit 4 rounds

Dec round three: (k2tog) around (6sts)

Knit 3 rounds

Dec round four (k2tog) around (3 sts)

Break yarn and thread yarn back through live stitches gather and secure.

Beard

keeping fairies under control is a very important job

Cast on 9 work in rows

Knit two rows

Decrease row – p2tog knit to last 2 sts, k2tog (7sts)

Knit two rows

Repeat last 3 rows twice more, 3 sts remain

Knit 1 row

Stuff hat and head

To finish K3tog and secure end.

Assembly

Gather neck and secure

Stuff body and legs

Sew feet closed

Stitch legs

Stitch arms

Stitch belt buckle 

Sew beard to face.

Embroider eyes

Schematic