A Hooded Lass

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I mentioned a while back that I was working on knitting a hooded scarf for Peach. I bought the yarn with the intention of finding a pattern for what I had in my head, but I never found the pattern. None of the patterns looked just like the picture in my head (or they were more complicated than I wanted to deal with), so I made one up. It looks pretty close to the picture in my head, but if I had to do over again I probably would not have made it so long. It works, though, really well. It stays on her head and keeps her neck toasty warm. It was very easy to knit, also, and fast with the chunky yarn. I originally started knitting, pulled it apart and switched to crochet, pulled it apart and went back to knitting.






Below is a rough pattern. Adjust the size for your kid or adult. Peach is six years old and this should fit for at least two more years. This would be a fine project for a beginner since it involves nothing but the stockinette stitch and sewing the seams together (and a pom-pom if that's your style!).

Cast on 74 stitches using the double cast on method, with chunky yarn and big needles. I used US 15 needles and the yarn linked to above. The chunky yarn is a kind of double-edged sword. It's very "flubby" so it hides errors. But because it's flubby it sometimes looks like you made errors when you didn't.

Knit, using the stockinette stitch until you have ten inches of knitting.

Cast off.

Fold piece in half crosswise, right sides together.

Stitch the sides together, on the cast-off side, from one end to the other, lengthwise.

Measuring down from the closed end, begin stitching sides together 10 inches down from the top. Stitch for 5 inches, leaving it open at the bottom (if you stitch all the way down it will be too bunchy around the neck).

Add a pom-pom at the point, if desired.



And speaking of knitting needles, hunting around on the interweb, as college boy calls it, I found these. I know what's on next year's Christmas list. Cool, eh?








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