tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58037120443739191902024-02-20T10:42:12.815+00:00Beaker Button BlogNews from Beaker ButtonBeaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-13033736468053137562022-07-06T14:10:00.003+01:002022-07-06T19:28:34.300+01:00Beginners Fingerless Mittens <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beginners Fingerless Mittens </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMUw8sxrDiMWSVdaR8fgbVv_7VprDJN1sEKivtYcXSw3lnTLTScRuv6kXr44gbZaInRNh5qKcj5IU6T6QA7I0vz-OSSk26ZGH2T02We3dAFA_ypMbKNYBLMFsflK-Bvj6l7L4aeE4BByARMZ1L9goZ0hrNa2DH2WZY8XPl5_vInWT_Y3BXwhPSYhfmg/s2160/IMG_2297.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="2160" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMUw8sxrDiMWSVdaR8fgbVv_7VprDJN1sEKivtYcXSw3lnTLTScRuv6kXr44gbZaInRNh5qKcj5IU6T6QA7I0vz-OSSk26ZGH2T02We3dAFA_ypMbKNYBLMFsflK-Bvj6l7L4aeE4BByARMZ1L9goZ0hrNa2DH2WZY8XPl5_vInWT_Y3BXwhPSYhfmg/w640-h432/IMG_2297.jpeg" width="640" /></a></b></div><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">www.beakerbutton.co.uk</span></b></a><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">©Jen Best 2022</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These mittens are worked from side to side. The length is
approximately 22cm, but this will depend on your tension. To adjust the length,
change the cast on stitches or wet block them longer if they’re too short once
they’re made. Soak them in water for an hour then pin them to shape on a mat/ironing
board with <b>rust free pins</b> until dry. Once they’re dry they will retain
their pinned shape. You can then sew up the sides, leaving a hole for your thumb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span>The amounts in the chart below are an estimate and may change
depending on your tension. I’ve rounded measurements up so you may have yarn
left over. You can gather the leftovers and make them into stripy mittens,
following the 2 colour stripe stitch pattern below.</span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 480; width: 732px;">
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<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn W</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">eight<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Needle size<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cast on Stitches<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn amount<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 colour stripes yarn
amount<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lace<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2mm<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">70<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">400m <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 201.9pt;" valign="top" width="269">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 200m. Yarn B
200m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4ply<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3.5mm<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">50 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">200m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 201.9pt;" valign="top" width="269">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 100m. Yarn B
100m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DK<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4mm<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">40 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">140m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 201.9pt;" valign="top" width="269">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 70m. Yarn B
70m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Aran<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4.5mm<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">35<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">120m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 201.9pt;" valign="top" width="269">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 60m. Yarn B
60m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Chunky<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">6mm<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">30<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">100m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 201.9pt;" valign="top" width="269">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 50m. Yarn B
50m<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Super chunky <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 77.95pt;" valign="top" width="104">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">7mm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.15pt;" valign="top" width="123">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">25 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">90m. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yarn A 45m. Yarn B 45m</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stitch Patterns</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Garter stitch - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Knit every row<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Stocking stitch - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Knit one row, purl one row<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Vertical 2 x 2 rib (when worked from the bottom up this is
horizontal rib) - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Knit
one row. Purl 2 rows. Knit one row<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These 4 rows make the pattern<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">2 colour stripes - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Work in yarn A for 2 rows in what ever stitch pattern you
prefer. Join in yarn B and work 2 rows in yarn B. Carry yarn A up the side,
bringing the yarn in front of yarn B, being careful not to pull tight. Work 2
rows in yarn A. Carry yarn B up the side, bringing the yarn in front of yarn A,
being careful not to pull tight. Work 2 rows of yarn B. Repeat the 2 rows of
colour, always carrying the yarn you are going to work with up the side of the
work, and keeping the tension even.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The stitch patterns above are easy to learn and suitable for
beginners. You could substitute them for any stitch pattern you want to try.
You may need to adjust the cast on for other stitch patterns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are essentially making a rectangle of
fabric which will wrap around your hand, and then sewing the sides together, leaving a
hole for the thumb to poke through.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Make 2 mittens the same<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Choose your yarn and your stitch pattern. Cast on the number
of stitches appropriate to your yarn on the chart above, making sure you leave
a long tail at the beginning of your work for sewing up later. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Work in your chosen stitch pattern until the piece wraps
nearly around your palm. Alternatively measure around your palm and work to 1cm
less than your palm measures. You are working to a negative ease of 1cm.
Negative ease means the fabric will stretch around your hand, rather than be
loose around your hand (positive ease). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cast off in knit, leaving a long tail. Use the cast off tail to
sew the sides together, down to the thumb hole, and use the cast on tail to sew
up the side of the mitten to the thumb hole. I would use whip stitch to sew up
my sides. Weave in the tails and block if needed. The easiest way to find the best place for the thumb hole is to try the mitten on as you stitch. If you can’t try it on (you’re making a pair as a surprise for example) a good general rule is to make the thumb hole nearly half way down the side. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-19517464429927333682022-01-17T18:09:00.003+00:002022-01-17T18:20:06.850+00:00Leafy Cowl<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leafy cowl<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/">www.beakerbutton.co.uk</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">©Jen Best 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpGEDZFvvvvIm292406NfC0lP7txOxZNpVbMO5a_n6hTkLsGgeGUGLto3sC-qMC26Vs8Fxhtrmo5l_zKLvXov6pp3cGQIw47RTbnPUumUHPixnZQ7g6v9OmWZYyP-SrkkVraRVawxGTVcu_NcEzbedkKTgx2AmPTQCvVJ61ymWE6rRRV1LVR-En0Be1Q=s2046" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Jen best wearing her leafy cowl" border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpGEDZFvvvvIm292406NfC0lP7txOxZNpVbMO5a_n6hTkLsGgeGUGLto3sC-qMC26Vs8Fxhtrmo5l_zKLvXov6pp3cGQIw47RTbnPUumUHPixnZQ7g6v9OmWZYyP-SrkkVraRVawxGTVcu_NcEzbedkKTgx2AmPTQCvVJ61ymWE6rRRV1LVR-En0Be1Q=w480-h640" title="Leafy Cowl" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The leaf stitch was inspired by a FaceBook video from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/crochetforeverkat.kat" target="_blank">Handmade Kat.Kat</a></span></span></div><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">You will need: DK yarn in 2 colours. 100g in main colour (mc),
20g in contrast colour (cc). You could use small bits of yarn</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">approximately
40cm each for the leaf stitches if you wanted a really multicoloured cowl. Yarn
needle for sewing in ends.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tension before blocking: 18 sts x 27 rows in stocking stitch
using 3.75mm circular needles. Please bear in mind my natural tension will
probably be different from yours. To get a cowl that looks like mine you may
need to alter the needles size to get the same size stitches, and therefore the
same size garment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Cast on 200 sts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">[K1, P1] for round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">[P1, K1] for round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Repeat last two rounds - this forms four rows of moss stitch.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knit 7 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">[K9, leaf stitch] for round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knit 7 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">K4, [leaf stitch, K9] for round, ending with k5 instead of K9
on the last repeat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Repeat pattern once more, then repeat first repeat once - 5
leaf rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knit 2 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moss stitch four rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cast off in moss stitch<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Leaf Stitch - change to cc</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Insert the needle into the 5th stitch down (5 rows below the
stitch on the left needle) and knit, pulling the new stitch up to the height of
the stitches on the needle. Leave the long stitch on the right needle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Repeat for the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st stitch in the column.
Knit the stitch on the needle. Pick up the outside (1st) cc knit stitch and
lift it over all the cc stitches (as if you were casting off). Repeat for the
4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st stitches in turn (one cc stitch left on the right
needle). Continue in pattern with the main colour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">I leave tails for each leaf and tie them together once I’ve
knitted a mc round. Then I trim the tails to about 15mm and leave them. You
could strand the yarn across or weave your tails in if you prefer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Make sure to pull the 1st mc stitch tight as you work across
the cc stitch at the top of the leaf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeep8mNGX9LlzAes08L621DZEMKTrv1bQfmoejSAD6x6Y2XK7O1CfIskOTWvA3mN6DfsroZFtyleieUC_UgdiN-TzzxO8fJVAuiAjetpoOlHp3-umYjKDy2GlWfQFI_nX0prfh6IScOvlyNAk0K_StTH4UwAiMZ8BdPnBFhmJZBA2m-d8OcqUEzrtO8Q=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="leafy cowl spread out on a stone step" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeep8mNGX9LlzAes08L621DZEMKTrv1bQfmoejSAD6x6Y2XK7O1CfIskOTWvA3mN6DfsroZFtyleieUC_UgdiN-TzzxO8fJVAuiAjetpoOlHp3-umYjKDy2GlWfQFI_nX0prfh6IScOvlyNAk0K_StTH4UwAiMZ8BdPnBFhmJZBA2m-d8OcqUEzrtO8Q=w640-h480" title="Leafy cowl" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br /></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-17335403294717871092021-04-23T11:45:00.000+01:002021-04-23T11:45:31.756+01:00No Sew Mitred Square Blanket and the point of knitting!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglviUEt9HUs0FD2wCbpyr9wf2ov6-x30OsbReXPjoAQaS-7vJ4vAFF0l_GdT2B3RiIdmmtc8iKMOWvjrQyxxLTGlhvQrcsvQHbUzlnu36IVsUNdzPQuZw_oWXQ5v9yMKFgwLl9782DiuF/s2048/IMG_0439.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglviUEt9HUs0FD2wCbpyr9wf2ov6-x30OsbReXPjoAQaS-7vJ4vAFF0l_GdT2B3RiIdmmtc8iKMOWvjrQyxxLTGlhvQrcsvQHbUzlnu36IVsUNdzPQuZw_oWXQ5v9yMKFgwLl9782DiuF/w640-h480/IMG_0439.JPEG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>No Sew Mitred Square Blanket</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This was one of those projects that made me consider why I knit. I don't need a blanket. I spend most of my time overheating, especially at night so actually a blanket is probably the last thing I need. I did have a huge amount of fibre from my Mum's stash, which prompted the idea. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYl9QHG-KHyftHl0C5khN-m0lZrjFeT_e3j4uzFFnDEIynYgR4SrIu9diOY4zu9XlsGrFiEuZFB1OiKannGiHCB2HXwpESSaAfKK_686qD_p9-kh0Uw4jWOlKhIhI7-gRZYvs0KR6lsnK/s2048/IMG_4974.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1671" data-original-width="2048" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYl9QHG-KHyftHl0C5khN-m0lZrjFeT_e3j4uzFFnDEIynYgR4SrIu9diOY4zu9XlsGrFiEuZFB1OiKannGiHCB2HXwpESSaAfKK_686qD_p9-kh0Uw4jWOlKhIhI7-gRZYvs0KR6lsnK/w400-h326/IMG_4974.JPEG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>A small selection from mine and Mum's stash!</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm finding spinning very soothing at the moment, with all the crazy going on. But why a blanket? I love to knit mitred squares. They way they get smaller as you make them, the look of the stripes as they form that distinctive V. I made a jacket a couple of years ago, well more of a coat really, with the huge amount of 4ply yarns I have. That started life as a blanket, but morphed into a coat as I was working it. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggY3-1WZ2-clGkXbIHDsht1xqI55kLxPlOaak5W-T27nF4bVA0ZifGXC649iYbsVRCYxjVfdlwFQ5M2VlzfBL8dr5IwqiHZlHBsfr4fD6209T_6sKdxN5X5VTAgYJr5JBTlFNExcXemIrq/s2048/IMG_4770.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggY3-1WZ2-clGkXbIHDsht1xqI55kLxPlOaak5W-T27nF4bVA0ZifGXC649iYbsVRCYxjVfdlwFQ5M2VlzfBL8dr5IwqiHZlHBsfr4fD6209T_6sKdxN5X5VTAgYJr5JBTlFNExcXemIrq/w480-h640/IMG_4770.JPG" width="480" /></i></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Me in my Mitred Square Coat</i><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wanted something simple to work, and no sewing, and mindless, hence the blanket. Who knows, maybe next year it will be cold enough to use it. This project did it's job though, even though the finished item will probably not be used for quite some time. It wasn't about having a blanket. It was the joy of spinning with bright colours, feeling the fibre pass through my fingers and twist into glorious and sometimes unexpected colour combinations. </span></span></div><p></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmYfntnXPBZ3u0Y4RBds0bOQC5IAUpTwfzbborSftfhlINwdgPFAKvycN_Fc6BOMwRRqO7wqWUxpLc0d0RLPEw7JnR2zRcXKn-0iXvat4LVd9vUQ1-Ss375E5WdGwkUuvlRj7k1nifKKd/s2048/1FAEAC62-CAB9-4F81-A626-69079BCF5151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmYfntnXPBZ3u0Y4RBds0bOQC5IAUpTwfzbborSftfhlINwdgPFAKvycN_Fc6BOMwRRqO7wqWUxpLc0d0RLPEw7JnR2zRcXKn-0iXvat4LVd9vUQ1-Ss375E5WdGwkUuvlRj7k1nifKKd/w640-h640/1FAEAC62-CAB9-4F81-A626-69079BCF5151.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Rainbow fibre from Crafty Catty Knitty Bits having been chain plied and then skeined up</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was the little happy lift of receiving parcels through the post with fibre goodness in them, and the anticipation of how they would spin, and then knit up. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP33P1OTaAAGam24EF3LrLxocD3cWnZwUmec5PJ9kAuM5ghAF_9jTpcjTzBkIblh1BEdv56lIIl_eVznByIMbzbgutZmJt5W72x4ZrxIq59qptsACFW58szaW3-wW-vLY7I9aU2QaUPk-9/s2048/IMG_4809.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1789" data-original-width="2048" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP33P1OTaAAGam24EF3LrLxocD3cWnZwUmec5PJ9kAuM5ghAF_9jTpcjTzBkIblh1BEdv56lIIl_eVznByIMbzbgutZmJt5W72x4ZrxIq59qptsACFW58szaW3-wW-vLY7I9aU2QaUPk-9/w640-h560/IMG_4809.JPEG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>A fibre parcel from Dancing Goat Crafts, with little extras to make me smile</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was the quiet pleasure of seeing the yarn I had made forming beautiful squares one by one, and then seeing them grow and contrast with each other. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMEQRqB5ZekjqtGo2c01UWpnvWfXlz5BHLhjzUIuBnDAGz7-bmob2PgWTBgW2Wi6ta5bZlmdUlM38GjFKeQo5LaGP-wdDWktzLXIukK4fRyzh7MCMo87D_5R9DtHmVbuauXC2T4uddlscL/s2048/IMG_5025.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMEQRqB5ZekjqtGo2c01UWpnvWfXlz5BHLhjzUIuBnDAGz7-bmob2PgWTBgW2Wi6ta5bZlmdUlM38GjFKeQo5LaGP-wdDWktzLXIukK4fRyzh7MCMo87D_5R9DtHmVbuauXC2T4uddlscL/w640-h640/IMG_5025.JPEG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Mitred Square in rainbow colours</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once it got big enough it was wrapping myself underneath it as I worked on each square. It was keeping my hands busy as we watched TV so I didn't think about food! </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UL9CSqtZ6VJ8v42RHSIocI3JNc9UoSiAHDNdIBUKf71F6gYdmddK1quvc5Aq8_EGFjmwIMnNRu1D1VugOS-KIPXcMZj617dqTECHHVzpMv6ZImW8-Oe-Cq66egcPXTOHn9Zc21meg6ov/s2048/IMG_5243.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UL9CSqtZ6VJ8v42RHSIocI3JNc9UoSiAHDNdIBUKf71F6gYdmddK1quvc5Aq8_EGFjmwIMnNRu1D1VugOS-KIPXcMZj617dqTECHHVzpMv6ZImW8-Oe-Cq66egcPXTOHn9Zc21meg6ov/w480-h640/IMG_5243.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Wrapped up underneath it as I knitted each square</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was the pride that swelled as I laid it over the bed every now and then to see how it was shaping up, and that feeling of exaltation as I could see it working out how I'd imagined. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYuNPpNGUFE2qdnyYNFcDGKW3I_RioIAUOIlhaqZRVoHDeq6SqZUntyklCvwA1aT9C2WTso9IBVEuO7vb-Utkx0i2JFjqaKkyhG_YnLqGzeGXmA9ufTZwrk4R8mdvV-JY87azx8NUy5aWl/s2048/IMG_5241.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYuNPpNGUFE2qdnyYNFcDGKW3I_RioIAUOIlhaqZRVoHDeq6SqZUntyklCvwA1aT9C2WTso9IBVEuO7vb-Utkx0i2JFjqaKkyhG_YnLqGzeGXmA9ufTZwrk4R8mdvV-JY87azx8NUy5aWl/w480-h640/IMG_5241.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Checking the fit as I went along</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All these things have been the purpose of the project. The blanket is really just the bonus at the end.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHK0FAl4gz-uZa5tzDC08u2e0vnFSUpQSNlQ1OkYJV7V_l2KlbP9KSfRnbEb1Y7_YgI3IdzLz-KtLFBKGFZfKy6NiKtsyiF7R2cVR2DMJR7G3hMvYVVmLPttlq36g_MwTNiaISlE5W-FWR/s2048/IMG_0433.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHK0FAl4gz-uZa5tzDC08u2e0vnFSUpQSNlQ1OkYJV7V_l2KlbP9KSfRnbEb1Y7_YgI3IdzLz-KtLFBKGFZfKy6NiKtsyiF7R2cVR2DMJR7G3hMvYVVmLPttlq36g_MwTNiaISlE5W-FWR/w640-h480/IMG_0433.JPEG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><i>Finished blanket on my bed</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The fibre came from a variety of places. My Mum's stash, my own hand dyeing, my stash. I bought some beautiful colours from the people listed below. I'd highly recommend checking them out.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/dancing_goat_crafts?ref=rlte_std_4">https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/dancing_goat_crafts?ref=rlte_std_4</a></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.owlaboutyarn.com/">https://www.owlaboutyarn.com/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyCatKnittyBits"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyCatKnittyBits</span></a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/YarncandyCrafts">https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/YarncandyCrafts</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://catandsparrow.co.uk/">https://catandsparrow.co.uk/</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I took notes as normal so I've written them up and posted them below, in case you want to make your own No Sew Mitred Square Blanket. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No Sew Mitred square blanket</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The idea with this pattern is that you can use any yarn and make whatever size you want. Use the recommended needle size for your yarn and a circular needle 60cm cord, and cast on an odd number of stitches.</span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I used Chunky hand spun yarn, 6.5mm needles and cast on 53 sts for each square. My finished throw was 9 squares by 8 rows and it confortably covered my double bed.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Decide on your cast on and then make the first square. This will be your swatch. Once you've established the size square you want you can then work out the size of the blanket you want, and make the correct number of squares. You can also just keep making it, and trying it out, until you get the right size (which is what I did).</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To start: Cast on sts .......... </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span></div><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Square Pattern<br /></b>Knit to centre 3 sts, s1, K2tog, psso, Knit to end<br />Knit<br />Repeat last two rows until 3 sts remain<br />On the wrong side s1, K2tog, psso. Leave last stitch.<br /><i>The following sets the pattern for a cast in of 53sts<br /></i><i>K25, sl1, K1, psso, K25<br /></i><i>Knit<br /></i><i>K24, sl1, K1, psso, K24<br /></i><i>Knit<br /></i><i>K23, sl1, K1, psso, K23<br /></i><i>Knit<br /></i><i>K22, sl1, K1, psso, K22<br /></i><i>Cont decreasing 1 stitch either side of the centre decrease until 3 stitches are left<br /></i><i>On the wrong side sl1, K1, psso.<br /></i><i>Leave last stitch.</i></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Second square</span></b></div><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With the right side facing pick up each bump along the side of the square you’ve just finished, working from left to right toward the last stitch. With the right side facing join in new yarn at the right corner and cable cast on enough stitches for the next square. Take note of the amount of stitches you need to cast on for later.<br /><i>For 53 stitch cast on you will pick up 25 stitches across last square worked (26 sts with the last stitch left from the last square) and you will cable cast on 27 stitches (53 sts total)<br /></i>Repeat the square pattern as set above<br />Work as many squares as you want for the first row following the same process above. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I made 9 squares for my blanket.</span></i></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Second row (and all even rows)</span></b></div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With the right side facing, pick up the bumps along the top of the last square, working from right to left <i>(for a 53 cast on pick up 26 st)</i>. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Join in new yarn in the right hand corner and cable cast on the amount you noted earlier <i>(for 53 stitch cast on that would be 27 stitches).</i></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Work the square pattern.</span></div><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With right side facing, working from left to right, pick up bumps along the top of the next square in row below, and up the side of the square you’ve just made until you reach the remaining stitch, making sure you have the same amount of stitches as your original cast on. <br />Work square pattern. Repeat the last paragraph for the remainder of the row.</span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Third row (and odd rows)</span></b></div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With right side facing pick up stitches from right to left across the top of the last square <i>(26 sts including the last stitch for a 53 st cast on). </i></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Join in new yarn at the start of the row and work until one stitch remains on the left needle. Slip this stitch, thumb cast on 2 sts onto the right needle and slip them back to the left needle ready to work, knit the two thumb cast on sts together, pass the slipped stitch over. Thumb cast on the remaining normal amount of stitches <i>(25 for a 53 st cast on)<br /></i>Work the square pattern starting from row 2 (you have worked row 1 already when you cast on your stitches for this square).<br />For each of the next squares pick up the stitches in the same way as on row 2 but from right to left. Join in the new colour with the right side facing and on the right side of the square. Work the square pattern as normal.<br />Work the odd and even rows in turn until your throw is big enough. Leave the last stitch to begin the edging</span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Edging. </span></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can change to larger needle if your cast off is normally tight. This edgeing will provide a little stability for the garter stitch edge and stop it stretching. It provides a nice band around the blanket. <br />With right side facing pick up the stitches along one square <i>(25 sts for a 53 st cast on)</i>. K2, cast 1 st off, *K1, cast off* repeat across the square. Once you have 1 sts left pick up the next square and repeat. Work your way along the edge of the blanket to the first corner stitch. Kfbf into the corner st. Slip 2 sts back to the left needle and cast off the 3rd, slip the next st back to the right needle and cast off 1, slip the last stitch to the right needle and cast off 1.<br />Continue picking up stitches and casting off all the way around, working the corners as above. Fasten off and weave in tails. Block lightly. Snuggle underneath!</span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Notes</span></b></div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I weave my tails in after each square. Saves having them all to do at the end. 2 tails at a time is much easier than facing them all at once. I wove mine down the 'seams' between the squares.</span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I’m joining on yarn halfway through a square I join in at the start of the right side row and weave the tails in after finishing the square as it looks nicer with the garter st.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I will block my blanket by spreading it out in the garden and giving it a light spray with Soakwash. It will help to keep the ends in better, but be much easier to manage than wet blocking. </span></span></div>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-67808882546489636582021-02-01T13:27:00.001+00:002021-02-01T13:27:27.869+00:00Forest Bathing<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I recently came across the phrase Forset Bathing. My initial reaction was unrepeatable here, and frankly rude. If my mother was around to hear my language.....</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1EgpAqXcCve1TAVtAsql2aNkHzcg3z91cuirzXRXPVtsBKoSPex1NrSdIJgYh5ttCneunE9jixaakILbvbtvxVnHrzDuVIqAYfLwuRCSOaUqe8loQcVVMyCs7clE85zl8oe4UylvZjmQ/s2048/IMG_3704.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="view of a summer forest" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1EgpAqXcCve1TAVtAsql2aNkHzcg3z91cuirzXRXPVtsBKoSPex1NrSdIJgYh5ttCneunE9jixaakILbvbtvxVnHrzDuVIqAYfLwuRCSOaUqe8loQcVVMyCs7clE85zl8oe4UylvZjmQ/w439-h329/IMG_3704.JPG" width="439" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEUFlERtO-5kIVkTSegDSQU0lJ2vROSB0GioulXsqgRs1IfwkIO46WntNtZA4prCDDJAfd7_qsTRT8B8OgaHKoaW1N447mQHfwj9ATX3FStsmzT4CffLPpqfTAFF-FDLa59JD6LOWmU0y/s2048/IMG_3731.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="view of a summer forest" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEUFlERtO-5kIVkTSegDSQU0lJ2vROSB0GioulXsqgRs1IfwkIO46WntNtZA4prCDDJAfd7_qsTRT8B8OgaHKoaW1N447mQHfwj9ATX3FStsmzT4CffLPpqfTAFF-FDLa59JD6LOWmU0y/w336-h448/IMG_3731.JPG" width="336" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then there was a lovely piece in Country File a couple of weeks ago about Forset Bathing and I thought, 'but I've been doing that all my life!' So, what is forest bathing? This definitition from <a href="https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/forest-bathing" target="_blank">Forestry England</a> says it best.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">'This Japanese practice is a process of relaxation; known in Japan as </span><i style="font-family: arial;">shinrin yoko. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">The simple method of being calm and quiet amongst the trees, observing nature around you whilst breathing deeply can hekp both adults and children de-stress and boost health and wellbeing in a natural way.' </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V2-ZQpf0czCTeZXe1MhnR-vLwTrmlcfg08yME2iLByyRyRVzfnRKqo_0j3adFu18z5ff7VEewPJwK__zwvJ2C5uPakEZZPXVCtP69eKsgkvatZzxdvX8zt2UvQIBVSyn6Gv7qZOPZPDG/s2048/IMG_3865.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="view of bare branches against the sky, taken from underneath" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V2-ZQpf0czCTeZXe1MhnR-vLwTrmlcfg08yME2iLByyRyRVzfnRKqo_0j3adFu18z5ff7VEewPJwK__zwvJ2C5uPakEZZPXVCtP69eKsgkvatZzxdvX8zt2UvQIBVSyn6Gv7qZOPZPDG/w301-h401/IMG_3865.JPG" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5MQydredAIxwaYT7TgP8a4G2AkelRLSdEwrFbrdskJ_lkDyGSapKIdIcrb0GAm1ytVP15FtJOedBQLUe3icH351DicAwXaTXJGofdIPaHldS4dpEgWJBU6BEfsSUiyUkOOuFH4ogJ622/s2048/IMG_3346.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="light filtering through a forest" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5MQydredAIxwaYT7TgP8a4G2AkelRLSdEwrFbrdskJ_lkDyGSapKIdIcrb0GAm1ytVP15FtJOedBQLUe3icH351DicAwXaTXJGofdIPaHldS4dpEgWJBU6BEfsSUiyUkOOuFH4ogJ622/w397-h298/IMG_3346.JPG" width="397" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7osYVgYdm5Gmdua8KnZfzSTjW7jH2cSsa1t8JIuQGcgAu1CtaD_26KrjfwUEUE1135LXGGu1qmP0G7lmr_DGpDmF1HPnclZX6wPakde6x-Ewd1XQDjQS3n9AkSXdgkKKMPQt2QAOGRyf/s2048/IMG_3749.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="a forest pool with light filtering through the trees" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7osYVgYdm5Gmdua8KnZfzSTjW7jH2cSsa1t8JIuQGcgAu1CtaD_26KrjfwUEUE1135LXGGu1qmP0G7lmr_DGpDmF1HPnclZX6wPakde6x-Ewd1XQDjQS3n9AkSXdgkKKMPQt2QAOGRyf/w302-h403/IMG_3749.JPG" width="302" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I love being in forests. The birdsong and the wind in the leaves helps to distract me from my tinnitus. The cruch of leaves under foot and the splash of the odd puddle never fails to lift my spirits. My son laughs at me as I spend plently of time with my hands on the trunk of a tree just feeling the texture and communing with him (I'm not sure why but I always think of trees as male). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjz1oJ3Jrc_2t50OztSLKIc2Ff7wG1oYiyhGprzHoButUPCmiQMjn77akUeyB5qscZ6K1ZtXWozRVrhEZuToxLHoqGmOYazynxCgyf8_p75s489_pZ821XO0HWIWdJn2LzM3s9ws68Ele/s2048/IMG_4485.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="giant oak tree not yet in leaf" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjz1oJ3Jrc_2t50OztSLKIc2Ff7wG1oYiyhGprzHoButUPCmiQMjn77akUeyB5qscZ6K1ZtXWozRVrhEZuToxLHoqGmOYazynxCgyf8_p75s489_pZ821XO0HWIWdJn2LzM3s9ws68Ele/w326-h435/IMG_4485.JPG" width="326" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPEPl4vEJFHNJ_FJy-PPtkZ3_2glBbO7tl3HoXaUM5OvX9Gzq6Ed894hLZ17zgt7NMFuKW4YkblLvdglCf-aStemPJsGUmfI_U8pCqD_voJvpvZjxhVUzLd7YIiX-fQ1-qe9G9ml0A9TT/s2048/IMG_5121.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="view of fir trees from underneath, with the sky above as contrast" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPEPl4vEJFHNJ_FJy-PPtkZ3_2glBbO7tl3HoXaUM5OvX9Gzq6Ed894hLZ17zgt7NMFuKW4YkblLvdglCf-aStemPJsGUmfI_U8pCqD_voJvpvZjxhVUzLd7YIiX-fQ1-qe9G9ml0A9TT/w313-h417/IMG_5121.JPG" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgItgKyJ-Os0DjtCNSknb2PnZTChc8Lr6hj7K6QT_gN99FE0rYQGgyNk2z1j2-s8B3tve3HMdH8PS4d115dtLpN33zzqIUFubpSWNIYW7O3Xd3ebzEi1GkPeaXQq5UntxuAo3JosrMfrkDU/s2048/IMG_4670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="line of beech trees in autumn" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgItgKyJ-Os0DjtCNSknb2PnZTChc8Lr6hj7K6QT_gN99FE0rYQGgyNk2z1j2-s8B3tve3HMdH8PS4d115dtLpN33zzqIUFubpSWNIYW7O3Xd3ebzEi1GkPeaXQq5UntxuAo3JosrMfrkDU/w394-h295/IMG_4670.JPG" width="394" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Different forests produce different feelings in me. We recently scrambled through a patch of scrubby woodland near our house. It was just like being a child again, evoking that sense of exploration and adventure; following tiny paths to who knows where, scrambling over brush, and splashing through puddles. Majestic soaring beach trees bring back memories of Sunday afternoon family walks where we would be up whatever trees we could managed and the olds would stroll by underneath. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0T7R-Hk90LTkIUKPlG4qCk8fvsW8I9QR9uuPYptwNCl5JEOCSBGauZWpiYPrSPBqwKyRigmJnbUNxYzCOHsT9Sw7f0QlCs8OHLSb6WcI0-bzSW-Pa6IDJi1ZkGWH0f42oJutSBAi9G2q/s2048/IMG_4725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="path through the trees" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0T7R-Hk90LTkIUKPlG4qCk8fvsW8I9QR9uuPYptwNCl5JEOCSBGauZWpiYPrSPBqwKyRigmJnbUNxYzCOHsT9Sw7f0QlCs8OHLSb6WcI0-bzSW-Pa6IDJi1ZkGWH0f42oJutSBAi9G2q/w313-h417/IMG_4725.JPG" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBP5VjlWIs2vWZhEOLfpurYjVGkV-n7TCPcV4DtiaD9vy5DJHoFHAlmh_MX9eGh_BiEP7ZuqtdeR7iom5O39RQz5RILMvk7Bj0dSyzKbYYOWfA3RyTUM0Ga3GTsJ1XZ_zYCU3b-8I7TRPC/s2048/IMG_5122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="twisted tree in the forest" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBP5VjlWIs2vWZhEOLfpurYjVGkV-n7TCPcV4DtiaD9vy5DJHoFHAlmh_MX9eGh_BiEP7ZuqtdeR7iom5O39RQz5RILMvk7Bj0dSyzKbYYOWfA3RyTUM0Ga3GTsJ1XZ_zYCU3b-8I7TRPC/w285-h380/IMG_5122.JPG" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6OQz6Qdk8vnLJt-cHavvNLJ1yRWhw4jt25uA52xvxmZLqstwt338iqvk6nSs9oXhvKrdd6Sm5ko6vR673cJ3kdvhSOyIBa1o3D7i2vr2oj88xZ1ACB9ZtOruObZ-DwOjEWnId09zYAKE/s2048/IMG_5124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="bracnhes on the forest floor covered in moss" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6OQz6Qdk8vnLJt-cHavvNLJ1yRWhw4jt25uA52xvxmZLqstwt338iqvk6nSs9oXhvKrdd6Sm5ko6vR673cJ3kdvhSOyIBa1o3D7i2vr2oj88xZ1ACB9ZtOruObZ-DwOjEWnId09zYAKE/w305-h407/IMG_5124.JPG" width="305" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Each season produces subtly different atmospheres, and weather can give a happy uplifting mood, or a moody and deliciously scary feel. The light slanting through the trees often affirms my belief that there is magic in the world, and that if I look hard enough there will be dragons and fairies around the next corner. That magical feeling, which we take for granted as children and tend to lose as adults, has come back to me on many forest walks, and my spirits never fail to lift when it does.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3murbzHXI9MYtN-0zToRS8-AeZ43_rd2gH_cwypTrY3Xv2STp5BEPZUSO6W2fNH04Worid9M4EHUKs6vBVDY_Plb4Sz9ag3uVWVSkqIojR5ERAsVbcBUhbAd1Cl5GB83rz3O0GJnBH2aG/s2048/IMG_3125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="forest fern" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3murbzHXI9MYtN-0zToRS8-AeZ43_rd2gH_cwypTrY3Xv2STp5BEPZUSO6W2fNH04Worid9M4EHUKs6vBVDY_Plb4Sz9ag3uVWVSkqIojR5ERAsVbcBUhbAd1Cl5GB83rz3O0GJnBH2aG/w291-h388/IMG_3125.JPG" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DjQpdtNy309nSnlcb7_c_GHkHgi9whya_JBOxil_eLhF0v_gyGtnNDUvFTdtyx7zzYpmKg2LZ05D_rdyTre6pZwM8ZobWSLYqoCIwyYWmrzvxED5VG0vTmwyMjdxWqZI7Gm2chzktOcD/s2048/IMG_3126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="old tree trunk with fungi" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DjQpdtNy309nSnlcb7_c_GHkHgi9whya_JBOxil_eLhF0v_gyGtnNDUvFTdtyx7zzYpmKg2LZ05D_rdyTre6pZwM8ZobWSLYqoCIwyYWmrzvxED5VG0vTmwyMjdxWqZI7Gm2chzktOcD/w363-h272/IMG_3126.JPG" width="363" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif2WkG7mvG3oVe4dxjb1HNg8G5tjzyYEePF5qDb_59yw0BNjpZu0HAHEEiXAYVH682JwECG9sAcU7MwVPD40NghWQspb92407JStp2VMO2n0xH3aaW5t7KVDVo4vrCoh_ZzUwC8v-gqw6B/s2048/IMG_3277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fungi on tree trunk" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif2WkG7mvG3oVe4dxjb1HNg8G5tjzyYEePF5qDb_59yw0BNjpZu0HAHEEiXAYVH682JwECG9sAcU7MwVPD40NghWQspb92407JStp2VMO2n0xH3aaW5t7KVDVo4vrCoh_ZzUwC8v-gqw6B/w307-h409/IMG_3277.JPG" width="307" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjACYuuH7byU85KYN-8dKIdDRhq7G29KYBtnS_-xtx-xakEe1XM-TjwY6Evq2zyBgc9AxyWu3wXQ2lFumW_0QGALfAMjKTn9C-sECT2Rx1nMpwO2rKJCHKDAvLs6dy5TOwv9usSyomsmG2X/s2048/IMG_3282.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red sycamore leaf" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjACYuuH7byU85KYN-8dKIdDRhq7G29KYBtnS_-xtx-xakEe1XM-TjwY6Evq2zyBgc9AxyWu3wXQ2lFumW_0QGALfAMjKTn9C-sECT2Rx1nMpwO2rKJCHKDAvLs6dy5TOwv9usSyomsmG2X/w309-h412/IMG_3282.JPG" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3B_OUfKkp5Ux9JuYxq1cAWsMOXFGKWZzT_ftfM35Jn8s8VtRAuypkyxKppRlAwDmtuJWadBB35ySG4yxWDMTD0oeePen6VsDXbUndE7R3WjcZ9L8P29-9NDmZbC2OyoFkXBarHOomOPW/s2048/IMG_5117.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mossy lichen on a branch" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3B_OUfKkp5Ux9JuYxq1cAWsMOXFGKWZzT_ftfM35Jn8s8VtRAuypkyxKppRlAwDmtuJWadBB35ySG4yxWDMTD0oeePen6VsDXbUndE7R3WjcZ9L8P29-9NDmZbC2OyoFkXBarHOomOPW/w372-h279/IMG_5117.JPG" width="372" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I love the abundance of things to look at, and photograph. My phone is full of tree bark, fungi, leaves, moss and my favourite of all, the sun setting behind bare branches. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcWQMUh2_0mygM0MP7Jx4dvaGNbZaiEgQQ_vxfCqU_sDqJTtpQLRX9Q1eRf-41KaedkUWj5D9MUTOMxCvUqEmQP8vXai4YLFMeuVvApSMVr-DLHdZjfqIPenX5uHA6toMkC7ugZQ2b_LR/s2048/IMG_4730.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sun setting behind trees" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcWQMUh2_0mygM0MP7Jx4dvaGNbZaiEgQQ_vxfCqU_sDqJTtpQLRX9Q1eRf-41KaedkUWj5D9MUTOMxCvUqEmQP8vXai4YLFMeuVvApSMVr-DLHdZjfqIPenX5uHA6toMkC7ugZQ2b_LR/w467-h350/IMG_4730.JPG" width="467" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Walking into a wood for me is akin to walking into the sea on a summers day. That immediate sense of cool all over the body, of enclosure. There is a magic in trees, and if you stand still and just feel whats around you, it will seep into you and leave you feeling at peace. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPdv0TZdNlyiTgOb-h0Ifx0lz86uGcIQIz6OaggmY4ZIwS_TCIHtelIfWSWb0oeXn_s1761AM-hF4Vy4KhdOSzu19UhO6UtFIrcHxiYlf2xsESg4lncEzad5uvFxPKAZ_Kt6NBaGwolAN/s2048/IMG_3849.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="autumn walk through the woods" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPdv0TZdNlyiTgOb-h0Ifx0lz86uGcIQIz6OaggmY4ZIwS_TCIHtelIfWSWb0oeXn_s1761AM-hF4Vy4KhdOSzu19UhO6UtFIrcHxiYlf2xsESg4lncEzad5uvFxPKAZ_Kt6NBaGwolAN/w429-h322/IMG_3849.JPG" width="429" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In honour of trees I've added some of my tree charts for you to play with. You can either knit or corchet them them as the colourwork of your choice, or work the white squares in knit and the black squares in purl (and reverse on the wrong side). They can go together as cushions or blankets, or perhaps a wall hanging. I would recommend using the needle size on the ball band and if using as a blanket or wall hanging, adding a simple garter stitch border will flatten them out nicely. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCR1J0f0fUso0LUY59oDkFnlD82f2TENVB7Acx9-UGFJPiEEdcqwH798ToPXVePVUVH1yLQ0ctB2GdZMS6ZPfqxmnPIcfMlMxSEUSaxjfZ6Ms7MFah3UEtsfg08OLwafnOMIycYMcVFKq/s734/fair+isle+trees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fair Isle knitting chart" border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="734" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCR1J0f0fUso0LUY59oDkFnlD82f2TENVB7Acx9-UGFJPiEEdcqwH798ToPXVePVUVH1yLQ0ctB2GdZMS6ZPfqxmnPIcfMlMxSEUSaxjfZ6Ms7MFah3UEtsfg08OLwafnOMIycYMcVFKq/w582-h409/fair+isle+trees.jpg" width="582" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8qqnd0A5EqTDBVp048ziwzZTXcVI-Ga4EBe1RH_qEfnbADamGRVG2j0uhNA4BhUXr1xdysUztqMmQUYY65BvFTxbHOSnIokjbA1ta6eF6vEz6a6e5AHie-JaF8o9NKGh3Aw8KLW0FEHP/s888/oak+leaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="oak leaf knitting chart" border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="888" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8qqnd0A5EqTDBVp048ziwzZTXcVI-Ga4EBe1RH_qEfnbADamGRVG2j0uhNA4BhUXr1xdysUztqMmQUYY65BvFTxbHOSnIokjbA1ta6eF6vEz6a6e5AHie-JaF8o9NKGh3Aw8KLW0FEHP/w591-h365/oak+leaf.jpg" width="591" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd9dEWBbvOKwRltOpR1eh_VxnCgJGcrGyc1Ash9fJ5llz-PM3LMlvZSc3CYqLkr9urnTHosVJOY3UTbO211Rs5iPGTqXCdqyTz_qKHRI7x3FxjWfMKlVs9jknuuhdJi-MMaN5HEldugVLo/s876/poplars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="poplars knitting chart" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="876" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd9dEWBbvOKwRltOpR1eh_VxnCgJGcrGyc1Ash9fJ5llz-PM3LMlvZSc3CYqLkr9urnTHosVJOY3UTbO211Rs5iPGTqXCdqyTz_qKHRI7x3FxjWfMKlVs9jknuuhdJi-MMaN5HEldugVLo/w583-h367/poplars.jpg" width="583" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #1e2522; color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #1e2522; color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-146301084738664592020-12-30T20:39:00.000+00:002020-12-30T20:39:22.092+00:00Sloppy Christmas Jumper<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Every year I make myself a Christmas jumper. I don't mean it has reindeer or snowmen on the front, or a nice nativity scene with the baby Jesus lying in a manger plastered across my stomach. It's a jumper I begin on Christmas day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I rarely get to knit something for myself. Mostly I'm knitting samples, designing new things, or knitting socks for my sock hungry family ( we're funding research into where the second sock goes after you wash it). At Christmas I rebel. I take time to plan what I want, to research the yarn and pattern, to think about the style of garment I'd like and what I'm going to use it for (walking jumper, mooching about jumper, gardening jumper etc). I organise my stash in the hope that I can use the yarn from it (never happens of course, I'm saving my stash for the apocolypse. Not this one, the real one, where there are zombies and all the yarn shops have already been looted). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year I decided to use the fibre I'd inhereted from my Mum. I've been spinning it up and chain plying it into a chunky weight yarn since the first lockdown. I have masses of hand spun skeins now, and still masses of fibre to spin. Anyone who knew my Mum will be nodding their heads and chuckling to themselves at this point. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizoythS9t1fy55HpyKHII0WY0wJkYZPtPKaYwit9Iz9tu3CS4UNzRngN91PGJoRiINkQginyX7hKveBLiOFZqhv2M6-aZ35eH6RE87Ab6UiDKHN5pD3l8aXPH-Yly2X_pJWMQHkn0J4MFT/s320/IMG_4165.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a tiny portion of my Mum's fibre stash. There isn't a camera with a large enough lens!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizoythS9t1fy55HpyKHII0WY0wJkYZPtPKaYwit9Iz9tu3CS4UNzRngN91PGJoRiINkQginyX7hKveBLiOFZqhv2M6-aZ35eH6RE87Ab6UiDKHN5pD3l8aXPH-Yly2X_pJWMQHkn0J4MFT/s1632/IMG_4165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="1294" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTLLFiSTQQKdA8392ipyRX8eP7UEEagIxBD7joXasESOSE0MVeT_jQhT69EIvVclOOvzTLVuZqqoLCKPGVM0pisq4x42vMAvVROBoC1g0PsM9vkrF8IG3f6DGJEInUxiyArMQtYzC5xGs/s320/IMG_3483.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand spun single </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTLLFiSTQQKdA8392ipyRX8eP7UEEagIxBD7joXasESOSE0MVeT_jQhT69EIvVclOOvzTLVuZqqoLCKPGVM0pisq4x42vMAvVROBoC1g0PsM9vkrF8IG3f6DGJEInUxiyArMQtYzC5xGs/s1545/IMG_3483.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="1536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZutkisOXOCkL7IeNy0ZX3U3VsBnc3bNIccNuJwhIQPZLIMSsX9Xdqg1g3f2ejrNsn_AeQynK3cODIJP3gCbsy4dnnCuSZ5-zlymFvb04S49IHRKbrKzH8UoGuWReaMptNdh5aUCJ4cCqe/s320/IMG_3511.JPEG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chain plied yarn</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZutkisOXOCkL7IeNy0ZX3U3VsBnc3bNIccNuJwhIQPZLIMSsX9Xdqg1g3f2ejrNsn_AeQynK3cODIJP3gCbsy4dnnCuSZ5-zlymFvb04S49IHRKbrKzH8UoGuWReaMptNdh5aUCJ4cCqe/s1536/IMG_3511.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've wanted a sloppy Joe for ages. My son asked me whether it was a good idea to wear a pizza, although I've translated that into a polite phrase (the words he used aren't fit to be repeated and yes, I did threaten to wash his mouth out). Apparently sloppy Joe is now a pizza flavour. When I was his age it was a slouchy, sloppy jumper of indeterminate shape, which you could curl up in and feel like you were being hugged. In my case I wanted to knit a hug </span><span style="font-family: arial;">from my Mum. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8zsBKFrPdzBLibAlwEPIuHXOWBdGe1uHzAA0QiVXRQUOWYt_TzVnNXcMVF6NZiFGoDLDfUdXAVBUfAxsXP8usx6NULFRh0kvUQr9boF0qpqerDGtvNpXDKesH0tKWOL3Ow1N3lHNPSFpm/s320/IMG_4689.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beginnings of my knitted hug</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I always write notes as I'm going along if I'm making it up myself. I've translated my notes into a sort of recipe below, in case you want to make your own Sloppy Christmas Jumper. </span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sloppy Christmas Jumper Recipe<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1446" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2xYVeUNRe7C0qBnK2lkQdDvRvBSnbzJmxF9Xlsa-2nHKLN6HPBUclsRmBHro6ipbt20vMiqiBmo1zKMyfMsMx0fvXzhsePqKLKirC60w_Swmkb6_2Hhj35vRbCOkjKDoouZltUP2jGiMZ/s320/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front view (no snowmen in sight!)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2xYVeUNRe7C0qBnK2lkQdDvRvBSnbzJmxF9Xlsa-2nHKLN6HPBUclsRmBHro6ipbt20vMiqiBmo1zKMyfMsMx0fvXzhsePqKLKirC60w_Swmkb6_2Hhj35vRbCOkjKDoouZltUP2jGiMZ/s2048/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XgWTW6tasBBHdSL4NmHZkAis2bznYFcFBXPtLJYhmFiYEchwd9Fmur55HeAkMQmBfQ067EKzNcUSSd1cwoU-B8-sQ2_lLQ8uINZBLnrrurOCaMP-0aq8ameb4_T_bFsuVA9GN80_9_lg/s2048/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1558" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XgWTW6tasBBHdSL4NmHZkAis2bznYFcFBXPtLJYhmFiYEchwd9Fmur55HeAkMQmBfQ067EKzNcUSSd1cwoU-B8-sQ2_lLQ8uINZBLnrrurOCaMP-0aq8ameb4_T_bFsuVA9GN80_9_lg/s320/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25281%2529.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back view (no snowmen hiding back here either)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIgXKeDDmktA0UpAlJhBSjkeohPyp1SB2gcctHLSElq1OFZ2qchOLnUXM6hnmt9tfJUxJc1q2yIY0l0z6y-dDxA6yTGBYD68M9LPyVrbkBGplS4XGmGxXgVEHOyf0A6rPckrpW4KNfagM/s2048/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIgXKeDDmktA0UpAlJhBSjkeohPyp1SB2gcctHLSElq1OFZ2qchOLnUXM6hnmt9tfJUxJc1q2yIY0l0z6y-dDxA6yTGBYD68M9LPyVrbkBGplS4XGmGxXgVEHOyf0A6rPckrpW4KNfagM/s320/sloppy+joe+jumper+recipe+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side view (obviously)</td></tr></tbody></table></span></b><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk">www.beakerbutton.co.uk</a></span></b><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">©Jen Best 2020</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a recipe rather than a pattern. You need a few simple
measurements and a little maths. Your tension needs to be the same as mine so
please swatch and adjust your needle size accordingly. This jumper is designed
to be worn with about 10cm positive ease. You can try this jumper on as you
work, to check hem and arm length. It is knitted in the round from the hem up
to the arm, then worked back and forth in separate sections for the back and
front panels. The shoulder seams are grafted using Kitchener stitch (you can
cast off and stitch the shoulders if you prefer but grafting means there are no
seams). The sleeves are worked by picking up stitches around the sleeve edge
and knitting down towards the cuff in the round.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tension</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">: 12 stitch x 14 rows in stocking stitch over 10cm squared. I used 6.5mm
circular needles on a 100cm cable to get this gauge, you will need to swatch as
your tension may not be the same as mine.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">You will need</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">: circular needles for body with a 80-100cm cord depending on
how many stitches you cast on, and 40cm or dpns in the same size for the sleeves
(or long cable if you prefer to work using the magic loop technique for
knitting small circumferences in the round); chunky hand spun yarn (a rough
guide for amounts is below); long ribbon or stitch holders; stitch marker; yarn
needle for grafting and weaving in ends.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Measure your body following the guide below. The formula will
work out the number of stitches you need to cast on for your jumper. The length
of body and sleeves is measured in centimetres, and you can double check by
trying your jumper on as you go.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Measurements in cm for recipe: </b>write your measurements on the dotted lines. The colour coded letters should help your find the correct place to put them in the pattern.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Underarm to hem: <b><span style="color: #c00000;">A ……………</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Underarm to top of shoulder: <b><span style="color: #00b050;">B
………….</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bust circumference (around widest part): <b><span style="color: #0070c0;">C ………….</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wrist to middle of bicep: <b><span style="color: #7030a0;">D
……….</span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Formula for working out cast on stitches:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0;">C …….</span></b>
\ 10 x 12 + 12 = number of cast on stitches: <b><span style="color: #ffc000;">E
……..</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rough guide to yarn amounts based on bust measurement plus
10cm. I would recommend getting more than you need, as this is a very rough
guide and will depend on how long you want your jumper, and your sleeve length. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">92cm – 650m chunky yarn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">102cm – 720m chunky yarn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">112cm – 800m chunky yarn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">122cm – 900m </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">chunky</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> yarn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">132cm – 1050m </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">chunky</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> yarn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">142cm – 1150m </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">chunky </span><span style="font-family: arial;">yarn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">152cm – 1400m </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">chunky </span><span style="font-family: arial;">yarn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Abbreviations<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">K2tog tbl – knit 2 stitches together through the back loop,
gives a left leaning decrease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">K2tog – knit 2 stitches together, gives a right leaning
decrease.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Body<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cast on <b><span style="color: #ffc000;">E ………</span></b> stitches.
Join to work in the round being careful not to twist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit 2 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Purl 1 round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat the last 3 rounds twice more<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Work in stocking stitch (knit every round) until work
measures <span style="color: #c00000;">A ……….</span>cm from the cast on.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Divide stitches in half for front and back, making sure to
have an even number at front and an even number at back. If your division gives
you an odd number of stitches put the extra stitch at the front (for example
170 stitches would divide into 85 stitches. I would put 84 stitches at the back
and 86 stitches at the front). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit front stitches and place on holder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Work backwards and forwards from now on.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Back<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit half the back stitches, place a marker, knit remaining
half of the back stitches<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Continue in stocking stitch on remaining back stitches for <b><span style="color: #00b050;">B …….</span></b> cm from divide, slipping the marker as
you work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">End after a wrong side row. Make a note of how many rows you
work so you can match them for the front. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit to 10 stitches before the marker and place these
stitches on a stitch holder, cast off 20 stitches in knit, removing the stitch
marker as you work, knit remaining back stitches and place on holder. Make a
note of how many stitches you cast off so you can match them for the front
shoulder.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Front<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Work on remaining front stitches. Knit half the front stitches,
place marker, knit remaining half of the front stitches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Continue in stocking stitch on remaining front stitches for
10cm from divide, slipping the marker as you work (if you want a higher or
lower V neck this is where you need to alter things. Work more rows for a
higher neckline and less rows for a lower neck line). End after a wrong side
row.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Divide for V neck<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit to marker and leave stitches on a holder. Drop the
marker at this point.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the remaining front stitches:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">K1, K2tog tbl, Knit to end<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Purl<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat last 2 rows until the same number of stitches remain
as the corresponding back shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Continue in stocking stitch until work measures the same as
the back (count the rows to be accurate). Leave a very long tail for grafting
shoulders together.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Join yarn to remaining stitches with right side facing you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit to last 3 stitches, K2tog, K1<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Purl<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat last 2 rows until same amount of stitches remain as
the corresponding back shoulder remain.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Continue in stocking stitch until work measures the same as
the back. Leave a very long tail for grafting shoulders together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Graft back and front corresponding shoulders together.
Alternatively you can cast the shoulders off in knit and back stitch them
together.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Grafting (Kitchener Stitch)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Line the stitches up so they are parallel with each other.
Thread the tail onto a yarn needle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hold
the needles together in your left hand and the wool needle in your right
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When making the stitches try to
match the tension of your knitted stitches. It’s better to be too loose and
tighten the stitches at the end, than pull too tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kitchener stitch is essentially grafting two
sets of live stitches together with another row of stitches created by the yarn
needle, giving a seamless join.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 1: Pass the wool needle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">knitwise </b>through the back stitch.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 2: Pass the wool needle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">purlwise</b> through the front stitch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 3: Pass the wool needle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">purlwise </b>through the back stitch. Take the stitch off the needle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 4: Pass the wool needle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">knitwise</b> through the back stitch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 5: Pass the wool needle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">knitwise </b>through the front stitch. Take the stitch off the needle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat step 2 to 5 until all the stitches are grafted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sleeve<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Beginning at the bottom of the armhole, pick up evenly around
armhole, 2 stitches for every 3 rows of body. Place a stitch marker at the
start of the round. It’s neater to pick up the inside leg of the last stitch in
the row. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Work in stocking stitch until the cuff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit 4 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Round 5 is the decrease round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit to last 2 stitches, slip 2 stitches knitwise, remove
marker, K1, pass slipped stitches over, replace marker (new start of round).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat the last 5 rounds until work measures <b><span style="color: #7030a0;">D ……</span></b> cm from picked up stitches.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cuff<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Purl 1 round<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Knit 2 rounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Repeat last 3 rounds twice more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cast off in knit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Work the opposite sleeve in the same way.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Weave in tails and block lightly. If you have a slight hole
under the arm then use the tail from picking up the stitches to close the hole
up before weaving it in. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cukurwqktylzzwy/Sloppy%20Christmas%20Jumper.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">PDF of pattern</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-22748145974613677922020-11-30T13:57:00.001+00:002020-12-06T14:59:12.082+00:00Shirtlace or Dorset button?<p>I had an interesting Facebook exchange with someone yesterday regarding some new thread buttons I've been teaching myself to make. These buttons are called shirtlace buttons, also known as zwirnkopfe, which means thread button. They are often mistaken for Dorset buttons, because they're hand stitched around a ring, but they are made differently and from a not from Dorset. I thought it might be a good idea to try and explain the difference here. </p><p>Dorset buttons are made by stitching in a blanket stitch around a ring (casting), turning the ridge around the edge into the middle (slicking), wrapping the thread around the ring to form spokes (laying), and then stitching in a back stitch over the spokes to form the inside pattern. Dorset buttons were made all over East Dorset, and sent all over the world. They were started by Abraham Case in 1622 and were an industry until 1851. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYN651feZ13LqFU0kMMjQZa4lDSRLL81A3rraofdtXi6Aa_LlrhQBIsZEk-JQNOliuvC7DSvO6c0oWE-J26IOUPvEnDhdnjFHbdTMdCHYKMKjnKq0_eLBmGW34LNHUfDaVeJaT7bSD9Crj/s480/2017-06-28+12.18.40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYN651feZ13LqFU0kMMjQZa4lDSRLL81A3rraofdtXi6Aa_LlrhQBIsZEk-JQNOliuvC7DSvO6c0oWE-J26IOUPvEnDhdnjFHbdTMdCHYKMKjnKq0_eLBmGW34LNHUfDaVeJaT7bSD9Crj/w391-h400/2017-06-28+12.18.40.jpg" title="Dorset buttons made by Jen Best Beaker Button" width="391" /></a></div><br /><p>I know very little about the history of Shirtlace buttons, other than they were made in Germany, Austria and northern Europe. They are made by wrapping the thread around a ring first, which creates the pattern. Then the exposed sections of the ring are blanket stitched around and the wrapped threads are secured in place with stitches at the same time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1vUkhiPhIf2yFXU0_kIK2w-JFQYDZC9j4mvO5wynLX40jlFDqVprSa0EKCPCbcpsN6nclknGT7wpcs52Dvbwl_bbEiWlugQ-U342Z7mohGYm8chppF5iLt3P7KNMaoA9Xb-Sp4lq00le/s2048/CDF43C0B-79B1-40D6-8DC5-78DE5A3DE5C9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1vUkhiPhIf2yFXU0_kIK2w-JFQYDZC9j4mvO5wynLX40jlFDqVprSa0EKCPCbcpsN6nclknGT7wpcs52Dvbwl_bbEiWlugQ-U342Z7mohGYm8chppF5iLt3P7KNMaoA9Xb-Sp4lq00le/w400-h400/CDF43C0B-79B1-40D6-8DC5-78DE5A3DE5C9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>The best analogy I came up with is this. If you think of thread buttons as DOG, Dorset buttons, zwirnkopfe, Macclesfield silk buttons, Leek buttons and deaths head buttons are all different breeds. Dorset buttons are a thread button, not all thread buttons are Dorset buttons! </p><p>For instructions on how to make a Dorset button I have a video tutorial <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VU4-Esyobc" target="_blank">here.</a> and a written tutorial <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/tutorial-4-w.asp" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p>For instructions on other types of thread button I can highly recommend <a href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ginabshop/index.php" target="_blank">Gina B Silkworks</a>. Her video tutorials are clear and easy to follow. </p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-47480250011502260942020-11-14T15:33:00.002+00:002020-11-14T15:33:31.399+00:00Christmas Decorations<p>These were great fun to knit. You can choose any of the charts for either side of the decoration. They are knitted in the round using stranded colourwork techniques. Skills involved are provisional cast on, working with 2 colours in the same line (stranded colourwork), magic loop or small circumference knitting in the round, three needle cast off. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYBRwfeuN3crLggWjnF7-QtRiH-f7whOe5sPQkkNqg5ODisToCCOZshDHlxFIDC1nBzktKXf11mjTN1uUipiAjZdeIQWa4udq94WDFhTOV1rHuetTGJyaXLXA9P180LDLaGURu1Db6Hgl/s2048/0E0ACEF9-78D3-4B35-9BFF-5490B5D90F70.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYBRwfeuN3crLggWjnF7-QtRiH-f7whOe5sPQkkNqg5ODisToCCOZshDHlxFIDC1nBzktKXf11mjTN1uUipiAjZdeIQWa4udq94WDFhTOV1rHuetTGJyaXLXA9P180LDLaGURu1Db6Hgl/s320/0E0ACEF9-78D3-4B35-9BFF-5490B5D90F70.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>It takes one <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/limited-edition-baby-skein-sets-254-c.asp" target="_blank">Beaker Button Christmas Baby skein set</a> to make two ornaments. I worked one chart on each side.</p><p>Tension: 13 sts x 18 rows over 5cm x 5cm knitted in the round, 40m mini skein in green, red and white will make both ornaments, spare needle for 3 needle cast off, yarn needle for sewing in ends, 10g of stuffing, waste yarn.</p><p>I used 3mm x 80cm circular needles for this project and the magic loop method of knitting small circumferences in the round. Yarn A was the colour red or green, yarn B was the white.</p><p>Cast on 62 stitches using a provisional cast on. Join to knit in the round being careful not to twist.</p><p>Work in stotcking stitch for the entire piece. Follow your chosen chart(s) from the bottom right corner. You will fit two charts per side. I worked a different chart on either side. Yarn A are the white squares and yarn B are the black squares. Complete the chart, then work one round in yarn B. </p><p>Divide the stitches so that one chart is on each side of the needles. Using the spare needle work a three needle cast off. Fasten off and leave a long tail. </p><p>Pick up the stitches along the bottom of the work from the provisional cast on. Work one round in yarn B. Stuff lightly. Repeat the three needle cast off for the bottom in the same way as the top. Weave in tails at the bottom and all but the longest tail at the top. Thread the longest tail at the top to the centre of the ornament. Stitch the tail back through the cast off stitches twice, leaving a loop each time for hanging. Weave the tail securely through the work and hang on your tree!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUOLrstKvtIyRYC11UcX0JbSZWyaAuPk2wT8E62U5gGdtVgHpUh-5M22Qw7KPdfRVMS0YVcMO3IziGAdiiriQwp4fgnJX9-IKPutuRdI3sdX5QrKgX7AuQ2hn_ebitWP63b6Rm4zK9cYl/s474/Christmas+tree+chart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="463" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUOLrstKvtIyRYC11UcX0JbSZWyaAuPk2wT8E62U5gGdtVgHpUh-5M22Qw7KPdfRVMS0YVcMO3IziGAdiiriQwp4fgnJX9-IKPutuRdI3sdX5QrKgX7AuQ2hn_ebitWP63b6Rm4zK9cYl/s320/Christmas+tree+chart.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbYPJl6XYZNSGsBmRCn2fXmfwzrf0PcS1jDaXLXEass6I55UpTLXqx2qHWdPpUBlS1L1asDMGR4fsx6iuepwzKY2qODJaM8WgQR2bkz3pcCp2w4PNEzJS_rA819adC1cyNPXXdqBjhLpA/s474/sheep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="463" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbYPJl6XYZNSGsBmRCn2fXmfwzrf0PcS1jDaXLXEass6I55UpTLXqx2qHWdPpUBlS1L1asDMGR4fsx6iuepwzKY2qODJaM8WgQR2bkz3pcCp2w4PNEzJS_rA819adC1cyNPXXdqBjhLpA/s320/sheep.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCvS0lK4uJWcziARIAg19wJ1KOYaag1V80qBYlYJafZwmYPx93CYziiX4Ozn2AtwZQgH5oAu9sYuNS-ORFC1CPhupkEcQ87av_ZVfAN6aiwN5zWwJoQAa16Uh-Dl5RafRiy6-P8J2cOZi/s474/snowflake+chart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="463" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCvS0lK4uJWcziARIAg19wJ1KOYaag1V80qBYlYJafZwmYPx93CYziiX4Ozn2AtwZQgH5oAu9sYuNS-ORFC1CPhupkEcQ87av_ZVfAN6aiwN5zWwJoQAa16Uh-Dl5RafRiy6-P8J2cOZi/s320/snowflake+chart.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVesp_-xDa1PSg0tArdaNYS_Tn2S72rDOqSd5dIMPxlzcoGUZkM3W4l1Atw5S83q4vAdDVp53nP1VuHEpoMLKBWk77tzHJsUmI_YbTC798JyiqCA86EDmNZEqoTxIxSPFXYxMRajwTUYO/s474/star.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="463" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVesp_-xDa1PSg0tArdaNYS_Tn2S72rDOqSd5dIMPxlzcoGUZkM3W4l1Atw5S83q4vAdDVp53nP1VuHEpoMLKBWk77tzHJsUmI_YbTC798JyiqCA86EDmNZEqoTxIxSPFXYxMRajwTUYO/s320/star.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-54317573404575277432020-11-07T20:58:00.004+00:002020-11-15T16:30:44.506+00:00Crinkle Head Band<p><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"> Another of the patterns from the Ideas Gallery of <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/dorset-button-inspirations--by-jen-best-12034-p.asp" target="_blank">Dorset Button Inspirations.</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;">Crinkle head band<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"> </span></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoKjQjipPXs-F_nIAqd5Y2jsghpCisBd2fg9viUPpnxUuP29mPl30UoAV7-PjUxrRm9p4UunXL4y_3jfirOusrtzsbYzYTN2iko6mUWhTJsbqjmHC77Em8oHqp7v58LvCj8a5lJqTK54r/s2229/IMG_3044.JPG" style="background-color: #666666; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="2229" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoKjQjipPXs-F_nIAqd5Y2jsghpCisBd2fg9viUPpnxUuP29mPl30UoAV7-PjUxrRm9p4UunXL4y_3jfirOusrtzsbYzYTN2iko6mUWhTJsbqjmHC77Em8oHqp7v58LvCj8a5lJqTK54r/w640-h258/IMG_3044.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;">4ply, 3.5mm hook, 3 x 18mm buttons<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tension</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Fdc for the circumference of your head (my head is
..... cm and I made 80 fdc)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1 ch, dc into bl only of each st</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Repeat last row 19 times in total (20 rows
including foundation row). Do not break yarn. Turn the work 90 degrees</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Button band is continued from the end of the
headband</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1 ch, 21 dc across the end of the headband.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1 ch, 21 dc into bl only</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Repeat last row</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1ch, 2 dc, [1 ch, miss next st, 3 dc into bl only]
x 4, 1 ch, miss next st, 2 dc into bl only</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1 ch, 2 dc into bl only, [1 dc into ch sp, 3 dc
into bl only] x 4, 1 dc into ch sp, 2 dc into bl only.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">1 ch, 21 dc into bl only</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Repeat last row</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Fasten off and weave in tails</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #d0e0e3;">Stitch
buttons opposite gaps between button band and headband.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-1095525758091972262020-11-07T20:46:00.004+00:002020-11-15T16:29:52.481+00:00I Cord Anklet<p><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This was one of the ideas in the Ideas Gallery of my new book <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/dorset-button-inspirations--by-jen-best-12034-p.asp" target="_blank">Dorset Button Inspirations</a>. It works up very quickly and would make fabulous Christmas presents. Just saying.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I-cord Anklet</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">4ply yarn, 2 x 3mm double pointed needles, 25mm
Dorset button, safety pin.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cast on 4 stitchess</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Slide the stitches to the opposite end of the needle and knit the row.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Repeat the last row until the I-cord wraps around your ankle twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Put 2 stitches onto a safety pin and work the other 2 stitches as a tiny
I-cord until it's 4cm long. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Graft the stitches together with the 2 stitches on the safety pin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stitch the Dorset button onto the opposite end of the I-cord<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Wrap the I-cord around your ankle (or around your neck if your prefer)
and do up with the loop over the button. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY_ywa_CNkphOMCZ0Ab4ARONIOo6u_ZqUGmtu3akNkEG6q5evMxJiapz63OhLuK-1wQN05p1PisIZAVgpcRj1LiUYlEpm47v0lfptysknBUFIs725nbjmnBn0fp6QwuVNY224-uRta2gh/s1305/IMG_2952.JPEG" style="background-color: #666666; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1305" data-original-width="1062" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY_ywa_CNkphOMCZ0Ab4ARONIOo6u_ZqUGmtu3akNkEG6q5evMxJiapz63OhLuK-1wQN05p1PisIZAVgpcRj1LiUYlEpm47v0lfptysknBUFIs725nbjmnBn0fp6QwuVNY224-uRta2gh/s320/IMG_2952.JPEG" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddeDFrMRnPCyd6OVoD1rs9PdBeb2v_9rgrUJ_d8e7ZgfB6upoW547WRYxDMsV60nBof0AdCwcWbfxdxMcce9Ir6bPhMf4VkJZXkyDGqCAhfpXsbEmzu2vwkVnMoj5UhoAfYzbP6DLwEM2/s1123/IMG_2955.JPEG" style="background-color: #666666; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="496" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddeDFrMRnPCyd6OVoD1rs9PdBeb2v_9rgrUJ_d8e7ZgfB6upoW547WRYxDMsV60nBof0AdCwcWbfxdxMcce9Ir6bPhMf4VkJZXkyDGqCAhfpXsbEmzu2vwkVnMoj5UhoAfYzbP6DLwEM2/s320/IMG_2955.JPEG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #999999;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-20313473913611538612020-09-01T15:28:00.001+01:002020-09-01T15:28:31.727+01:00<p> I've been writing my fifth Dorset button book, Dorset Button Inspirations, and I thought it might be useful to share my process for writing a new book. First I get a brainwave idea. The one for this book was 'I wonder how many things I can come up with to use Dorset buttons for. 101 uses for Dorset buttons!' By the morning I had 104 and the beginnings of a new book. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2048" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepL7RNCJbV6Xz516pgyS7Ktsy_1mZAv0uO3EnmEbpQeBDYrO4XAFx5PTl5dQR1_1sJwg3E3wfmnUKmSGogvxkwV1702rmU1Szi4iFB8R7AN_8l7zSqZKJ-gA5aHT4W1Fnld1tSCTTlo79/w640-h533/front+cover+med.png" title="Dorset Button Inspirations" width="640" /></div><br /><p>There is usually a gap of 2 years between books because that's how long a new book takes from conception to printing. The first stage is mainly played out in my head, with samples being made where I'm exploring a new technique or something I'm not sure of. I do most of my best thinking when I'm walking. It gives me time to play with ideas and new projects without having to make something over and over again. A project will normally spend at least a week being constantly made in my head, working over possible problems. I also write a lot of lists on my phone. Project ideas, to do lists, contents and materials. I may do a small amount of writing at this point, especially if I'm planning on making the project into a kit. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnnohJBaheEz_0tM3rO07fdYLc-tOQt4irOjutEOUSaYON6xLXQBtUhgsNUrdtIAjlQHouqfkFrBkotSmSro8bnDurhq7acvIn4HOOH7VwoEEHJv39f0lAnkHcmbdOn9E3FEwh2Ic0gt3/s16000/IMG_7092+%25282%2529.JPG" title="Cherry Blossom Tree was the first kit for the new book" /></div><br /><p>During this stage I start mentioning to people that I'm writing a new book, and talk in broad terms about what the book's theme is going to be. At that point I'm usually asked when is it coming out, so I give a rough deadline, which gives me the impetus to start writing. </p><p>The writing stage starts by making the project, and photographing each stitch and movement I make. This forms the basis of the pattern. I then crop and alter the photos so they're clear to look at. I also reduce the file size at this point, so the final PDF file isn't too huge. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPln0SIxp2g4nLpf6QUSpDTsUpyK162AJAU2WLcMpBDcxEYjXUFPqYdSNETc7x8hZ0HX1YbK38RP9oOqkDERYYXt7DfWtaSRyjx2iZUbup3kUy0CvA07PV4ToJhL0FPluer9sWmjQeztF/s528/IMG_7024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="472" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPln0SIxp2g4nLpf6QUSpDTsUpyK162AJAU2WLcMpBDcxEYjXUFPqYdSNETc7x8hZ0HX1YbK38RP9oOqkDERYYXt7DfWtaSRyjx2iZUbup3kUy0CvA07PV4ToJhL0FPluer9sWmjQeztF/w179-h200/IMG_7024.JPG" width="179" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbTvvX7yUZCYYEb6DPouTG50tqSVvofCjQsqa6qxlJuV1EL2VJACeuhLnvalEf2neTxZ5jjWfwkdP7Qr3xnM7TYQwjPnGhCI6Abc7Kpr1LnUQ4NIugDI6UiGhOMv0wUBuRSLuIhEM2lME/s503/IMG_7044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="496" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbTvvX7yUZCYYEb6DPouTG50tqSVvofCjQsqa6qxlJuV1EL2VJACeuhLnvalEf2neTxZ5jjWfwkdP7Qr3xnM7TYQwjPnGhCI6Abc7Kpr1LnUQ4NIugDI6UiGhOMv0wUBuRSLuIhEM2lME/w197-h200/IMG_7044.JPG" width="197" /></a> <img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="502" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtPDBGlprjRovK0t1Dpswj4p_5IuEH3pQGqF2yFCB4OqGq8unqXAT4r_mSKMXS1qZ-FC7zQEurKAbg4ulPFugqnbdSs4D3IJROXeVObWl4l4VsmX4l8Ni2A4aawE6AoQzgjjEvaxvvdYuV/w200-h198/IMG_7077.JPG" style="text-align: left;" width="200" /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Once the photos are ready, I load them onto a template file for the book, so the formatting is the same throughout. I write each section for the project, and then write the photo captions under each photo. This means each section has a corrosponding set of photos telling you exactly what's happening in each section.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="703" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSA8JqCKKoLiJbJ9KsOm5O6Io4fNmm46hQ5npIvYpycSNysZoHjRY5AzKxjgDNxaD31d7h0ML6FgTZVQJsigXVCAPRbqDWvKo82oGAYGvo7QngD2C4b94X8sFPX8462GDhh8iyMllWQyYl/w640-h226/for+the+blog.png" title="Holly Brooch instructions for Dorset Button Inspirations" width="640" /></div><br /><div>Once I'm reasonably happy with the write up I leave it overnight or longer. Then I come back and read through it again, editing anything I'm unhappy with. Then I send it to Sarah so she can proof read and flag up anything she thinks needs clarifying. Once I get it back I do the edits and add it to the master file, which will eventually become the book. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1776" data-original-width="2048" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KYBrJu6kuGq_4LIALVngMCBrDv9sI4mtQsM7pNCueAD7i-NRaO7BbEgfFA2YGWwLc6PXDR5NgwZGiSDioH77tLcYPd3gkLvxJfsUqOdty5v0bCcK0IglzVOn0YVQhVfvkCc25ZR2NBAJ/w320-h278/IMG_2728.JPEG" width="320" /> <img border="0" data-original-height="1968" data-original-width="2003" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxb7llWaErcTqeLiudblk3QIYWJBf5yOfeP3gm6IlZTlYhqji8GYI5r1_Ve-rz4w3TFoaCUKqMOKuMw0tuforXnm1K6hapiMBCwhU7us74Ju7nYEWOPA4rN4udEaBoWoIK_6Mn_RQBxjk/w200-h197/IMG_2730.JPEG" width="200" /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Once the book is three quarters done I launch a Kickstrarter to raise funds for a print run. This is also a great way of seeing if people want a new book. If I reach my target early I know it's going to go down well. </div><div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beakerbutton/dorset-button-inspirations" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoBMjZu9nYjPwuNvQ5VDIZESYttNYN0AAf3yMmIWwCa9f191n0KB1maAYG5MRVg49TSeuZ6GcYxaLik_t8bSdB3GgLx25V_JmW-DzvSEGfpswflOopsyD2h6jBceEgNFkktyGMNWPSY7xG/w400-h400/DAA7C5E4-C9E4-47F1-A62F-D08E8351E567.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Once we have our funding, and the book is finished, proof read and edited, a PDF file gets sent to Dollins Printers in Whitchurch. About a week later I go and pick up my boxes full of my new book. At the smae time I send out the surveys for the Kickstarter, so I know what to dye for the materials rewards.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEogVbNPtn_a-1NZIQv9rGGTSB9OxgdjZyjK5nHIcZ-A3yyl9MAXzVw7SLieOKCf8_90tN_0dRgvg0kuyd3wsZ9gsOjBZkadp9QxJFdzug_iFZ0MSf9fRktpMqx_W3qKr5kTNRSAF3Z4a/w640-h480/IMG_2896.jpeg" title="Yarn drying in the sun" width="640" /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Then it's just a case of dyeing the yarn, ordering any extra materials, making up materials pack, packing books and sending them off to their new owners. Somethime between the finishing stage and the printing stage a new book idead will magically pop into my head and I start making lists and playing with ideas in my head for the next book.</div><div><br /></div><div>My head is a very busy place! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-177606533147583082020-06-09T12:21:00.000+01:002020-06-09T12:21:17.075+01:00Lyra Hat, for people with a BAHA hearing aid.<font face="arial" size="2" style="line-height: 1.5;">As some of you may know, I have a <a href="https://hearmore.cochlear.com/baha" target="_blank">BAHA</a> (bone anchored hearing aid). This is a fabulous piece of kit. I have a metal screw in the mastoid bone in my head (which incidently has to be tightened each year so I do occasionally have a screw loose),and my heading aid clips onto this screw. I hear through the bone rather than through my broken ear. This does, however, make it a little difficult wearing hats, as the hearing aid sits proud of my head and anything placed on top of it makes it whistle like a tea kettle on the boil! Lyra Hat is my solution so I'm sharing it here for other people like me. It would also be useful if you wear a ponytail.</font><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br /></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial">Lyra Hat <o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">www.beakerbutton.co.uk</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial">©Jen Best 2019</font></span></div><div><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghLa5F1Voqz8sPSqIyNMT4b2ria03Yzk_Fe2RRJbVAboUa9bQ30GrjJ9ERhGPu5DzFZQ_fNKO27CZ-XPdq_Y9d_YYT_RFQtKItz5cBUmjp_rnc1IEQDAtZrZ7UlglKJCjfxgMr8E2lkSY/s907/lyra+hat+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="703" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghLa5F1Voqz8sPSqIyNMT4b2ria03Yzk_Fe2RRJbVAboUa9bQ30GrjJ9ERhGPu5DzFZQ_fNKO27CZ-XPdq_Y9d_YYT_RFQtKItz5cBUmjp_rnc1IEQDAtZrZ7UlglKJCjfxgMr8E2lkSY/s320/lyra+hat+%25281%2529.JPG" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRZiGqiv5QJ9dwGongnYuLzRPltfR5vWPx-6sabbZe75nztbYlQpqkROfvuPA2hHw7Ry1PI9QdYgQR9DrOR0OryY3W3UTG-jPcPgrWe6aLTGuZMJv3dKxYUnacSiyJxTR5fEjzVI5FiJY/s798/lyra+hat+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="773" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRZiGqiv5QJ9dwGongnYuLzRPltfR5vWPx-6sabbZe75nztbYlQpqkROfvuPA2hHw7Ry1PI9QdYgQR9DrOR0OryY3W3UTG-jPcPgrWe6aLTGuZMJv3dKxYUnacSiyJxTR5fEjzVI5FiJY/s320/lyra+hat+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a></div></div><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Skills required. This hat is worked in the round from the top down. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Working in the round. M1r increases, knit front and back increases. Ability to recognise and work knit and purl stitches as they appear in the work without the need for a written pattern. Casting on and off within the work.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Tension: 14st x 15 rows in pattern over 10cm x 10cm
worked in the round. I used 6.5mm double pointed needles for the top and </font></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">6.5mm x 40cm circular needle for the main body of the hat. You will need to work a swatch to find the needle size that gives you the correct tension if you want your size to be correct. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">You will also need 1 x 100g (100m) skein of chunkey weight yarn (the sample is knitted in Malabrigo Chunky), stitch marker for keeping track
of rounds, yarn needle for sewing in ends, tape measure to determine size and placement of hole..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Small hat has a 45cm circumference unstretched. </font></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Large hat has a 51cm circumference unstretched.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Hole is determined by measuring from crown to top of hole. </font></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Length of hat is determined by measuring from crown to bottom
of ear plus any turn over you want.</span></p><font face="arial" size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Abbreviations: </font></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>K</b> – knit. <b>P</b> - purl, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>Kfb</b> - knit into the front and
back, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><b>m1r</b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"> - make one stitch right. With the left needle pick up
the bar between the stitches from behind. Knit into the front of the stitch, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>sts</b> - stitches</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2"><b>Cast on 6 stitches</b>. Spread over 3 needles. Join to work in
the round, being careful not to twist. Place stitch marker at the start of the
round.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Knit round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[m1r, K2] for round (9 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Knit round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[m1r, K1] for round (18 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Knit round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb] for round (27sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P1] for round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb, P1] for round (36 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P2] for round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb, P2] for round (45 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P3] for round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb, P3] for round (54 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P4] for round. At this point I changed to circular needles
to make it easier to knit. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb, P4] for round (63 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P5] for round<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">For small size continue this round until you reach the top of
hole <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K1, kfb, P5] for round (72 sts)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">[K2, P6] for round <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">For large size continue this round until you reach the top of
hole </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2"><b>Top of hole (mine was 15cm). <o:p></o:p></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2"><b>You will need to measure from the top of your crown to the
top of where you want your hole</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">K2, cast off 4 stitches, continue in pattern for rest of the
round.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Work the next two rows back and forward. </font></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Turn and work the wrong side of the row for the next
‘round’ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Knit all the knit stitches, purl all the purl stitches. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Turn and work the right side of the row for the next ‘round’<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Knit all the knit stitches and purl all the purl stitches.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">K2, cast on 4 sts, continue in pattern for rest of the round. </span><font face="arial" size="2">Continue in the round for the remainder of the hat.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font face="arial" size="2">Continue in pattern until hat reaches below your ears plus
whatever turn over you want (mine was 31cm in total)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font size="2"><font face="arial">Cast off loosely in knit. Weave in ends and block
lightly. </font><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></span></p><br /></div></div>Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-14764478807752269052020-04-29T14:01:00.001+01:002020-04-29T14:01:30.613+01:00Dish Cloth and Face Cloth patterns<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Patterns are for personal use only. We are happy for you to sell things you make from them but please credit Beaker Button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I like making cloths. They're quick, easy and have a practical purpose. They're also a great way of testing new stitches as it doesn't matter if they go wrong. They can still be used as a dish cloth or a face cloth. I've added a few patterns for you to play with below. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dish and Face Cloths and Wipes</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ammonite Crochet Face Wipe<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ammonite Face Wipe</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tension: each face wipe is 6cm across at widest point, 3.5mm hook
(or nearest size to get the correct tension), 10m <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/creativa-fino-cotton-4ply-8236-p.asp" target="_blank">Anchor Creativa Fino Cotton 4ply</a>, yarn
needle for sewing ends. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The pattern is worked in a spiral. Please check your
tension. If it’s not the same as the tension in the pattern your sizing may be different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crochet Abbreviations. UK terms used throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ch - chain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">st(s) - stitch(es)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dc - double crochet <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ss - slip stitch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">htr – half treble<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tr – treble<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dhtr – double half treble ( yrh twice, insert into stitch and
pull up a loop, yrh and pull through 2 loops, yrh and pull through 3 loops)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yrh – yarn round hook<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[ ] repeat as directed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magic loop to start<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1ch, 6dc into ring<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on a spiral, follow the remainder of the instructions
as if they were on one line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2dc into each of the next 6 sts, [1dc, 2dc into next st] x 6,
[1htr, 2htr into next sts] x 6, [1tr into next 2 sts, 2tr into next st] x 6,
2dhtr into next st. Fasten off and weave in ends</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round Crochet Face Wipe</span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round Crochet Wipe</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tension: each face wipe is 4cm in diameter, 3.5mm hook (or
nearest size to get the correct tension), 8m <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/creativa-fino-cotton-4ply-8236-p.asp" target="_blank">Anchor Creativa Fino Cotton 4ply</a>, removable stitch marker, yarn needle
for sewing ends. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The pattern is worked in a spiral using a removable stitch
marker for keeping track of the rounds, so there are no turning chains and the
finish is neater. Please check your tension. If it’s not the same as the
tension in the pattern your sizing may be different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chain 4 and ss into the 1st chain to form a loop, or make a
magic loop if you prefer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round 1: 1 ch, 6 dc into the ring (6 sts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round 2: 2 dc into each stitch (12sts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round 3: [1htr into next st, 2 htr into next st] x 6 (18 sts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round 4: [1htr into next 2 sts, 2 htr into next st] x 6, ss
into 1st htr of round (24 sts)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fasten off, break yarn and weave in tails.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want a bigger face wipe continue to add stitches in
the following way until you’re happy with the size<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[1htr into next 3 sts, 2 htr into next st] x 6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[1htr into next 4 sts, 2 htr into next st] x 6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[1htr into next 5 sts, 2 htr into next st] x 6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[1htr into next 6 sts, 2 htr into next st] x 6 Etc. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Garter
Stitch and Heart Dish cloths</b></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF939F4w9UpWJpM7833C38u34vSQm0F3aik2w1o4k8GYL5xyfvbhKWWaHAs-myUVl-NeBKoYQ-IJtfnEQR2_7M8to6W0Dd8zhQ7nUaWdJLBCMAjTMyiQoohY-Zhmf-bRFHNwD_gjam4ysz/s1600/garter+stitch+dish+cloth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1355" data-original-width="1600" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF939F4w9UpWJpM7833C38u34vSQm0F3aik2w1o4k8GYL5xyfvbhKWWaHAs-myUVl-NeBKoYQ-IJtfnEQR2_7M8to6W0Dd8zhQ7nUaWdJLBCMAjTMyiQoohY-Zhmf-bRFHNwD_gjam4ysz/s320/garter+stitch+dish+cloth.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garter Stitch Dish Cloth</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOtWOhueojTOd6KPBrP0POB4gRG1ShMMWWEG0KXGTba6oJw1g5VvtRvOV72aLQvy5lVMreQvQq0hGW9YSpW-HZtkPbDJgjwPeqk1FO3-HrhV7SEd5hwsVZuVT_maFif-Nfeo9SwBKEhZe/s1600/heart+dish+cloth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1357" data-original-width="1600" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOtWOhueojTOd6KPBrP0POB4gRG1ShMMWWEG0KXGTba6oJw1g5VvtRvOV72aLQvy5lVMreQvQq0hGW9YSpW-HZtkPbDJgjwPeqk1FO3-HrhV7SEd5hwsVZuVT_maFif-Nfeo9SwBKEhZe/s320/heart+dish+cloth.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hearts Dish Cloth</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tension: 18 st x 36 rows over 10cm
x 10cm square in garter stitch, 4mm needles (or nearest size to get the correct
tension), 80m <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/craft-cotton-8134-p.asp" target="_blank">DK craft cotton</a>, 2 stitch markers for Heart Dish Cloth, yarn
needle for sewing ends. Both patterns are worked flat. Each dishcloth
measures approximately 22cm by 16cm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knitting Abbreviations. UK terms used throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">K - knit</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">P - purl</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">pm - place marker</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">RS - right side of the work</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">sm - slip marker</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">WS - wrong side of the work</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[ ] repeat as directed</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garter Stitch Dish
Cloth<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on 40 sts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 54 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off in knit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weave in tails<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hearts Dish Cloth</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (Slip the
markers each row)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on 40 sts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 5 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 6: K5, pm, P3, K1, P3,
pm, K28 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 7: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 8: K5, sm, K1, P5, K1,
sm, K28( to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 9: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 10: K5, sm, K2, P3, K2,
sm, K28 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 11: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 12: K5, sm, K3, P1, K3,
sm, K28 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 3 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 16: K13, pm, P3, K1, P3,
pm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 17: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 18: K13, sm, K1, P5,
K1, sm, K20( to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 19: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 20: K13, sm, K2, P3,
K2, sm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 21: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 22: K13, sm, K3, P1,
K3, sm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 7 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 30: K22, pm, P3, K1, P3,
pm, K11 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 31: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 32: K22, sm, K1, P5,
K1, sm, K11( to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 33: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 34: K22, sm, K2, P3,
K2, sm, K11 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 35: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 36: K22, sm, K3, P1,
K3, sm, K11 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 3 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 40: K13, pm, P3, K1, P3,
pm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 41: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 42: K13, sm, K1, P5,
K1, sm, K20( to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 43: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 44: K13, sm, K2, P3,
K2, sm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS row 45: knit slipping markers as
you go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS row 46: K13, sm, K3, P1,
K3, sm, K20 (to end)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work 5 rows in knit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off and weave in tails</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plain Face Cloth and Oak Tree Face cloth<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylS9wtoROCLwbF5fLncrNus50-cABCiip_g3v9cyTdKLWq5SOgGoUiW2endq_mXK31Ru3tb1Mr5JBhgwMcvlV5gOycRlABLFYRjiD4wem3p6-_YlT8JZ-Cuvoya63YpJ4Nv4cECjhkuYU/s1600/face+cloth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1376" data-original-width="1600" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylS9wtoROCLwbF5fLncrNus50-cABCiip_g3v9cyTdKLWq5SOgGoUiW2endq_mXK31Ru3tb1Mr5JBhgwMcvlV5gOycRlABLFYRjiD4wem3p6-_YlT8JZ-Cuvoya63YpJ4Nv4cECjhkuYU/s320/face+cloth.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plain Face Cloth</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSu-utHuDVasc4Fe7jMtHWvOXBMTYRCHJf-m-z0Y1Jc1MU2leRS4nCsLfw3iTS9ARMFzxriRTO1ZWk_GHak0fDQD94CXgfjoeeJpRy6FgsHQ4Mrf3uCOM3Mu8TfEKOh6pPc3gCAzGyLkB/s1600/oak+tree+face+cloth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1600" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSu-utHuDVasc4Fe7jMtHWvOXBMTYRCHJf-m-z0Y1Jc1MU2leRS4nCsLfw3iTS9ARMFzxriRTO1ZWk_GHak0fDQD94CXgfjoeeJpRy6FgsHQ4Mrf3uCOM3Mu8TfEKOh6pPc3gCAzGyLkB/s320/oak+tree+face+cloth.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oak Tree Face Cloth</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tension: 22st x 28rows over 10cm x 10cm square in stocking
stitch, 3.5mm needles (or nearest size to get the correct tension), 25m <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/creativa-fino-cotton-4ply-8236-p.asp" target="_blank">Anchor Creativa Fino Cotton 4pl</a>, yarn needle for sewing up. These patterns are worked flat. Please
check your tension. If it’s not the same as the tension in the pattern your
sizing may be different. The face cloth measures 22cm square unblocked. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plain Face Cloth <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on 50<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moss stitch border<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[K1, P1] to end<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[P1, K1] to end <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat last two rows twice more (6 rows in total)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right Side: [K1, P1] x 2, knit to last 5 sts, [P1, K1] x 2,
P1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrong Side: [P1, K1] x 2, purl to last 5 sts, [K1, P1] x 2,
K1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat last two rows, until you’ve worked row 50.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat moss stitch border rows 6 times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off and weave in tails.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oak Tree Face Cloth<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on 50<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moss stitch border<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[K1, P1] to end<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[P1, K1] to end <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat last two rows twice more (6 rows in total)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right Side: [K1, P1] x 2, work row 1 of chart or chart
written instructions, [P1, K1] x 2, P1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrong Side: [P1, K1] x 2, work row 2 of chart or chart
written instructions, [K1, P1] x 2, K1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat last two rows, following the chart instructions line
by line, until you’ve worked row 50.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat moss stitch border rows 6 times. Cast off and weave in
tails<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5GRwD-MkR_XUsTtdG9J6mrU-BBuJFL1efSd9Cj6pbyPvq7ftwfeczEtt3TAHTfXCuKCJ6jWGiYAHhEgtVOy3-peeTi8D0dwp-kAbbZGC9APaszvnJMvdoAIfd55bQJf5MayTt2rnzShy/s1600/oak+tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="1498" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5GRwD-MkR_XUsTtdG9J6mrU-BBuJFL1efSd9Cj6pbyPvq7ftwfeczEtt3TAHTfXCuKCJ6jWGiYAHhEgtVOy3-peeTi8D0dwp-kAbbZGC9APaszvnJMvdoAIfd55bQJf5MayTt2rnzShy/s640/oak+tree.jpg" width="633" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">Oak Tree Dish Cloth Chart </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 135.75pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oak Tree Chart written Instructions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k14,
p12, k14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p15, k10,
p15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k16, p8,
k16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 4<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p17, k6,
p17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 5<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
k17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p17, k6,
p17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
k17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p17, k6,
p17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 9<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
k17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p17, k6,
p17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
k17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 12<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p17, k6,
p17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 13<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
k17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p16, k8,
p16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k16, p8,
k16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 16<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p9, k3,
p1, k14, p1, k3, p9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 17<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k7, p3,
k1, p4, k3, p6, k1, p4, k1, p3, k7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 18<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p6,
k2, p3, k1, p6, k3, p7, k1, p3, k2, p6<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 19<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k6, p1,
k4, p1, k8, p2, k6, p1, k4, p1, k6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 20<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p6,
k2, p2, k4, p5, k1, p8, k2, p2, k2, p6<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k5,
p6, k6, p3, k5, p2, k1, p7, k5<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p5,
k1, p4, k1, p4, k1, p2, k2, p3, k2, p4, k1, p4, k1, p5<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 23<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k5,
p1, k3, p1, k5, p1, k5, p4, k5, p1, k3, p1, k5<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 24<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p5, k1,
p2, k2, p6, k2, p6, k2, p1, k2, p1, k2, p2, k1, p5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 25<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k2,
p9, k1, p5, k5, p2, k7, p7, k2<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 26<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p1, k2,
p3, k2, p6, k5, p3, k2, p6, k1, p1, k2, p3, k2, p1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 27<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k1, p1,
k5, p1, k1, p1, k7, p1, k1, p3, k3, p2, k1, p3, k1, p1, k5, p1, k1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 28<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p1, k2,
p3, k4, p1, k3, p7, k2, p7, k1, p1, k2, p3, k2, p1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 29<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k2, p1,
k2, p5, k7, p1, k8, p2, k5, p2, k2, p1, k2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 30<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p1, k5,
p7, k1, p8, k1, p5, k2, p4, k5, p1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 31<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k1, p1,
k3, p1, k5, p3, k3, p1, k8, p1, k7, p1, k3, p1, k1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 32<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p1, k2,
p2, k1, p6, k3, p4, k6, p1, k1, p7, k1, p2, k2, p1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 33<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k2,
p1, k2, p2, k6, p2, k5, p2, k1, p3, k2, p1, k4, p2, k2, p1, k2<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 34<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p2, k1,
p3, k1, p3, k1, p5, k3, p7, k2, p5, k1, p3, k1, p2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 35<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k2, p1,
k4, p4, k1, p1, k8, p2, k6, p4, k4, p1, k2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 36<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p2,
k3, p1, k2, p2, k1, p7, k1, p8, k1, p1, k1, p2, k2, p1, k3, p2<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 37<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k4, p3,
k3, p1, k1, p1, k5, p7, k4, p1, k3, p3, k4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 38<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p5, k1,
p4, k2, p2, k2, p5, k2, p1, k2, p2, k2, p4, k1, p5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 39<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k4,
p1, k7, p4, k1, p1, k6, p4, k7, p1, k4<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 40<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p4, k2,
p8, k3, p5, k4, p8, k2, p4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 41<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k5, p1,
k7, p2, k1, p8, k1, p1, k8, p1, k5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 42<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p6, k3,
p5, k1, p3, k3, p5, k1, p4, k3, p6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 43<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 16.0cm;" valign="top" width="605">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k7, p3,
k3, p1, k6, p2, k3, p1, k4, p3, k7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 83.4pt;" valign="top" width="111">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p7, k5,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p8, k4,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k13, p4,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p16, k1,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k17, p6,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half Trebles Dish cloth</span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Half treble dish cloth</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tension: 12st x 9.5rows over 10cm x 10cm square in half
trebles, 4.5mm hook (or nearest size to get the correct tension), 70m <a href="https://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/craft-cotton-8134-p.asp" target="_blank">DK craft cotton</a>, yarn needle for sewing ends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pattern is worked flat. Please check your tension.
If it’s not the same as the tension in the pattern your sizing may be different.
The dish cloth measures 20cm square unblocked.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ch - chain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">st(s) - stitch(es)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">htr – half treble<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk38205726"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yrn – yarn round hook<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A long loop half treble <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- pull up a loop to the height of the half
treble. Keeping your finger on the top of the loop to keep it stable, wrap the
yarn around the hook, insert the hook into the first stitch, yrh and draw
through the stitch, yrn and draw through all the loops. This gives a nicer
start to the round and a pretty edge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chain 27 (this includes 2 turning chain)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 1: 1htr into 3rd chain from hook, 1 htr into each ch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 2: 1 standing htr into 1st st, 1 htr into each stitch,
including the top of the two chain from row 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 3: 1 long loop htr into 1st st, 1 htr into each stitch,
including the top of the long loop htr from the previous row<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Repeat row 3 until work is 20cm (or square. If you fold it
across diagonally it will make a perfect triangle when square)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fasten off, break yarn and weave in tails.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-51159752370940179392020-04-13T11:52:00.001+01:002020-04-13T11:59:40.293+01:00Rainbow Neck Pillow<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rainbow neck pillow</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">www.beakerbutton.co.uk</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">©Jen Best 2017 </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Patterns are for personal use only. We are happy for you to sell things you make from them but please credit Beaker Button.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abbreviations<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Kfb</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> - knit into the front and back of
the stitch, one stitch increased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">P2tog - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">purl 2 together (insert the needle in
the next 2 stitches as if to purl, purl the two together)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">pm - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>place marker<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">sm - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slip marker<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">sts - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">stitches<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> [....] repeat section
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tension: 20 sts x 24 rows over 10cm x 10cm square in stocking
stitch using 4.5mm needles, 5 x 50m dk Beaker Button mini skeins (or similar dk
yarn), yarn needle for sewing up, 2 stitch markers, 125g of stuffing. This
pattern is knitted in the flat but is easier to work with circular
needles. Finished neck pillow measures about 30cm across from farthest
points and 23cm from top to bottom. It is 11cm across. This can change
depending on how firmly you stuff it.<br />
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Colours: red - A, yellow - B, green - C, blue - D, purple - E</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on 60 sts in A<br />
P20, pm, P20, pm, P20<br />
Knit to marker, sm, [kfb, K1] to next marker, sm, knit to end<br />
Purl, slipping markers as you go passed them<br />
Starting with knit work 4 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Change to B<br />
Knit to marker, sm, [kfb, K2] to next marker, sm, knit to end<br />
Starting with purl work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Change to C<br />
Knit to marker, sm, [kfb, K3] to next marker, sm, knit to end<br />
Starting with purl work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Change to D<br />
Knit to marker, sm, [kfb, K4] to next marker, sm, knit to end<br />
Starting with purl work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Change to E<br />
Knit to marker, sm, [kfb, K5] to next marker, sm, knit to end<br />
Starting with purl work 10 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Purl to marker, sm, [P2tog, P5] to next marker, sm, purl to end<br />
Change to D<br />
Starting with knit work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Purl to marker, sm, [P2tog, P4] to next marker, sm, purl to end<br />
Change to C<br />
Starting with knit work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Purl to marker, sm, [P2tog, P3] to next marker, sm, purl to end<br />
Change to B<br />
Starting with knit work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Purl to marker, sm, [P2tog, P2] to next marker, sm, purl to end<br />
Change to A<br />
Starting with knit work 5 rows in stocking stitch<br />
Purl to marker, sm, [P2tog, P1] to next marker, sm, purl to end<br />
Knit one row<br />
Cast off loosely.<br />
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Sew cast off and cast on edges together firmly. Sew one end firmly. Stuff with
stuffing and sew other end. Wrap around your neck and relax in comfort.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-90063568010367617732020-04-13T11:43:00.002+01:002020-11-07T21:08:20.138+00:00Solomon Shrew Crochet Pattern<br />
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This is another pattern I wrote for a yarn club a few years ago. It's a great way to use up some of those bits of Aran weight yarn you've got hanging around. If you want a smaller shrew you can change the yarn size and hook size accordingly. Enjoy, and feel free to share if you make him. If you don't have safety eyes you can use embroidery thread and stitch his eyes. If you're making him for a littley I would do that anyway. If you don't have stuffing try old tights, old pillow filling or similar. I used washed sheeps fleece.</span></div>
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This resource will be added to periodically so please check back and see what's new. Patterns are for personal use only, although we're happy for you to sell items made from them as long as you credit Beaker Button.</span></div>
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Tension: 9dc x 7 rows over 5cm x 5cm square using 4mm crochet hook. 50m Beaker Button Aran, 20g of toy stuffing, 2 black safety eyes 10mm, removable stitch markers for keeping track of rounds and placing ears, yarn needle for sewing up.<br />The pattern is worked using double crochet in a spiral. Place a removable stitch marker to keep track of rounds.</span></div>
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Abbreviations. UK terms used throughout.<br />dc - double crochet<br />2dctog - double crochet 2 stitches together (1 stitch decreased)<br />st(s) - stitch(es)<br />ch - chain<br />ss - slip stitch<br />tr - treble crochet</span></div>
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Head<br />Make a Magic Loop to start<br />6dc into loop<br />2dc into each st (12 sts)<br />[1dc, 2dc into 1st] x 6 (18 sts)<br />[2dc, 2dc into next st] x 6 (24 sts)<br />Work 4 rounds of dc (1 into each stitch)<br />Place eyes as shown in photo, between the 5th and 6th rounds (if you're sewing eyes skip this. Add the face once he's all sewn up).<br />Stuff firmly.<br />2dctog for whole round (12 sts)<br />Add more stuffing when needed.<br />2dctog for whole round (6 sts)<br />Break yarn and thread through remaining sts. Draw tight. Weave in ends.</span></div>
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Body<br />Make a Magic Loop to start<br />6dc into loop<br />2dc into each st (12 sts)<br />[1dc, 2dc into 1st] x 6 (18 sts)<br />[2dc, 2dc into next st] x 6 (24 sts)<br />[3dc, 2dc into next st] x 6 (30 sts)<br />Work 4 rounds in dc<br />11dc, [2dctog] x 4, 11dc (26 st)<br />Work 4 rounds in dc<br />Stuff firmly.<br />2dctog for whole round, (13 sts)<br />Add more stuffing when needed.<br />1dc, 2dctog for rest of round (7 sts)<br />Break yarn and thread through remaining sts. Draw tight. Leave a long tail for sewing up later</span></div>
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Ears<br />Join yarn to the top of the head 2 lines back and 1 st to the outside of the eyes, as shown in the photo. If you're adding sewn eyes later you will need to judge this for yourself. You can use stitch markers in place of ears first to see if they are in the right place.<br />Ch6, ss into 1st ch to form a loop.<br />5tr into loop, 2ch, 1dc into side of 5th tr, 5tr into loop.<br />Break yarn and use the tail to stitch the sides of the trebles to the head, angling them in slightly.<br />Repeat for the second ear. Weave in ends</span></div>
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Arms x 2<br />Make a Magic Loop to start<br />6dc into loop<br />Repeat last round until work measures 5 cm.<br />Break yarn and thread through remaining sts. Draw tight. Leave a long tail for sewing on to body.</span></div>
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Legs x 2<br />Magic loop<br />8dc into loop<br />Repeat last round until work measures 6 cm.<br />Break yarn and thread through remaining sts. Draw tight. Leave a long tail for sewing on to body.</span></div>
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Sew head to body. Sew arms and legs in place.</span></div>
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Tail<br />Join yarn to bottom of the shrew.<br />14ch.<br />Break yarn leaving a tail long enough to weave up the chain and into the shrew</span></div>
Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-33267077006401350332018-01-24T13:18:00.002+00:002018-01-24T22:12:01.380+00:00Hollow Brass Rings and their Replacement - What to make your Dorset Buttons on now!It's been a tumultuous few months here at Beaker Button. In August we were told that the hollow brass rings we'd been teaching on, and using in our kits, were possibly being discontinued. After an initial mad panic I did a lot of researching online, phoning companies and generally making a nuisance of myself to try an find a replacement. I had long conversations on the phone with the company I bought my brass rings from and explained that without them Dorset button making was in peril. In November we were told that they were, despite our best efforts, foot stamping, pleading, praying to the Gods of brass etc., going to be discontinued.<br />
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In my long searching I came across a Chinese wholesaler of rings, and they were willing to make to order within reason and had lots of very nice fine rings in a zinc alloy and a copper alloy.<br />
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All the other people I'd spoken to couldn't reassure me that the rings they sold were washable, but I knew that the zinc alloy rings were as they're made from the same stuff that my small rings are from and they wash fine. After breathing a huge sigh of relief I ordered a largish shipment and crossed my fingers. When they arrived I was delighted with them, and have been teaching with them, putting them in my mixed pack Dorset button kits and selling them online with great success. I've even designed new jewellry kits with them.<br />
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They are not perfectly round, but for me that adds to the appeal. They are closer to the type of rings the original 18th and 19th button makers would have used. I've now added some fabulous flat, large rings to the collection and I'm busy redesigning or remaking kits with them.<br />
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The brooches in green below are made with the new flat rings, the mauve brooch under that was made with the old hollow brass rings. Over the next few weeks the old rings will gradually be replaced with the fine and flat new rings in our kits.</div>
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I thought I would have to settle with something new and that I'd miss the brass rings but I'm loving working with the new ones. I hope you like the new rings as much as me.Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-12974900629016137552016-08-25T15:43:00.000+01:002016-08-25T15:43:30.774+01:00Beaker Button Warrenfield Sock Yarn - Part 1Some of you will know that I've always wanted my own sheep, which I can produce a yarn from to sell in the shop. Unfortunately I'm mildly allergic to lanolin, which makes owning sheep tricky as you can imagine. However, I had to great fortune to get to know Elizabeth of Warrenfield Farm, which is just down the road from Beaker Button, in the Clatfords. Elizabeth has a delightful flock of Hampshire Down sheep and I've been using her fleece for years to teach spinning with. It's soft, springy and wonderful to work with. This year we've gone into partnership to produce Beaker Button Warrenfield Sock yarn. It's going to be a soft and springy sock yarn in 100g skeins spun at the Natural Fibre Co. in Launceston. Cornwall. I was lucky enough to be given a tour of the factory on Monday when we delivered the fleece so I thought I'd share some of the photos with you.<br />
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For those of you who are wondering part 2 is going to be all about dyeing the skeins when they're delivered at the end of October.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fleece weighed in at 30kg</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fleece is sorted then separated</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tumble dried</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">carded</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">comes out like clouds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">clouds turned into fine rovings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and spun into singles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">then plied into my sock yarn </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">then wound into skeins or balls (ours will be skeins)</td></tr>
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<br />Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-25434124032149358102016-02-28T16:38:00.000+00:002016-02-28T16:38:00.242+00:00Making Knitted Lace a Little Easier<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">I'm always surprised that more people haven't come across these techniques when knitting. I thought a tutorial on how I use them might be handy as I spend a lot of time telling people how to do them in the shop. This tutorial takes you through all the things I do to make lace knitting easier but feel free to use the techniques in any sort of knitting project. I'm using a pattern I've designed called Kelp Poncho, knitted in <a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/fyberspates-167-c.asp" target="_blank">Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace</a>, which will be available to download later in the year. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Tools I use:</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/stitch-markers-164-c.asp" target="_blank">Stitch markers</a>, I'm using 1 set of simple rings and 1 set of beaded rings</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;"><a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/hiya-hiya-needles-and-accessories-166-c.asp" target="_blank">Hiya Hiya interchangeable circular needles</a>, I use these as they have a handy hole to thread your life line through. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Cotton perle 5 weight as my life line</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kuklake.rowCounter" target="_blank">Knitting App</a> on my smart phone, downloaded from the App Store</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">If you don't have those tools</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Stitch markers, you can use loops of thread or small rubber bands. I don't recommend using safety pins as they can get caught in your stitches.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Your favourite good quality needles knitting needles and a yarn needle for threading your life line in.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Smooth yarn or strong thread</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;">Pencil and paper.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.3px;" /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The yellow thread is my life line which is holding the stitches in case I go wrong and have to rip my work back. The thread means that the stitches can't drop back further. It works like a spare needle holding the row in place.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I thread my cotton perle through the small hole in the metal part of the cord, leaving a shortish tail. Then I can knit as normal and the life line pulls along my row without much effort.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The life line lies along the line of your cord (or needles)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your new stitch markers will mark your place as normal and you will slip them from needle to needle when you reach them. The stitch markers hanging from your life line will come off when you move the life line from one section to the next. I move my life line ever pattern repeat or every 10 rows, depending on how complicated the work is and how often I'm likely to need to unpick my work. I simply hold one edge of my work and carefully pull the line out, ready to knit into the next row. At that point the stitch markers come loose.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The other thing I do to make life easier is to keep track of my work row by row and pattern repeat by pattern repeat. I use a knitting App on my smart phone. This was free to download from the App store and keeps multiple projects for me. It keeps track of the row I'm on and the pattern repeat so I know that as of this photo being taken I'm about to knit row 1 of the forth pattern repeat. <br /><br />I also count how many stitches I have between stitch markers as I'm working. Then I can see if I've gone wrong and on which section without having to reach the end of the row. At that point I can decide if I need to unpick the stitches in that section or if I have to rip my work back to my life line.<br /><br />There are lots of ways to fix your work, but that's another tutorial in the future.</span></td></tr>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;" />Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-4495382011903245252016-01-30T18:28:00.000+00:002016-01-30T18:28:10.643+00:00Dorset Button ChallengeI'm using my blog for self publication this time. I do lots of talks and demonstrations, not to mention workshop, making Dorset buttons. One of the things that normally comes up is how fast can you make them, and I tell people that a good button maker could turn out a gross a day (that's 144 buttons!) I've always wanted to see how many I can make in a working day so I'm holding a Dorset button challenge on 20th February in the shop. I will be making as many as I can in 12 hours. I'm going to aim for 144 but that is one button every 5 minutes and even I'm not quite that fast, If you want to come and support me then please do. I won't be teaching but you can come and eat cake and drink coffee and squish the woolly goodness on offer.<br />
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We're going to be raising money for Parkinsons UK, a charity close to my heart as I have a friend with Parkinsons.<br />
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If you can't make the shop but you want to support the cause I've set up a just giving page <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/beakerbutton" target="_blank">here</a> so you can sponsor me per button or a set amount.<br />
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I don't normally use my blog to winge about the bad things that happen to me. I prefer to stay positive and see the bright side, and I like to project that bright side to my few readers. After all, you've probably got problems of your own to cope with, without having to listen to mine. However, something horrible happened at the Christmas Farmers market last year which made me really think. I thought I would share these thoughts with you all in the spirit of self discovery. I hope you don't mind.<br />
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The Sunday before Christmas was a bad day for many reasons. We all have them I know, where if it can go wrong it will. Thankfully I don't get them very often but this particular Sunday more than made up for the lack. The crowning bad point was discovering that someone had stolen my needle felted rabbit from our stall at the farmers market. You might remember him if you follow our Facebook page. We made them as a group with Erica from Arts, Rush and Cane. He did a sterling job of advertising our felting classes, and the fabulous Arts, Rush and Cane felting kits that we sell, which is why I'd taken him with me. After realising he was gone, and searching fruitlessly for him, I tried to put his theft out of my mind and get on with my day.<br />
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But he kept coming back to haunt me. I told myself that I was being stupid. After all, he was a small amount of fluff, pleasingly shaped but not worth very much. I can easily make another one, a better one probably, in about four hours. Yet still I couldn't shake the horrible feeling of loss his theft had left me with. And then I worked out why.<br />
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He wasn't just a pleasingly shaped bit of fluff at all. He was a memory of several happy hours spent with friends, learning a new skill. He was a shared feeling of delight on realising that we could all shape fluff into animals almost by magic. He was a sense of pride and achievement in my ability to learn and grow, to gain knowledge and create something new. He was a feeling of accomplishment in a project well finished.<br />
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And he was just so damm cute, and I made that cuteness.<br />
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So I think it's okay to feel loss over my little bit of fluff, and although the next rabbit will come with me to help sell things, I'm not sure he'll be as good.<br />
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On the positive side I did learn that Short Round can be the most sensitive and caring child when faced with someone in distress. He search high and low for my rabbit, hugged me lots more than usual and tried his hardest to make me feel better. When we finally got home, after all the other disasters that happened, he sat in his room and drew me a rabbit to replacethe one I'd lost.<br />
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So I'm going to take pride in him instead.<br />
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If by chance the person who needed my rabbit so badly reads this, please treat him with respect. He's worth so much more than a little bit of fluff.Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-31258346791942168682015-11-23T10:02:00.000+00:002015-11-23T10:02:59.315+00:00Wreath TutorialWreath Tutorial<br />
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I've been promising this wreath tutorial for a very long time. Hope you all like it.<br />
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This sorting fever has started to spill over into my personal life. For example I haven't touched my garden in over 2 years. I keep telling myself I'll get out and do something with the great load of weeds, brambles and fruit but each year slipped by without me noticing and the weeds and brambles get bigger and the fruit, well some of that got eaten. This year I've got the brambles under control, I've taken most of the accumulated rubbish to the dump, I've trimmed and tidied the beds and I'm starting to clear the jungle around my tumble down green house. You can even see the lawn!<br />
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I'm slowly working my way through the house too. I've just bought a knitting machine for making sock blanks to dye into Beaker Button's new <a href="http://www.beakerbutton.co.uk/beaker-button-rainbow-gradient-yarns-139-c.asp" target="_blank">gradient yarn range</a> and I needed a space to put it. It's huge. Far to big to go in the shop, and we don't use the table in the living room so I thought it would work perfectly there. The only problem was the enormous pile of skeins waiting to be catalogued and added to my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/people/beakerbutton/stash" target="_blank">Ravelry stash</a>. So I spent this morning going through the whole lot and photographing it. I'd forgotten several skeins I had, including a gorgeous skein of <a href="http://www.fivemoonsyarns.co.uk/acatalog/Diana_4ply.html" target="_blank">Five Moons </a>bought at <a href="http://www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wonderwool </a>last year. I now have to add each little treasure to my stash, which I'll do over the next few weeks.<br />
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For those of you wondering why I bother think of the fun to be had squishing each skein as I photographed it, wondering what I'd like to make out of it, remembering where I bought it and that rush of pleasure I felt when it first became mine. The other thing about adding your stash to Ravelry is that you have a record of each skein or ball you have, so when you walk into a wool shop like mine you can check what you have and what squishy little wonders in the sale basket will go with it!<br />
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Well I've rambled on quite a bit this week. Thank you for reading and I hope it's inspired you to take a look at your stash, finish that gardening chore, sort out a cupboard or relax in the knowledge that you're way more organised than I am and you've already got it covered.<br />
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This weeks letter is J. As always detailed instructions are <a href="http://beakerbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/milestones-legomania-and-new-prize-kal.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br />Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-23104949303819377882015-05-11T14:29:00.000+01:002015-05-11T14:29:11.632+01:00Blog on hold for a couple of weeks and IThis is a quick post to say that I'm putting the blog on hold for a couple of weeks while I work on the new website. It's going to be all singing and dancing, the new site, so it'll be worth the effort. I've posted I below for those of you following the Alphabet blanket pattern and will continue with J very shortly. Thanks for your patience.<div>
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Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-2055658554966775032015-05-01T18:49:00.000+01:002015-05-01T18:49:07.865+01:00Wonderwool 2015 and HApologies for the delay in getting this post out. I've been a little under the weather, having wrecked my shoulder. Knitting has been a little difficult. I'm on the mend now though so no more stalling. This week I thought I'd share some my highlights of Wonderwool 2015. We had a fantastic show and met (and infected) lots of new button makers. I taught two button classes this year in the Wool school, which was great fun. We sold lots of kits, wool, mini skeins and patterns. I did managed to come home with a fabulous new pair of trousers from Elegant Chaos, so I didn't buy any wool. Below are some of the beautiful things at the show so I'll shut up and let the photos do the talking.<br />
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This week's letter is below. As always detailed instructions are <a href="http://beakerbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/milestones-legomania-and-new-prize-kal.html">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haze Miles with her beautiful button necklace. My pattern, her own woven ribbon</td></tr>
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<br />Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-9768913234120031842015-04-20T21:20:00.001+01:002015-04-20T21:20:19.752+01:00Green and GThe last few weeks have been a mad whirl of dyeing skeins of yarn for Wonderwool, which we're going to this weekend. I've been telling people for years that my favourite colour is purple, so I was a little surprised at how much green dye I was getting through. It seems I have a penchant for green, as well as purples. My favourite though, was the rainbow gradient I dyed for the new Bifrost Kit I've designed. A few photos below for your viewing pleasure. I'll be running some dyeing experience days in the summer. Get in touch if you fancy having a go at dyeing your own yarn.<br />
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This week's letter is below. See <a href="http://beakerbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/milestones-legomania-and-new-prize-kal.html">here</a> for more detailed instructions.<br />
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I'll be shattered next week after the show so next weeks offering may be a day or to late.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beaker Button Sparkle on the shop shelves</td></tr>
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Beaker Buttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311449913117775410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803712044373919190.post-22158057697857557302015-04-13T20:53:00.000+01:002015-04-13T20:53:10.575+01:00Felting Fairies and FSome of you will know that Beaker Button has hosted two fabulous Felted Fairies workshops with Erica from <a href="http://www.artsrushandcane.moonfruit.com/" target="_blank">Arts, Rush and Cane</a>. As this week is an F week I thought I'd share a little about the felting fairies experience. <br />
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First I want to make clear this is not a felting tutorial. It's merely me showing off our fairies.<br />
Erica is a brilliant teacher. She has a knack for making you feel like things are going well, even when she's telling you what you've done wrong. The fairies we've made are needle felted, and what's great about the class is that you learn several techniques which can be used for all sorts of felting projects. Erica makes fantastic kits for felting your own fairies as well. They're £14 and have everything you need including needles and foam. We have 3 in stock at the moment. Have a look below at the models for them.<br />
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Your chart for this week is at the bottom of the blog. Full instructions are <a href="http://here./">here.</a><br />
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We start with this<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">merino tops, dyed locks, threads, felting needles and foam</td></tr>
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and end up with these (both mine).<br />
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What amazes me is the variety of styles in each class.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flower Fairies in March</td></tr>
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