tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:54:44 +000014thCHooddragonhidemodserratamementomoriOriginal knitwear designs by Alianora Munrohttp://belfryknits.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com ('nora)Blogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-7171270675707520571Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:44:00 +00002014-01-05T08:53:19.279-05:00mementomori Chart now available as a free Ravelry download. Never mind. Apparently I managed to run afoul of a recent Ravelry rule change which prohibits chart only patterns. (Why no, it was not posted anywhere obvious). Sometime when I'm less irritated I might try to write up "complete" directions (still trying to find out if there are rules about what THOSE are)and post it again. http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2014/01/memento-mori-mittens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-6701092786184035967Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:20:00 +00002010-03-31T08:58:51.708-04:0014thCHoodThis isn't a new one, exactly, but it keeps coming up, so maybe it'd be good to put the answer out where people can find it.Yes, the fronts are asymmetrical.I designed them that way on purpose, so that when the hood is buttoned and the fronts overlap, the buttons are still centred.If for some reason you'd rather have the fronts symmetrical, place the markers as follows:Work 5 moss, place marker, http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-hood-question.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-3758878789094112825Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:07:00 +00002010-03-18T12:10:35.801-04:0014thCHoodmodsSomeone on Ravelry contacted me about doing a top-down version of the hood. She'd decided to do this because she was afraid she was a little short on yarn and better the mantle portion should be short than the hood, right?Anyway, she wanted my advice about arranging the markers to do increases down from the neck ribbing.Uh. Err. Augh.After much hairpulling and pencil-gnawing, I think, if you http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2010/03/hood-mod-top-down.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-5139509780172503902Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:48:00 +00002009-01-26T12:49:36.654-05:0014thCHoodmodsA question came in over Ravelry about modding the hood pattern so that the hood and mantle are one colour and the moss stitch borders another. What's a good way to do this? asked my gentle correspondent.I suggested knitting the hood without the front border, and then picking up and knitting the border separately. This is the same technique sometimes used in cardi patterns to add the button http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2009/01/modding-hood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-5351493748989386617Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:44:00 +00002008-07-16T09:52:48.249-04:00dragonhideerrataIt's been pointed out that there's a symbol in the chart which is not in the legend. The symbol, a simple vertical line, should be read as 'knit.' I was using new charting software and was still getting used to all the symbol options; I thought I'd cleaned up the chart but that symbol slipped right by me.I'll try to get a corrected chart into the pattern listing and the download, but in the http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2008/07/dragonhide-erratum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-4609681810025349049Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:09:00 +00002009-05-19T12:43:42.342-04:00dragonhideEquip: Increases frost resistanceThis hat uses a modified version of the Dragon Skin stitch pattern from Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Materials: 5 mm double-pointed needles (set of 5), approximately 170 yards of aran-weight yarn. Hat shown was knit with Mission Falls 1824 Wool in ‘Teal’ (30).Gauge: 4.5 st/inchCast on 96 stitches, 24 on each of 4 needles.Work in 2x2 rib http://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2008/06/dragonhide-helm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476406596533368932.post-5168056145325789114Thu, 01 May 2008 22:40:00 +00002009-05-19T12:42:43.610-04:0014thCHood I designed and knit this hood more as an exercise in creativity and pattern-drafting than as a highly authentic garment based on surviving evidence. I had lucked into the yarn, a very nice shaela Shetland wool, and wanted to do something special with it. People definitely were knitting in the fourteenth century, but evidence that they were knitting hoods is hard to come by. I am told that in herhttp://belfryknits.blogspot.com/2008/05/ladys-fourteenth-century-style-knitted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com ('nora)1