Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 07:30:53 -0400
From: joel rosenshein <knitpurl@zelacom.com>
To: Knit@bolis.com
Subject: KNIT: Hooded scarf pattern

  Recently I asked for a pattern for a Hooded scarf. I received many requests
for the answers so I have compiled them as follows.. Thanks again to anyone
I may have missed in my answers..
   1. There is a very nice pattern in Interweave Press' Homespun, Handknit

   2. There is a pattern on the 1995 Gift List.. it is located at:
         www.freenet.msp.mn.us/people/campbell/knit/pat.html

   3.Basically it is a scarf knit in a reversable pattern. It is wide enough
     for half the hood. When the desired length is reached, you cast off, you  
     fold in half and sew from the the fold down far enoug to make the hood.
     (Thanks Sara)

  4. Knit a scarf of very fine yarn about 15 or 16 inches wide and fold in
     half lengthwise and carefully stitch the ends together, leaving about 15
     inches in middle open to make a hood..(Thanks Claire)

  5. Here is a scarf pattern from Win
     
   Hooded Scarf Pattern
  
Materials: 2 skeins (1 plus 6 feet) WoolEase white frost or preferred
color
(other worsted weight mohair OK)
               Long size 13 circular needles or size needed for gauge

Gauge: 2 stitches per inch in pattern (this time only -- close enough is
good
enough)

Directions: Pattern stitch (8 stitch repeat)
                Row 1 -- k4, k4 with a double throw (wrap yarn around
the
needle twice)
                Row 2 -- k across dropping second strand of the double
throw
                Row 3 -- k4 with double throw, k4
                Row 4 -- knit

Row 1 -- Cast on VERY LOOSELY 120 stitches
Row 2 -- k40, place marker, k40, place marker, k40
Row 3 -- begin pattern row 1 slipping markers as you come to them
Continue knitting in pattern until the scarf is the desired width,
probably 6 - 8 inches, ending after pattern row 2 or 4.

Bind off LOOSELY to first marker and remove it, knit in pattern to next
marker, knit from marker to end.

Bind off to marker and remove it. Continue knitting hood section until
its
about 12 inches deep and end with row 2 or 4 of the pattern.

Either slip 20 stitches onto each of 2 same size straight needles for
grafting (grafting off the circulars is possible if they are long enough
and flexible enough but trickier), or bind off LOOSELY for seaming.
Graft or seam the top of the hood.

VERY nice for someone who needs a bit of warmth but doesn't want the
hairstyle crushed.

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This pattern downloaded from Wool Works: the online knitting compendium
http://www.woolworks.org/