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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now The last stanza of Robert Frost’s Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening poem inspired this slouchy, warm hat. The featured cables and leaves panel reminds me of those snowy woods, dark and deep.* Notes: Instructions are written for a hat that is worked in the round. The hat is sized for a slightly slouchy fit. Charts are provided on the last page. Materials: Size US 6 (4.0 mm) or size to obtain gauge either DPNs or circular needles Size US 5 (3.75 mm) or one size smaller than used...

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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now or visit pattern website Errata available: pdxknitterati.com   The Snowy Woods Cowl is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” This piece is worked in the round, for ease in working the textured trees which always face you as you knit. The reverse stockinette edgings roll to the back of the cowl, leaving just the trees in all their mysterious beauty. This pattern was originally published in February 2014 for the Woolgirl Poet’s Club. It is now available to the public. I reworked this design...

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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now   This pattern is named for French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën (1878–1935). He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears, which inspired the logo for his brand, as well as the stitch pattern in this scarf. Also known as ‘herringbone gears’, the inlaid chevron pattern on these gears increases efficiency and decreases noise. Since a ‘muffler’ can be either a quieting mechanism in motors, or the British word for a scarf, in this pattern the pun serves double...

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