Also available as part of an eBook, Whitework: Accessories inspired by medieval illumination
A thirteenth-century bestiary volume provided the inspiration for this elaborate-looking accessory set. Much is unknown about the manuscript, including its talented scribe, but it is of Franco-Flemish origin, was made circa 1270, and the author is Hugo of Fouilloy.
Patterns included
- Cowl
- Mittens
- Earband
Sizing
- Cowl:
- All sizes 9.5" high
- Small: 22" around
- Medium: 32" around
- Large: 60" around
- Mittens (to fit around the hand with about 5% negative ease):
- Small: 6.25" around hand
- Medium: 6.75" around hand
- Large: 7" around hand
- Earband:
- One size, 4.5" x 23.5"; multiple buttonholes and buttons make it adjustable to wearer
Skills required
- Knitting, purling
- Increasing, decreasing
- Stranded knitting flat and in the round
- Chart reading
- Working in the round with DPNs (alternatives: two circulars or the magic loop method)
Materials needed
- Yarn: Fingering weight, as follows (all yardages are approximates):
- Main colour:
- Cowl: 200 yards for small size, 275 yards for medium size, 530 yards for large size
- Mittens: 115 yards for small size, 130 yards for medium size, 150 yards for large size
- Earband: 90 yards
- Contrast colour:
- Cowl: 135 yards for small size, 190 yards for medium size, 365 yards for large size
- Mittens: 85 yards for small size, 95 yards for medium size, 115 yards for large size
- Earband: 60 yards
- Needles: 2.5mm, as follows:
- Cowl: 16" circular for small size, 29" circular for medium size, 47" circular for large size
- Mittens: Either a set of DPNs or (for two circulars) two 16" circulars, or (for magic loop) 32" or longer circular
- Earband: 29" or longer circular needle and 1 DPN
- (cowl, mittens) Stitch marker
- (mittens) 6" long spare length of yarn
- (earband) Safety pin
- (earband) 3 half-inch diameter buttons
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Gauge
- 39 sts and rows to 4" in stranded pattern after blocking
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