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It’s finally nice out again!! Finally got back on the trails!! 🥰🦖🦕🚵🏼

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Miss lady over here looking better than I do in my sun hat lmao

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When the pattern is in short-hand, but you’re a chart person. Ever since using a pattern with a color coded cable chart, I’ve love using charts to better understand cable patterns. I’m visual, so I find these symbols easier to memorize. Otherwise, I’m flipping through the pattern to read which cable is which.

I also find it helps me visualize the finished projects and plan more efficiently. For example, I noticed, while charting, that the pattern is 50 stitches wide, but my cast on of choice only works with a multiple of 4, so now I have to choose between adding or subtracting 2 columns (48vs52sts).

Just a little view into my planing process.

I DID NOT MAKE THE PATTERN.

ANYONE INTERESTED IN THIS PATTERN CAN FIND IT HERE:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/braveheart-neckwarmer

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A Treasure Trove of Newspaper Knitting Patterns: Trove of Australia

The National Library of Australia, in league of other collection across the country, has put on line vintage newspapers which can be searched by word and date. Of course, there is the everyday news to see, and all the kind of fashions that showed up in newspapers including this knitted hat which was then finished with Petersham or millinery ribbon.

You can see here an example from The Sun from 1931 which I chose because it is both simple and interesting. You still have that close-to-the-face look which made the cloche hat so popular in the 1920s, although this is a kind of squashed beret which uses a ribbon to control the shape a bit. In fact, it gave me an idea of what to try on a crochet beret I made that has turned out too sloppy. They note that you could use a ribbon to match your coat and suggest velvet ribbon as well. And trimming a coat with velvet collars and facings was a perennial style.

I give you here the close-up of the hat and then the article. Trove also offers you the option of scanned text, but since newspapers are printed on cheap paper, the automatic scanning programs cannot always read them accurately. A blot of ink, a bleed-through from the other side, etc., throws off the program and it turns the words effected into gibberish.

You can find the entire collection here and then limit your search as you like: https://trove.nla.gov.au/

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Scarf Cum Cap

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I love that they have cool stuff at airports. This is “Arch” by Glenn Kaino, and he’s a transformer made out of replicas of the bridges in Pittsburgh!! There’s also a whole T. rex replica. 🥰🦖🤖

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Say Hello to Cow-wabunga!! Lmao the headless cowman is headless no longer. Just need to get his clothes done now 🥰

(Pattern: Bull in a Sweater and Shorts by Little Cotton Rabbits)

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Headless Cowman lmao 🎃

(Pattern: Bull in a Sweater and Shorts by Little Cotton Rabbits)

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