Florence

Last week we were lucky enough to go to forence for Pitti Filati, here are a few snaps of florence itself of the first night and day. We spent pretty much all of the first day in the high end stores developing expensive taste hence why the sight seeing pics are slightly lacking.. 

Roomies

Art work on the walls of a bar we found

Highlights include: Truffle sauce, 99cents wine, CELINE, AMAZING knitwear, Vouge italia, Salvatore Ferragamo, Vintage Treats, "Discoteque", getting into the drivers seat of a taxi and Luisa Via Roma.
(Pitti pics to be coming soon)

Getting Ahead...

I'm part of the Knottigham Trent Knit Society committee this year at uni. For this term we decided to ease the work load between us and organise a couple of the evenings each which would mainly involved sourcing a pattern/theme. I had an idea to get the society involved in some charity work specifically for pancreatic cancer. I wrote up a few snood patterns to get the society members knitting and sourced enough purple yarn (most from uni but the rest off eBay). I went with as chunky as I could get to keep the knitting fairly speedy. We started the snoods on the 24th of Jan. After talking to the people at Pancreatic Cancer UK we decided that to sell them ourselves would be a lot easier, under the name "getting aHEAD of pancreatic cancer", so watch this space...

Yarn and leaflets



The beginnings of snoods!



My snood so far. This is the basket weave pattern knitted on 8mm needles. I'm hoping to knit at least one of each pattern! 

And here are the patterns..
I'd recommend using 8mm needles but one size larger or smaller would be fine. It's quite nice that the society members have used different size needles as no snood will end up the same and some of them did their own pattern too!

Moss Stitch Snood (easy)

1. Cast on 41 stitches
2. Row one: K1, *P1, K1; Repeat from the * to end of row
3. Repeat this row until snood is desired length, 90cms is enough to go around the neck, you can do double the length if you would like to wrap it around again.
4. Mattress stitch the two ends together to create a circle 

Double Moss Stitch Snood (slightly harder)

1. Cast on 41 stitches
2. Row one: K1, *P1, K1; repeat from the * to end of row
3. Row two: P1, *K1, P1; repeat from the * to end of row
4. Row three: same as row two
5. Row four: same as row one
6. Repeat these four rows until snood is desired length (same measurements as moss stitch snood)
7. Mattress stitch the two ends together to create a circle

Basket Weave Snood (slightly harder)

1. Cast on 38 stitches
2. Row one: knit
3. Row two: purl
4. Row three: K2, *P4, K2; repeat from * to end of row
5. Row four: P2, *K4 P2; repeat from * to end of row
6. Row five: same as row three
7. Row six: same as row four
8. Row 7: Knit
9. Row 8: Purl

10. Row 9: P3, *K2, P4; repeat from * to the last 5 stitches, K2, P3.

11. Row 10: K3, *P2, K4; repeat from * to the last 5 stitches, P2, K3.

12. Row 11: same as row 9

13. Row 12: same as row 10

14. Repeat these 12 rows until snood is desired length (same measurements as before)

15. Mattress stitch the two ends together to create a circle

Garter Slip Stitch Snood (quite hard)

1. Cast on 41 stitches
2. Row one: knit
3. Row two: knit
4. Row three: K1, *SL 1 purlwise, K1; repeat from * to end of row.
5. Row four: K1 *YF SL 1 purlwise, YB, K1; repeat from * to end of row.
6. Row five: knit
7. Row six: knit
8. Row seven: K2, *SL 1 purlwise, K1; repeat from * to the last stitch of the row, K1.
9. Row eight: K2, *YF SL 1 purlwise, YB, K1; repeat from * to the last stitch of the row, K1
10. Repeat these eight rows until piece measures at least 90cm.
11. Mattress stitch ends together to create a circle.

Double Cross Cable Snood (hard)

1. You will need a cable needle for this in the same size as the needles you are using.
2. Cast on 38 stitches. The cable is worked over 24 stitches on a background of reverse stocking stitch. 7 stitches will be purled before the cable is started and will finish with 7 purl stitches (for the front) the same applies to the back but the 7 stitches each side will be knitted. The rows shown are for the 24 stitch cable only, so don’t forget to knit or purl before you start each row.
3. Abbreviations you may need to know:

C8B(F): means cable 8 back (or front) to do this slip the next four stitches onto a cable needle and hold at the back (or front) of the work, knit the next four stitches from the left hand needle, then knit the stitches from the cable needle.

C5L: Means cross 5 left, to do this slip the next four stitches onto a cable needle and hold at the front of the work. Purl the next stitch on the left hand needle, then knit the four stitches from the cable needle.

C5R: Means cross 5 right, to do this slip the next stitch onto a cable needle and hold at the back of work. Knit the next four stitches from the left hand needle, then purl the stitch from the cable needle.

4. Row one: (right side) K4, P4, K8, P4, K4
5. Row two: P4, K4, P8, K4, P4.
6. Row three: K4, P4, C8B, P4, K4.
7. Row four: Same as the row two.
8. Row five: C5L, P2, C5R, C5L, P2, C5R.
9. Row six: K1, P4, (K2, P4) 3 times, K1.
10. Row seven: P1, C5L, C5R, P2, C5L, C5R, P1.
11. Row eight: K2, P8, K4, P8, P2.
12. Row nine: P2, C8B, P4, C8B, P2.
13. Row ten: Same as row eight.
14. Row eleven: P2, K8, P4, K8, P2.
15. Row twelve: Same as row eight
16. Row thirteen: Same as row nine
17. Row fourteen: Same as row eight
18. Row fifteen: P1, C5R, C5L, P2, C5R, C5L, P1.
19. Row sixteen: same as row six
20. Row seventeen: C5R, P2, C5L, C5R, P2, C5L.
21. Row eighteen: same as row 2
22. Row nineteen: same as row 3
23. Row twenty: same as row 2
24. Row twenty-one: same as row 1
25. Row twenty-two: same as row 2
26. Repeat these twenty-two rows until piece measures 90cms, or longer if you would like.
27. Mattress stitch the two ends together to form a circle