Finished: Medieval pouch again
Here’s my second medieval pouch. This took a while because I haven’t been working on it very often. I got the majority of it done while I was at the Legislative District caucuses a few weeks ago (for 14 hours… don’t get me started on that. I didn’t knit the whole time I was there or I might have actually finished it all that day!).
Technical specs:
Green and grey yarn: Cascade 220 Heathers
Blue yarn: Vintage 1970s Brunswick Germantown from Goodwill
Needles: US 6, 16″ circular
Cord and tassels: DMC perle cotton. Cords are twisted plied cord because I haven’t yet gotten around to learning fingerloop braiding.
Chart: Refined version of my own earlier chart, based on motifs from period knitting in Rutt’s History of Hand Knitting, and also inspired by charts created by Dame Christian de Holacombe, found here. I used Excel to draw out the chart.
I encourage anyone interested in a project like this to try it. It is very easy. It looks much harder to knit one of these than it really is.
Now, no more pouches for a while, I hope.
Since this is an old blog, this is also a dead link. If you still maintain this, I would love to have the pattern. Thank you.
Looks like they changed the URL. It is now at http://wkneedle.bayrose.org/filum/filum_32_kintting.pdf (yes, the URL is “kintting” instead of “knitting.”) 🙂
And I should add that my version is on Ravelry, at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/medieval-pouch-charts .