Red Scarf eBook 2023

Due to popular demand, we are once again offering a limited-edition eBook of the entire 2023 Red Scarf Collection, including 9 accessory patterns by 7 incredibly talented designers. This joyful selection of accessories for heads, hands, toes, and shoulders will carry you through gift knitting season and into the new year, with covetable projects for beginners and experienced knitters alike. 

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Special thanks to this year's generous designers: Bonnie Sennott (Blue Peninsula), Caitlin Shepherd (Plucky Pigeon Knits), Mary O'Shea (Tullymongan Designs), Jessica McDonald, Kelly Martinelly (Hard Knot Life Crochet), Darby Photos (Isle of Yarn) and Anne Hanson (Knitspot)

DESIGNS INCLUDED: 

1. Mary O’Shea – Frostwork Mittens (knit)

Suggested Yarns: (1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering , Stone Soup Fingering

Finished size:  Adult Average, (Adult Large) 7 (8) inch circumference Length: 8.5, (9.25) inches, from cuff to top ribbing (with top folded over in half) Fits hands measuring up to 7.5, (8.5) inches around palm (circumference).

Sample is shown in size average.

Yarn requirements: 

C1 Ornament (blue) 100 120

C2 Tinsel (grey) 120 140

2. Mary O’Shea – Frostwork Hat  (knit)

Suggested Yarns: (1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering , Stone Soup Fingering

Finished size: Adult Average, (Adult Large) 18.25 (20) inch circumference

Length: ~10.5 (11.5) inches, from cuff to top (with cuff folded over in half). Fit can be adjusted to suit. Fits heads measuring up to 21, (23) inches in circumference.

Sample shown is size average. 

Yarn requirements:  C1 Ornament (blue) 180 220, C2 Tinsel (grey) 160 200

Yarn is sufficient for a C1 medium pompom

3. Caitlin Shepherd - Coalport Mittens (knit)

Suggested Yarns: (1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering , Stone Soup Fingering

Finished size: (Length=base of palm to fingertip)

Smaller 32 sts and 38 rnds 

4. Caitlin Sheherd - Coalport Hat (knit)

BC: Ornament (Blue) x1

CC: Tissue (White) x1

Suggested Yarns: (1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering , Stone Soup Fingering

Sizes

Smaller 32 sts and 38 rnds

Needle Size 2.75mm/3.0mm

Circumference = 21” (53.25 cm)

Height = 8” (20.25 cm)

Larger 30 sts and 36 rnds

5. Jessica McDonald - White Socks Christmas (knit)

Suggested Yarns: (1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering , Stone Soup Fingering

Finished size: (Toddler, Child) (Adult S, M, L), Foot circumference: (5, 6) (7, 8, 9) inches / (12.5, 15) (17.5, 20, 22.5) cm

Yarn requirements:  (120, 160) (220, 260, 320) yards / (110, 146) (201, 238, 293) meters MC, (20, 30) (40, 50, 60) yards / (18, 27) (37, 46, 55) meters CC sport weight yarn.

6. Kelly Martinelli - The Elizabeth Slouchy Beanie (Crochet)

Suggested Yarns: Festivus 8.0 Worsted in the color “Ornament”, Better Breakfast Worsted, Kent DK, Targhee Tango Worsted, Stone Soup worsted 

Yarn requirements: 210 yards/115g

7. Bonnie Sennott - Arquerite  (knit)

Finished Measurements:

9 (13) inches/23 (33) cm width; 67.5 (72) inches/ 171 (183) cm length, after blocking

Materials:

• Three (four) skeins of Bare Naked Wools Festivus 8.0 Worsted [100% Bluefaced Leicester wool; 210yd/192m per 115 gr skein], color: Tinsel, or 525 (750)yds/(480) 685m worsted weight yarn

• US #6/4.00mm needles OR SIZE NEEDED TO OBTAIN GAUGE

• Tapestry needle, stitch markers (optional), blocking wires (optional)

8. Darby Photos - December Mountain Scarf & Hat (knit)

Yarn:

Bare Naked Wools’ Festivus 8.0 Fingering

100% Bluefaced Leicesture wool

MC: Ornament (blue)

CC1: Fairy Lights (white)

CC2: Tinsel (grey)

Hat: Scarf:

MC: 40g MC: 27g

CC1: 20g CC1: 7g

CC2: 27g CC2: 138g

9. Anne Hanson - A Little Tipsy (knit)

Suggested Yarns: Bare Naked Wools Festivus 8.0 Fingering, Better Breakfast Fingering, Stone Soup Fingering, The G.O.A.T. Fingering, Blues Singer Fingering, Shetlandia Fingering, Jacob Fingering

Finished size: 60(68, 80) inches across top edge and 40(48, 60) inches across hem edge (blocked)

Yarn requirements: 625(825,1225) yards

Thank you for participating in the Red Scarf Fundraiser by Knitspot, now in its 13th year! Your contribution helps a Foster Care to Success scholarship recipient complete their dreams of a college education. Each designer included in this eBook is allowing us to showcase a pattern to raise money for this charitable cause.

The recipients of this scholarship are high-risk individuals who have aged out of foster care, heading into college life without a support system. We’ve been providing this scholarship since 2011 — usually to design majors, a plus for our knitting community — and have seen first-hand the huge impact it has on our student recipients.

Charity funds are raised through sales of original patterns and a custom-dyed artisan yarn, both created just for this event. During the fundraiser, we offer the designs exclusively through 12/31/2023 and donate 100% of profits to the Foster Care 2 Success Scholarship program.

Samples were knit in Festivus 8.0 Sport and Festivus 8.0 Worsted in colors Ornament, Tencel and Fairy Light