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Monmouth Cap Patterns


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Here are just a few of the free patterns avalible online. Most pages that I've seen are the same pattern just repeated and rehashed.

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carls...er/Monmouth.htm

http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patte...ts/monmouth.htm

http://www.employees.org/~cathy/caps.html

GOF has some caps FS here a while ago too if I recall. oh & the closest to the thickness of yarn mentioned as "original" would be the Brown Sheep Burly Spun.

Now, what will I have to do to convince her to knit me one? My knitting skills just aren't up to a project like this.

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Funny that this should come up now. My friend, Mara Riley was just putting the finishing touches on her Monmouth Cap pattern this weekend. We'll have it for sale on the website shortly along with knitting patterns for mitts, Scots bonnets, and other period stuff.

Bob has been wearing the prototype around the house for the past two days. :ph34r:

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Welll felting does cover a lot of the mistakes........ :huh:

I learned how to knit from a book about a year ago, Origanaly, I wanted to knit some period socks...... but started on a cap..... Knitting a cap is easy enough, but I've decided that knitting socks is outta th' question fer me..... :huh:

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If your lazy and don´t want to felt something by hand, you can put it into the washing machine.

My mother tried it out with a wool cap and it works really well.

She washed it together with 4 tennis balls by 40°C for two times. If you want to use this method you must knitt the goods a bit larger because it will shrink a bit.

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Skittles is working on a ton of these at the moment, then on to Thrum (sp) caps next.. then stockings... including silk ones... should be interesting... She'll be teaching Sarah and the Govenor's Lady next... bunch of busy beavers the ladies in my crewe!! :lol:;);)

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  • 2 weeks later...

found a few patterns online pose the question o wot buttons be correct for time....wood, bone, shell,etc or jus to leave the botton off

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The best button (IMHO) is one made of the yarn itself. The original one (that everyone copies and that Kirsty Buckland, the knit Hat goddess has researched) just has a small little nib of a thing, about the size of a penut M&M.

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thank ye kindly gentleman. like to try me hand at new things and if each otehrs knowledge helps teh other then even better fer it.

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