The Mysterious Snood
I hadn’t really heard of a snood before talking with my friend Kristina over the Thanksgiving holiday. So, what’s a girl to do but get on Ravelry and figure out what all the fuss is about? There are some cute patterns out there – just in case you’re wondering. When you start looking around on the internet, you’ll find that some of these babies are expensive! The one I ended up making is a knock-off of a Burburry snood that is reported to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $300!
The pattern I used is the Snooty Snood Pattern (Ravelry link). It’s a pretty basic pattern and in hindsight I shouldn’t have paid $7 for the pattern, but I’m lazy. It turns out though that I had to modify the pattern. I decided to try to graft the ends together to make it seamless since you can pull this up onto your head, and who wants a seam running down the top of her head? The cable cross rows on the pattern also aren’t right – it’s an 8 row repeat and on one of them she wants you to cross the cables after the 4th row. It was a fun pattern to knit and was really quick! I love quick knits this time of year!
I used 3 skeins of Berroco Ultra Alpaca and held 2 strands together. I used a size 11 24″ circular addi and because I used addis I had to use a cable needle – no cabling without a cable needle with those tree trunks! I love the tweed yarn and the cabled fluffy goodness of this pattern (the color is really off in the next two pictures, but I couldn’t manipulate the pictures enough to make it accurate – sorry).
The grafting didn’t work out quite as well as I’d hoped, but I don’t think a non-knitter will be able to see it. What do you think?
This baby was mailed off this morning and is on her way to Canada. The post office said 7-10 days, which makes it arrive before Christmas. Let’s hope that’s the case!
Category: Knitting | Tags: Snood 7 comments »
December 11th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Well, first, HI, and glad to see a post! Second, is that a guy or a girl in the first picture? Third, who IS that in the second picture (your hair is just a bit different from the last picture I saw of you!)? Finally, this snood business cracks me up. This thing they are calling a snood isn’t a snood to a child of the 40’s (sigh) and 50’s. A snood is a net thingy that covers your hair when pulled to the back. Picture Bette Davis in some old B&W movie. Oh, well. Yours was quite lovely, whatever you kids want to call it!
December 11th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Your grafting looks fantastic! Thanks for educating me on the snood – I’ve seen them around, but now I know what they are called
December 12th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Boy, I don’t know, your grafting looks pretty darn good to me! Quick knits this time of year are key.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:34 am
WOW! I agree – the grafting looks fantastic
It’s the cabling that scares me beyond belief!! How can you even say “quick knit?” 
December 14th, 2009 at 9:02 am
very nice snood! My sister asked me to make one that she had seen in a posh shop here too so I have , and its better than the expensive oen!
December 18th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Wow, those are sure nice.
January 16th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Really nice work!! Good job=)