After many wonderful years of creative commitment, inspiration, and sharing, Making Stories magazine is bowing out with this 14th issue. We have been fortunate to participate frequently in the collections warmly imagined by Hanna-Lisa, and we will always hold a special place in our hearts for this beautiful adventure, just like the lovely Ulysse hat featured on the cover of this final issue!
This issue focuses on the forest: journey with the team to enchanted old growth trees, clearings with rays of sunlight filtering through the canopy, tiny mushrooms on mossy logs, and a cozy cabin with a view over the woods.
Designs by:
Anna Hechtman, Emma Vining, Gabrielle Koizumi, Jimmy Myers, Kristin Bailey, Mami Hayashi, Nidhi Kansal, Rebecca Duncan, Sanni Pauliina, Sara Ottosson, Sol Le Roux, Solène Amary
You will discover in this issue two beautiful designs made with our yarns:
the pretty, colorful Beaten Track hat by designer Sara Ottosson, knitted in Ulysse “potimarron” and “merlot”, as well as the beautiful, very soft “Tales from the Cabin” shawl designed by Anna Hechtman in Ulysse and Bérénice “poivre et sel” knitted together.
Pattern: « Beaten Track » by Sara Ottosson, available in English in the Making Stories 14
The beanie is worked bottom up in mosaic knitting where you only work with one colour at a time. It has a triple-folded brim for extra warmth and the crown uses only one type of decrease. It is worked in the same direction throughout with the same size needles. The brim is worked in three sections: first a patterned one, then in stockinette stitch that in the end is worked together with the cast on edge, and with a final section of 1×1 rib which lies closest to the head for a better fit. For some extra bedazzle the patterned crown is finished with an optional pompom.
SIZES AND FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
1 (2, 3)
Finished hat circumference: 45 (50, 55) cm / 17.75 (19.75, 21.75)” – recommended to be worn with 5-10 cm / 2-4” of negative ease.
Length, with folded brim, not including pom- pom: 22.25 (23.25, 24.25) cm / 8.75 (9.25, 9.5)”
Length, brim (folded): 8 (8.5, 9) cm / 3.25 (3.25, 3.5)”
YARN
De Rerum Natura Ulysse Ulysse (100% French mérinos d’Arles and Portuguese black merino woolen spun in France – 202 yards (185 m) / 50 g)
MC: 210 (245, 285) metres / 230 (270, 310) yards
CC: 80 (95, 110) metres / 90 (105, 120) yards
Add 20 metres / 20 yards of CC for optional pompom.
Sample shown is knit in colourways “potimarron” (MC) and “merlot” (CC).
GAUGE (with 3.5 mm / US 4 needles)
24 sts x 44 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (in the round, in Chart A, after blocking)
22 sts x 36 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (in the round, in stockinette stitch, after blocking)
23 sts x 32 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (in the round, in 1×1 rib stitch, after blocking)
SKILLS & TECHNIQUES: German Twisted Cast-On, mosaic knitting / slip stitches, pompom making (optional), reading charts (optional)
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Pattern: « Tales from the cabin » by Anna Hetchman, available in English in the Making Stories 14
This shawl begins with a simple garter tab that forms the centre top of the shawl. A garter edge frames the design, with the shaping occurring by increasing with make ones. The design moves through three distinct stitch patterns, a quilted lattice, small cables and a leaf motif. A row of eyelets separate each section. The shawl finishes with a picot bind off.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Total length: 195 cm/76.77”
Total width: 43 cm/16.93”
YARN
De Rerum Natura Ulysse (100% French mérinos d’Arles and Portuguese black merino woolen spun in France – 202 yards (185 m) / 50 g): 4 balls OR 620 metres / 678 yards
held together with
De Rerum Natura Bérénice (55% super kid mohair, 25% silk, 20% wool; 210 metres / 230 yards per 25 g): 3 balls OR 620 metres / 678 yards.
Sample shown is knit in Ulysse “poivre et sel” held together with Bérénice “poivre et sel”.
GAUGE
17.5 sts x 28 rows = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4” with 4.5 mm/US 7 circular needle (worked flat, in quilted lattice stitch pattern, after blocking)
SKILLS & TECHNIQUES: Long-Tail Cast-On, cable Cast-On, reading your knitting, lace and cables, picot Bind-off
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« Making Stories 14 » is available here :
Thank you, Hanna-Lisa, for these wonderful years of creativity!
Photo credits: Melinda Dela Costa