Gent's Balaclava Cap
by Weldons
Piecework Magazine Presents A Facsimile Edition of Weldon's Practical Needlework, Volume 1
Pattern
Gent's Balaclava Cap
This pattern is
available for free:
balaclava.pdf
From Weldon’s Practical Knitter, Second Series (1886), and republished in Weldon’s Practical Needlework Volume 1.
“This is a most comfortable cap for gentlemen travelling or for shooting excursions, and is quickly and easily made.”
The original pattern calls for “1 1/2 ozs. of navy blue, 1/2 oz. of red, single Berlin wool. Two bone knitting needles No. 10.”
Approx. 125 yds in MC and small amount of CC.
