m1 - Using the tip of your right-hand needle,
moving it away from you, lift the running thread
between the stitch you just worked and the next
stitch, place this thread onto the left-hand needle.
Knit into this thread.

ddc - slip the next two stitches as if you were
knitting them together, knit the next stitch, pass
the slipped stitches over the knit stitch. Two
stitches decreased.

Gauge: 3 repeats = 6 inches, or 36 stitches in 6
inches or 6 stitches per inch, in pattern

Yarn: Worsted Weight

Needles: #8 and #10, whatever type you like for
working in the round.

From (a modern translation of) the epic poem,
Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns:
“But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow fall on the river,
A moment white - then melts forever,
Or like the Aurora Borealis rays,
That move before you can point to their place;
Or like the rainbow’s lovely form,
Vanishing amid the storm.
No man can tether time or tide,
The hour approaches Tom must ride:
That hour, of night’s black arch - the key-stone,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in
And such a night he takes to the road in
As never a poor sinner had been out in.”

The website that previously hosted this has dropped all of my old patterns. They are currently unavailable, but I may reissue them at another time.