This pattern is an offshoot of my other beanie patterns. Suggested yarn weight is fingering/light sport. The pattern features a corrugated rib followed by stockinette, both in stranded colorwork. Instructions for varying needle size and yarn weight will allow for variety here, as seen in the samples section and as described in the pattern.

The pattern includes: A general overview; extensive material and pattern notes with recommendations for tutorials; a chart with an overview of how to read charts; photos of eight samples knit up with complete descriptions and notes; acknowledgments and end notes.

This pattern is an offshoot of the ṭāqīyah (skullcap)/beanie patterns I have been working on for some time now. The pattern can be knit up as a prayer skullcap or a beanie, and both versions in cotton, wool, or a cotton-wool blend (fibers tested so far). Suggested yarn weight is fingering/light sport. Gauge is roughly 8 stitches/8 rows per 2.5 ...

This pattern was first published in December 2023. I’ve updated two of the patterns that I think now will give nicer results. The method for avoiding jogs has been updated as well.

In terms of the knitting itself, the flag is done in intarsia using cotton yarn of any gauge, and incorporates optional buttonholes for flag attachment. I stress here the use of natural fibers as something to aspire to for reasons having to do with sustaining the planet. A computer script I wrote calculates cast on for a flag based on the gauge...

NOTE: Pattern has been updated for wool as well as cotton, fingering and sport yarns. The lifted increases have been dropped to simplify the pattern. Sizes included now: medium and large.

This is the follow-up to my Basiita Beanie: Salaam version, here using a square-kufic Arabic medallion that reads “Malcolm X”. The logo this is derived from stems from a project that our Beirut-based artists’ collective completed a few years ago: Malcolm X Returns.

This pattern was first published in August 2022. The only real update is noting the ability to use larger needle sizes on the rib of this beanie—I came to this pattern after working in cotton and assumed similar properties of the wool!

This design started out as a search for a knitted version of a ṭāqīyah—referred to in other languages from within the faith as an ’araqchin, kufi, kap, or topi. After a dozen 
or so prototypes I settled on this design, and expanded it also to work as a beanie. The design incorporates the square-kufic Arabic rendering of the word “salaam”—peace/...