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This cuff down pattern transitions from eyelets to the main Traveling Woman lace chart across the leg. The final edge chart spans the toe, with some sizes working the edge chart during the toe decreases. Separate sets of instructions, charts, and written lace are included for each size and yarn weight. The sock utilizes a heel flap and wedge toe, but provides instructions for a star toe as well.
Traveling Socks are worked cuff down, with instructions for small, medium, and large socks in both fingering and sport weight. The socks are pictured in size medium, fingering weight.
Pattern customizations include:
Special skills required include grafting, knitting in the round, and general understanding of sock construction.
Gauge, fingering weight: 30 sts and 34 rows per 4”/10cm.
Gauge, sport weight: 26 sts and 32 rows per 4”/10cm.
About the Traveling Woman Collection
Traveling Socks are a part of the Traveling Woman Collection, which contains 4 patterns and one chapter on general customizations.
The four patterns include: Traveling Woman, Traveling Scarf, Traveling Socks, and Traveling Cowl.
Each pattern is available for $6 individually if you do not wish to purchase the collection. Discounts or credits cannot be given towards the eBook purchase price after purchasing individual patterns. Individual patterns do not include the chapter on general customizations.
30 stitches and 34 rows = 4 inches in stockinette (fingering weight)
200 - 400 yards Fingering / 4 ply (14 wpi)
Malabrigo Yarn Sock (Light Fingering)
US 1 - 2.25 mm
Small (US women's 7-7.5), Medium (8-8.5), Large (9-10). Fingering and sport weight.
The Traveling Scarf is my favorite of the Traveling Woman Collection. It includes instructions for a scarf in fingering weight and a stole in worsted weight. Don’t be afraid to branch out, though. I’ve included tables for additional yarn weights and sizes.
The pattern uses two different methods of construction: (1) requires a scale and one provisional cast on; (2) requires two provisional cast ons and grafting, but does not need a scale. Both methods work for any yarn weight and FO size and are designed to maximize your yardage.
The pattern includes both written instructions and charted instructions. Instructions are given to use every single last yard of your yarn. You have two options for knitting the pattern, one of which requires grafting (the other doesn’t).
Options for customization include:
Special skill requirements include: provisional cast on, grafting (optional), and lace knitting.
Gauge: 25 sts and 21 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 6 (4.0mm)
Size: Scarf, 7”/18cm wide, 79”/201cm long
Yarn: Approximately 450 yards fingering weight.
Yarn shown: Little Red Bicycle Hipster Sock (80% super- wash merino, 20% nylon), shown in Leonidas.
Gauge: 16 sts and 20 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 9 (5.5 mm)
Size: Stole, 11”/28cm wide, 84”/213cm long
Yarn: Approximately 600 yards worsted weight.
Yarn shown: madelinetosh tosh vintage (100% super- wash merino), shown in Kale.
Additional instructions (but not yardage/gauge requirements) are provided for the following:
Scarf
Stole
About the Traveling Woman Collection
Traveling Scarf is a part of the Traveling Woman Collection, which contains 4 patterns and one chapter on general customizations.
The four patterns include: Traveling Woman, Traveling Scarf, Traveling Socks, and Traveling Cowl.
Each pattern is available for $6 individually if you do not wish to purchase the collection. Discounts or credits cannot be given towards the eBook purchase price after purchasing individual patterns. Individual patterns do not include the chapter on general customizations.
Errata
Error in: version 3
Corrected in: n/a
Worsted weight only:
Row 12 of the main chart written instructions should read “R12: k1 p13, k1
25 stitches and 21 rows = 4 inches in fingering weight, stockinette (varies, see description for desired yarn weight)
450 - 600 yards Fingering / 4 ply (14 wpi)
Little Red Bicycle Hipster Sock (Fingering) madelinetosh tosh vintage (Worsted)
US 6 - 4.0 mm US 9 - 5.5 mm
7"/18cm–11"/28cm wide, 79"/201cm–84/213cm long
I have a secret love for cowls: they combine knitting the round, miles of stockinette, and warm, cozy comfort into one fantastically quick project.
Of all of the projects in the Traveling Woman Collection, Traveling Cowl is the quickest and easiest to customize. The pattern includes instructions for fingering and worsted weight yarns, both of which have a large and small size. If stockinette stitch is not your thing, I provide instructions for knitting the cowl all in lace without the stockinette stitch. The pattern is written in the round with additional instructions included for working the cowl flat with buttonholes.
Knit in the round or knit flat, your choice. Options to work the cowl entirely in lace or to add some emphasis to the lace pattern. Includes both charted and written lace instructions. The cowl comes in four different options depending on your yarn and cowl preference. If you prefer loose cowls, both large sizes are knit at a looser gauge, allowing the cowl to gently fall down your neck. The small/snug cowls are knit at a tighter gauge to allow for more sturdy construction. The larger cowls emphasize the lace, while the smaller cowls are built for warmth. Your choice of fingering weight or worsted weight, with a bonus bulky verion.
The lace motif is charted and written.
Customizations include instructions for additional yarn weights and an all-lace cowl. You should be familiar with knitting in the round or attaching buttons.
Size: medium (20”/51 cm worked flat only)
Gauge: 10 sts and 14 rows per 4”/10 cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 11 (8.0mm) needle
Yarn: Approximately 92 yards bulky weight.
Yarn shown: Schulana Capo Nord (100% wool), shown in #56, 1 skein.
Size: large (21”/53 cm round or 22.5”/57 cm flat)
Gauge: 16 sts and 20 rows per 4”/10 cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 9 (5.5mm) needle
Yarn: Approximately 120 yards worsted weight yarn.
Yarn shown: Fiberphile Super Squish Worsted (100% superwash merino), shown in Mossy Bank.
Size: small (17”/43 cm round or 16”/41 cm flat)
Gauge: 20 sts and 24 rows per 4”/10 cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 7 (4.5mm) needle
Yarn: Approximately 100 yards worsted weight yarn.
Size: large (22”/56 cm round or 24”/61 cm flat)
Gauge: 20 sts and 28 rows per 4”/10 cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 6 (4.0mm) needle
Yarn: Approximately 300 yards fingering weight yarn.
Size: small (18”/46 cm round or 19”/48 cm flat)
Gauge: 22 sts and 32 rows per 4”/10 cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 5 (3.75mm) needle
Yarn: Approximately 270 yards fingering weight yarn.
About the Traveling Woman Collection
Traveling Cowl is a part of the Traveling Woman Collection, which contains 4 patterns and one chapter on general customizations.
The four patterns include: Traveling Woman, Traveling Scarf, Traveling Socks, and Traveling Cowl.
Each pattern is available for $6 individually if you do not wish to purchase the collection. Discounts or credits cannot be given towards the eBook purchase price after purchasing individual patterns. Individual patterns do not include the chapter on general customizations.
16 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches in worsted weight, stockinette (varies, see description for desired yarn weight)
90 - 300 yards Worsted / 10 ply (9 wpi)
Fiberphile Hand-Dyed Yarns & Fibers Super Squish Worsted (Worsted) Little Red Bicycle Hipster Sock (Fingering) Schulana Capo Nord (Super Bulky)
US 9 - 5.5 mm US 7 - 4.5 mm US 11 - 8.0 mm US 6 - 4.0 mm
Small (16"–18"), medium (20"), large (21"–24")
Being an indecisive individual, this shawl is named after two things. First, the song “Travelling Woman” by Bat for Lashes (she’s British, hence the extra “l”). “Travelling Woman” is a song about a brilliant woman with a promising future, who loses it all because she fell in love with a man who had too much potential, and not enough substance. She sings:
Hang on, travelling woman
Don’t sacrifice your plan
Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man.
The edge of the shawl represents the dangerous web of love, as well as its highs and lows. Along the bind off edge, the shawl can be blocked to subtle points, or straight.
Second, the character Angela Montenegro on Bones. If you’re familiar with Angela’s character, I think the song selection makes sense: she’s artistic, a believer in love, and just the type who might get in a little too deep before she can find her way out (she did get married in Fiji to a complete stranger, afterall). This is the second in a series of patterns based on the characters from the Bones television show.
And finally, the yarn used for this shawl traveled from California to London: it’s only fitting that the pattern be named Traveling Woman.
This is the pattern that started it all. The original. The first. The crazy idea that exploded into a series of four patterns. This new version of Traveling Woman contains instructions for 11 different sizes in 5 yarn weights: lace (medium, xlarge), fingering (xsmall, small, medium, large), sport/dk (xsmall, small, xlarge), and worsted (large, xlarge). Instructions are divided up based on yarn weights. Yarn informa- tion, gauge, and needle sizes are provided with each in- dividual set of instructions. All of the instructions use the same charts except for lace weight. Lace weight instructions have their own charts.
I may or may not have gone a little overboard when I decided to re-vamp the original Traveling Woman pattern. It includes a lot of upgrades! Row-by-row stitch counts are included for all of the sizes listed in the pattern. Instructions are given for common repeat sizes, as well as a formula for custom sizing.
Note that when purchased separately from the Traveling Woman Collection, this pattern includes 2 PDFs: one with the pattern, and one with the legends.
Traveling Woman includes:
Gauge and needle information applies to all sizes for each yarn weight unless otherwise specified.
Gauge: 24 sts and 26 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 6 (4.0mm)
Size: Medium, 16”/41cm deep, 57”/145cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 430 yards lace weight.
Size: XLarge, 23.5”/60cm deep, 70”/178 cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 500 yards lace weight.
Yarn shown: Little Red Bicycle Penny Farthing Lace (80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon. 580 yards/115 grams), shown in Seaglass.
Gauge: 20 sts and 29 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 6 (4.0mm)
Size: Xsmall, 15”/38cm deep, 48”/122cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 320 yards fingering weight.
Yarn shown: The Plucky Knitter Merino Cashmere Nylon Fingering Weight (80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon. 385 yards/115 grams), shown in Queensway.
Size: Small, 17”/43 cm deep, 56”/142cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 380 yards fingering weight.
Size: Medium, 18”/46cm deep, 58”/147cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 440 yards fingering weight.
Size: Large, 24”/61cm deep, 75”/190.5cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 600 yards fingering weight.
Gauge: 17 sts and 26 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 7 (4.5mm)
Size: Xsmall, 14”/35.5cm deep, 50”/127cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 250 yards sport weight.
Size: Small, 16”/41cm deep, 54”/137cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 335 yards sport weight.
Gauge: 16 sts and 24 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 8 (5.0mm)
Size: Xlarge, 24”/61cm deep, 72”/183cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 520 yards DK weight.
Yarn shown: Femme Fatale Fibers Lilith DK (100% super- wash merino. 260 yards/115 grams), shown in Mystic.
Gauge: 16 sts and 20 rows per 4”/10cm, stockinette stitch
Needle: US 9 (5.5mm)
Size: Large, 18.5”/47cm deep, 60”/152cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 390 yards worsted weight.
Yarn shown: Malabrigo Rios (100% superwash merino. 210 yards/100 grams), shown in Pearl Ten.
Size: Xlarge, 20”/51cm deep, 62”/157cm wingspan
Yarn: Approximately 500 yards worsted weight.
About the Traveling Woman Collection
Traveling Woman is a part of the Traveling Woman Collection, which contains 4 patterns and one chapter on general customizations.
The four patterns include: Traveling Woman, Traveling Scarf, Traveling Socks, and Traveling Cowl.
Each pattern is available for $6 individually if you do not wish to purchase the collection. Discounts or credits cannot be given towards the eBook purchase price after purchasing individual patterns. Individual patterns do not include the chapter on general customizations.
Errata
Error in: ebook v6 (page 10), pattern v8 (page 2)
Corrected in: n/a
Error “Size Medium only”
Instructions should end with 191 stitches, not 189 stitches.
Error: “Size XLarge only”
Instructions should read:
Next row: k3, yo, p2tog, p to last 5 sts (removing both center markers as you come to them), p2tog, yo, k3. (217 sts)
Free version
The original version of this pattern was, and always will remain, free. This includes instructions for size x-small knit in fingering weight, using approximately 320 yards.
The is an error on row 12 of Chart A: there are 2 extra stitches on each side. This will not impact your knitting if you work the stitches as established.)
Click here to download the free version (PDF version 1.3).
20 stitches and 29 rows = 4 inches in fingering weight, stockinette (varies, see description for desired yarn weight)
250 - 600 yards Fingering / 4 ply (14 wpi)
The Plucky Knitter Merino Cashmere Nylon Fingering (Fingering) Little Red Bicycle Penny Farthing Lace (Lace) Malabrigo Yarn Rios (Worsted)
US 6 - 4.0 mm US 7 - 4.5 mm US 8 - 5.0 mm US 9 - 5.5 mm
Multiple, ranging from 14"/35.5cm–24"/61cm deep with 48"/122cm–72"/183cm wingspan
