Ruabhal Hat Set

Name: Ruabhal Hat Set
SKU: 45580
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Ruabhal Hat Set and Oiseabhal Woven wrap patterncard kits by Alice Starmore in Hebridean 2 Ply

The Peigi Cardigan and Ruabhal Hat Set patterncard kit designs by Alice Starmore in Hebridean 2 Ply

Description

Measurements:Beret – Circumference 73cm. Brim to crown 27cm.Fingerless Gloves – Width around knuckles 19.75[20.75, 22.75]cm.

The Ruabhal Hat Set is composed of a beret and one pair of fingerless gloves in Alice Starmore™ Hebridean 2 Ply in a Main colour and 3 contrast colours. Both beret and gloves feature finely knitted closed cables and stranded textured colour knitting on the beret brim and the glove feathers and cuffs. I designed the beret pattern to expand around the circumference and then change in form to fit perfectly into the decreasing crown. The gloves are meticulously tailored to fit the hand shape and so this set will appeal to patient knitters who welcome a challenge in fine cabled knitting and intricate shaping on a small scale. This kit includes two colour-printed patterncards with full instructions and all the yarn required to make the Ruabhal Hat Set in your own choice of colours. The colours I used in the pale set of beret and gloves set shown here are a Main colour of Pebble Beach with Contrast colours of Golden Plover, Spindrift and Driftwood. The blue set is made in a Main Colour of Summertide with Contrasts of Pebble Beach, Driftwood and Golden Plover. The beret is made in one size and instructions for the gloves are provided in three sizes. Enough yarn is provided in the kit to make the largest size of gloves. The Ruabhal Hat Set is shown here with two woven wraps and a Sporan bag made in Hebridean 2 Ply, and with the Peigi Cardigan.

Click here for a digital shadecard of all Hebridean 2 Ply colours.

£64.00

Size

Main Colour

Contrast Colour 1

Contrast Colour 2

Contrast Colour 3

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Washing Instructions

Please note that all of our yarns are supplied washed and therefore do not require to be washed or fulled after knitting, unless you have an accident. Generally speaking, your garments should not require cleaning/washing any more than a coat would.

All of our designs are made with 100% pure new wool yarns and should be washed either by hand with pure soap in hand hot-water, or in a front loading washing machine which has a specific wool programme using a small amount of non-biological detergent. We do not recommend the use of any fabric softeners or any additives that will remain in the fabric after rinsing.

If hand washing, dissolve a small amount of pure soap flakes – or if using a pure soap bar, grate the required amount – into hand-hot water. Ensure that the soap has thoroughly dissolved before immersing the piece. Use a gentle squeezing motion to wash; do not cause any friction by rubbing or scrubbing as this will cause the fibres to felt. Gently squeeze out the excess soapy water and rinse well in warm water. It is important to remove as much excess water as quickly as possible as the longer moisture is left in wool yarn, the more likely it is to shrink or felt.

The best method for removing water is to spin in a washing machine, but if you prefer to remove the water by hand then gently squeeze the piece to remove the main water load and then lay the piece flat on towels and roll up, squeezing out as much water as possible into the towels. You will have to use several towels and repeat the process to remove as much moisture as you can.

Alternatively, spin to remove the excess water. If using a top loading machine it is important to place the piece in a suitable pillowcase (white cotton is best) so that it does not wrap around the spindle and become distorted. For both top-loading machines and front-loading machines, it is vitally important to remove from the spinner as soon as it has stopped: otherwise the piece can become permanently creased.

In all cases, dry flat on towels away from direct heat/sunlight, and smooth gently into shape. You can place small towels – or even better, cut and finish old towelling into the garment shapes, such as sleeves etc – and place inside the garment so that the two layers are separate. This will greatly help speed up drying process.

For straight, dropped-shoulder pullover styles, a woolly board is an excellent method of drying as the garment is placed on the board and dried to size allowing air to circulate inside. The board can also be used for cardigans in this style so long as you tack the front bands closed using a strong cotton thread, which you then carefully remove once the garment has dried. Glove boards can also be used for gloves which will allow them to dry in perfect shape.

Story

Taigh na Iteagan (The House of Feathers) sits on the shoreline, looking across Village Bay to Ruabhal (Red Hill). Looking from the feather store, Ruabhal’s eastern face presents a relatively benign view, and even now it is possible to make out ancient marks of ridges from cultivaton on its lower slopes. Evidence of stone quarrying and tool-making of possibly prehistoric date has been found among the scree. It is also a formidable rampart, sheltering the village from the Atlantic. Its western face has sheer slopes and terrifying, jagged cliffs dropping straight down into the ocean. This did not deter the men of St Kilda who scaled those cliffs for their bounty of birds and it was here, on a preciptous doorway-shaped outcrop known as the Mistress Stone, on the southern summit of Ruabhal, that the young St Kildan men traditionally pledged their troth. This custom was first recorded by Martin Martin who voyaged to St Kilda in 1698. He described the custom –“upon the lintel of this door, every batchelor-wooer is by an ancient custom obliged in honour to give a specimen of his affection for the love of his mistress and it is thus: he is to stand on his left foot, having one half of his sole over the rock, and he then draws his right foot further out to the left, and in this posture bowing, he puts both his fists further out to the right foot; and then after he has performed this, he has aquired no small reputation, being always after it accounted worthy of the finest mistress in the world”Standing, even with both feet on the lintel, was altogether too horrifying a prospect for me but as I stood in the doorway and looked down into the raging ocean I decided that I should design and knit something for a “mistress” that would display a level of finely-tuned skill which would match this awesome gallantry, if not in terms of life-threatening risk then at least in patience and concentration.

Alice