Nana's Ribbed Tuque

After much delay, I am finally uploading my interpretation of my grandmother's popular tuque that she knit for family and friends.  Until Randy shows me how to upload .pdfs and add photos to articles with Joomla!, a .pdf of the pattern can be found here.

The tuque can be happily modified for different sizes.  The standard natural black with a band of natural white can be modified or just left out, but the pattern presented is the 'standard' that Nana used for making her tuques.

Thank-you to Marlene Bumgarner for helping me proof read (and test knit, I hope!) the pattern.

This pattern is a free download, available to everyone for non-commercial use.


My grandmother made these tuques from scratch: the only part thing she didn’t do herself was shear the sheep!  On shearing day, she would select the best fleeces for handspinning.  Working with one fleece at a time, she would scour (wash) the wool, then flick it and run it through a drum carder to produce bats for spinning.  She spun the yarn and plyed it to create a chunky 2-ply yarn that would fall between a ‘medium’ and ‘bulky’ weight.  After washing the yarn again, the knitting would begin.  The tuques were knit flat (as opposed to circular) and then sewn up the side.  I have modified her pattern slightly to create a seamless hat.
 
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