Beaded Smoke Ring - #A39 

Add a touch of elegance to your wardrobe with this lacy, lighter-than-air cowl or head covering.  Wear to a formal affair draped on your shoulders or pulled up over the head for dress-up warmth.  The beads knitted into each end of the tube add extra sparkle and allure.

2 sizes - 22" [25-½"] circumference and 17" [18]" length, 275 [350] yards laceweight or fingering weight yarn; 108 [126] glass knitting beads, 5-½ sts./in., size 6 U.S./4.0 mm.

Skill Level:  Intermediate Knitter  

Yarn suggestions:   (F)

• 8/2 Tencel - 8 oz./1680 yds.

• Cloud 9 cotton/rayon - 8 oz./832 yds.

• Jaggerspun Zephyr 2/18 silk/merino - 1.4 oz./500 yds.

• Jojoland Harmony Laceweight merino - 50g/880 yds.

Sample cover page of the Beaded Smoke Ring knitting pattern.

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Flared Lace Smoke Ring - #A49 

An all-time favorite HeartStrings smoke ring.  The shaping in the pattern creates the flare on the bottom of the smoke ring. This is a versatile, elegant accessory that may be worn as a cowl, as shown, or as a head covering.

Pattern is for one size with finished measurements of 28" around at the flared bottom and decreasing to 22"; 18" long.  Laceweight or fingering weight yarn, approximately 350 yards.  Size 6 U.S./4 mm circular needle or size to obtain planned gauge, in 16" - 24" length.

Gauge:  6 st./in. over pattern stitch (approximately equivalent to 5-1/2 st. over stockinette.

Skill Level:  Intermediate Knitter

Yarn suggestions:  (F)

• Cloud 9 cotton/rayon - 8 oz./832 yds.

• Jaggerspun Zephyr 2/18 silk/merino - 1.4 oz./500 yds.

• Jojoland Harmony Laceweight merino - 50g/880 yds.

Sample cover page of the Flared Lace Smoke Ring knitting pattern.

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Silk Smoke - #H28

Another elegant, versatile accessory from HeartStrings that can be worn as a dressy cowl or wimple.

Knitted on circular needles for a seamless tube.  Although this pattern looks complicated, the stitch pattern is relatively easy and easy to remember.

Sized for Small[Medium,Large]. Planned finished measurements: Circumference - 22-¼ [24, 25-¾]"; Length - 17 [18, 19]";. Allow 525 [600, 680] yards of lace or fingering weight yarn. Both charted and written stitch instructions are included.

Yarn suggestions:  (F)

• 8/2 Tencel - 8 oz./1680 yds.
• Jaggerspun Zephyr 2/18 silk/merino - 1.4 oz./500 yds.
• Jojoland Harmony Laceweight merino - 50g/880 yds.

Sample cover page of the Silk Smoke knitting pattern.

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Smoke Ring with Lace Edging - #A45C 

This is a versatile neck accessory that can be worn pulled up over the head or worn as an elegant cowl-style collar. 

The lace edging is knitted first with stitches picked up around the edging and knitted in the round and completed with a decorative bind-off.

Skill Level:  Intermediate Knitter

Yarn suggestions:  (F)

• Jaggerspun Zephyr 2/18 silk/merino - 1.4 oz./500 yds.

• Jojoland Harmony Laceweight merino - 50g/880 yds.

• Cloud 9 cotton/rayon - 8 oz./832 yds.

Sample cover page of the Smoke Ring with Lace Edging knitting pattern.

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The style of this smoke ring features a wide scallop-edged yoke that decreases gradually into a tube. This makes a versatile accessory that can be worn as a draped neckline, or with the tube pulled over the head as an elegant hood-type head covering.

Pattern includes tips for using yarn that has been pre-strung and plied with beads so that every bead will show to fullest effect.

Instructions for 3 sizes: adult small [medium, large].  Finished yoke edge circumference of 34[36, 38]"; upper tube circumferences of 22[24, 26]"; length of 18".  Made in coordinating yarns with similar DK/worsted weight gauges:  main yarn (M) - 230[250, 280] yds., and accent yarn (B) that is pre-strung and plied with beads - 80[90, 110] yds.

Yarn suggestion:

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Stitch detail

Sample cover page of the Wisps of Smoke Ring knitting pattern.

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