Santa Hat

Equipment

• 6 pin knitting dolly, you could use needles but its fiddly
• 4ply/3ply yarn red, green, white
• half a black meter of cord 2mm , I use my own lucet cord
• 2cm bead with a face 5mm hole
• darning needle
• cord needle

How to

• make 16cm cord with knitting dolly 2 rows white 2 rows red (legs and body)
• make 8cm green (sleeves)
• thread 2 ends of left over cord though bead with a knot to stop it going all the way though
• thread remaining cord, from bead, 20 cm cord through arms dolly cord

• thread 22 cm cord through legs and body connecting to head and arms

• make jacket

• cast on 20 stitches in perl with white (knitted in the round 4 needles)

• knit stocking stitch 4cm

• continue 5 rows on 10 stitches each side cast off

• sew up top leaving a hole for head and side open for sleeves

• put jacket on passing sleeves though side holes, and head through 'neck'

• wrap black yarn around waist

• knot ends of cord for hand and feel, cut/finish of cord

• finish off all end

• Make Hat

Variation

Santa

red and white yarn use 8 pin knitting dolly for legs and body all red

Santa Jacket

knitted as a rectangle – cast on 20 stitches in white pearl wise – knit 1 row – change to red knit – stocking stitch 4 cm – split 5,10,5 knit 5 rows cast off on each part – crochet dc (English) each end of short edge then join to make a tube with dc – sew shoulder leaving gap for head