Furballs' Full Moon Stone


From the last blog, Furballs& Remembrance Stone Poppy, we are now moving backwards in time to Mid Autumn Festival and celebrate with Furballs' Full Moon Stone in November.




 Furballs' Full Moon Stone is an easy and interesting knit.  It makes a pretty useful coaster, scrubby (using scrubby yarn holding together with the "normal" yarn) or cosmetic removal pad.  The round circle is knitted in flat rows. For me, this is not the easiest way to knit an circle but because it is knitted in flat rows and most beginners start with flat row knitting, so the common notion is that it is easy.  Of course, technically it is easy with no special cast on needed, but in the view point of writing out the pattern, it is more challenging to place the increases and decreases in shaping the flat piece into a circle (more or less).  If we knitted in rounds, we will have a perfect circle in no time and I personally think that it is worth the while to learn one or two different kinds of circular cast on.  


In particular to this pattern , the most interesting part is where to place the increases and decreases whereby the granite stitch itself already has increases and decreases.  So here, we used the most easy, or you can say the lazy way, by incorporating the shaping in the stockinette stitch rows.



Furballs at home say they will need to use two paws to knit up the circle and worth meowing when seeing the moon lol



Have fun knitting the Furballs' Full Moon Stone, and please remember to donate generously when you use this pattern in full or in part to your local cats / animals shelter.

In the next blog in December, we will look at adding more to this pattern and turn it into a decorative ornament for the holiday :)  Meow Meow until next blog




Furballs' Full Moon Stone

Materials

Yarn, worsted weight, non mercerized 100% cotton (0.4 oz. / 11.0 g, 17.6 yd. / 16.1 m) OR acrylic (0.3 oz. / 8.8 g, 14.7 yd. / 13.4 m)

Knitting needles, straight, circular or double point, size 3.50 mm / US 4, one (1) pair
Scissors and yarn needle

Gauge (Pre block, granite stitch in situ)

4" x 4" / 10 cm x 10 cm        24 sts x 32 rows (cotton)
                                                 28 sts x 36 rows (acrylic)

Measurement (Pre block)

Diameter                    4 1/2" / 11.4 cm (cotton)
                                    4" / 10.2 cm (acrylic)

Abbreviations

CO         Cast on
k2tog      Knit two (2) stitches together
kfb          Knit the front and back loop of the same stitch
k              Knit
m1l          Make one (1) (stitch leaning to the) left
m1r         Make one (1) (stitch leaning to the) right
m1p         Make one (1) stitch in purl
m1ptbl    Make one (1) stitch in purl through back loop
p2tog       Purl two (2) stitches together
p2togtbl  Purl two (2) stitches together through back loop
p              Purl
ppso        Pass previous stitch over
psso         Pass slipped stitch over
RS           Right side
sl1           Slip one (1) stitch purlwise with yarn in front
ssk          Slip, slip, knit
st(s)        Stitch(es)
WS         Wrong side

Specialty stitch: Slip one (1) stitch purlwise / part of selvedge (sl1)

Working on both RS or WS,


Step 1    With the first stitch on the left (holding) needle, use the right (working) needle and slip the stitch purlwise holding the yarn in front of the right needle
Step 2    To start knitting,  bring the yarn to the back through the left side of the slipped stitch.  To start purling, leave the yarn in front
Continue to knit according to pattern

Specialty stitch: Make one (1) stitch in purl through the back loop (m1ptbl)


Working on WS and knitting up to m1ptbl in pattern,

Step 1    Using left (holding) needle, pick up the strand of yarn running in between the stitches on the left (holding) and  right (working) needle from front to back and left to right such that the front arm of the pick up strand is leading
Step 2    Using right (working) needle, bring the working yarn to front and purl into the back arm of the pick up strand, i.e., from back to front and left to right.  The right (working) needle will exit to the back and right of the front arm of the strand
Step 3    Wrap the working yarn around right (working) needle as in normal purl, i.e., over and under the needle
Step 4   Retract the right (working) needle and the wrapped yarn through back loops and drop the loop on left (holding) needle
Continue to knit according to pattern
Using 3.50 mm knitting needle, CO 8 sts using long tail cast on

Start knitting in normal rows (knitting chart at the end of the pattern),

Row 1 (WS)  sl1, k1, k2tog until last 2 sts, k2 (6 sts)

Row 2 (RS)   sl1, kfb until last st, k1 (10 sts)

Row 3    sl1, m1ptbl, p until last st, m1p, k1 (12 sts)

Row 4    sl1, m1r, k until last st, m1l, k1 (14 sts)



Row 5    sl1, m1r, k2tog until last st, m1l, k1 (10 sts)

Row 6    sl1, kfb until last st, k1 (18 sts)

Row 7    sl1, m1ptbl, p until last st, m1p, k1 (20 sts)

Row 8    sl1, m1r, k until last st, m1l, k1 (22 sts)



Rows 9, 13      sl1, k2tog until last st, k1 (12, 14 sts)

Rows 10, 14    sl1, m1r, kfb until last st, m1l, k1 (24, 28 sts)

Rows 11, 15    sl1, p until last st, k1

Rows 12, 16    sl1, m1r, k until last st, m1l, k1 (26, 30 sts)



Row 17    sl1, k2tog until last st, k1 (16 sts)

Row 18    sl1, kfb until last st, k1 (30 sts)

Row 19    sl1, p until last st, k1

Row 20    sl1, k to the end of row



Row 21, 25   sl1, k2tog until last st, k1 (16, 14 sts)

Row 22, 26   sl1, k1, kfb until last 2 sts, k2 (28, 24 sts)

Row 23, 27   sl1, p until last st, k1

Row 24, 28   sl1, ssk, k until last 3 sts, k2tog, k1 (26, 22 sts)

Row 29, 33   sl1, k2tog until last st, k1 (12, 8 sts)

Row 30, 34   sl1, k2, kfb until last 3 sts, k3 (18, 10 sts)

Row 31         sl1, p2tog, p until last 3 sts, p2togtbl, k1 (16 sts)

Row 32         sl1, ssk, k until last 3 sts, k2tog, k1 (14 sts)



Row 35    sl1, p2tog, psso, (p1, ppso) until last 3 sts, p2togtbl, ppso, k1, ppso



Cut yarn leaving 6" / 15 cm tail

Pull yarn tail through the stitch to secure

Weave in all loose end(s)

Blocking optional
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