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July: Doubles Grid

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This month's stitch is the secret to the decorative stitch in the so-called "Queen Gunhild's hairnet", dated to the Roman Iron Age, found in Haraldskaer Mose, Braende-Lydinge in Funen,
The bonnet is in the keeping of the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Here is a video showing you how to use the double stitch to make a clover pattern.
For those of you completely unfamiliar with the double stitch, you might want to begin with the clover pattern.
Create a lacy grid. The secret is the doubles stitch. Work rows of double stitches, each row off-setting the placement of the double stitch with respect to the row before.

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Here is the chart for the doubles motif. Add as many threads as you need to the center section.
The shape of Queen Gunhild's hat is more of a tam than a tuque or stocking cap. It is the second hat on page 33 of Sprang Unsprung. I wrote out more detailed instructions for these hats some time back. I attach instructions for this shape of hat at the right.
hat2.thetam.pdf
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