Caroller's Hooded Scarf Knitting Pattern

The advantages of this warm scarf with attached hood are two: It doesn’t make a mess of your hair at all, and it’s almost universally becoming. Though ample, it’s small enough to consider working in a luxury yarn, and a dressy version is more than possible. You can wrap it, tie it, throw the ends to the back for a slightly dashing look, or even make it in cotton for summer wear if you drive a convertible. It retains a kind of Victorian look that I like.

My friend Shannon posed in this warm and wooly one on a 90° summer afternoon, which is why the summer top and the winter headgear seem a little ill assorted. She was heroic to wear it at all; I didn’t have the heart to make her bundle into winter gear for a 'cold-weather' shot.

The Materials you'll need for this Knitting Project:

One of my favorite movies is a long-forgotten but immensely high-spirited 1970 musical version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with Albert Finney as Scrooge (both the old Scrooge and the young one, since he was then 34), Alec Guinness as Marley, Dame Edith Evans as the Ghost of Christmas past, and a host of actors, singers, dancers, and even bell-ringers, gloriously costumed by Margaret Furse, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her work. This is loosely adapted from some of the more modest headgear shown in that. It's becoming; it's warm; it can even be a little bit dashing. And it says "Merry Christmas," loud and clear.