Fans of Downton Abbey’s amazing fashions, rejoice!

Just in time for holiday gift-knitting, A Head For Trouble: What To Knit While Catching Crooks, Chasing Clues, and Solving Murders (20 Hats & Adornments Inspired by Lady Detectives of the Roaring Twenties) was released in October, 2014. It is available in both electronic and paperback format both here and on my website: www.julieturjoman.com

Knit something special for your inner flapper!

American photojournalist turned explorer Jade del Cameron is the creation of writer Suzanne Arruda. A female Indiana Jones, Jade is known as much for her fierce spirit, outspoken nature, and sharp intellect as for her exotic beauty. A crack shot with her Winchester rifle, following WWI she heads to colonial-era Africa as a reporter for an American travel magazine. Still struggling to overcome the horrors she witnessed as an ambulance driver at the front in wartime France, she’s a compelling guide to the majesty and mystery of Africa in the 1920s.

Her neat cap, with its streamlined, no-nonsense shape and button trim, is designed to keep even her unruly curls in place when speeding across the African plains in her open Model T.

Errata: A reader pointed out the following:

P. 67 Seed stitch instructions: Rows 3 & 4 instructions make ribbing, not seed st. Working back and forth, instructions should be:
Row 3: K1, p1; rep from to end.
Row 4: P1, k1; rep from to end.

P. 68 Shape Crown instructions should be:
Rnd1: Sk2p, knit to next marker….

SIZES:
S (M, L). Fits head circumference 20-21 (21½-22½, 23-24)“ 51-53.5 (54.5-57, 58.5-61) cm.
Shown in size Medium.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS:
Head Circumference: 17½ (17¾, 19¾)“ 44.5 (45, 50) cm
Length: 8½ (9, 9¾)” 21.5 (23, 25) cm

MATERIALS:
Berroco Lustra 197 yds (180 m)/3.5oz (100 g), 50% Peruvian wool, 50% Tencel® Lyocell). Color: Seine #3181. 1 skein.
US Size 6 (4 mm) 16” (40 cm) circ and set of 4 or 5 double-pointed needles, or size needed to obtain correct gauge
Tapestry needle
6 stitch markers, one in a unique color
Two ¾“ (19 mm) diameter buttons

GAUGE:
20 sts and 40 rows = 4” (10 cm) in Seed St, blocked;
22 sts and 29 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in St st, blocked.