The Moonfish dickey is a textured collar knitted flat from the bottom of the front piece to the bottom of the back piece. The neckline is shaped with binding off stitches and decreases, and the left and right side of the upper front are worked separately. Once the front piece is complete, stitches are cast on for the upper back neck and the back piece is knitted to the lower edge.

SIZES
Onesize

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Full length, front piece
36 cm / 14.25”
Full length, back piece
24 cm / 9.5”
Full width
33 cm / 13”
Shoulder width
7.5 cm / 3”
Neck width
17.5 cm / 7”
Neckline depth
8 cm / 3.25”

MATERIALS
Yarn
1 skein of The Fibre Company Cumbria (60% merino, 30% Masham, 10% mohair, 216 m / 236 yds – 100 g).
OR
2 skeins of The Fibre Company Acadia (60% merino, 20% baby alpaca, 20% silk , 133 m / 145 yds – 50 g).
AND
1 skein of Spincycle Yarns Dream State (100% American wool, 137 m /150 yds – 50 g), colourway Deep Bump for CC.

OR
Approximately 210 m / 229 yds of a DK to light worsted weight yarn for MC, and 85 m / 92 yds of a DK to light worsted weight yarn for CC.

Sample 1 is knitted using the colourway Blencathra on Cumbria as MC and Deep Bump on Dream State as CC.
Sample 2 is knitted using the colourway Cedar on Acadia as MC and Miss Me on Dream State as CC.

Needles
US 4.5 / 3.5 mm for ribbed collar
US 6 / 4 mm for pattern stitch

Notions
Stitch markers, stitch holders or waste yarn, darning needle.

GAUGE
19 sts x 30 rows to 4” / 10 cm on US 6 / 4 mm needles in pattern stitch, after blocking.

The stitch pattern is both charted and written out.