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8 Bony Legs Charts I GB
8G 8G 8G Colorwork Charts with Optional Duplicate Stitch A pattern from Baba Yaga's Hut Deep in the Russian forest lives the witch Baba Yaga Bony Legs. An ancient and powerful figure, Baba Yaga lives in a hut on chicken legs surrounded by a fence of skulls and travels through the air by means of a mortar and pestle. She will eat you if you displease her, but help you if you are pure of heart. To judge by the stories told about her, Baba Yaga seems to keep busy, but perhaps she finds time now and then for knitting. And if she knits, she surely has a wool room for her tools and supplies. If we could (safely) peek into Baba Yaga's wool room, what we see in it? Sets of bone knitting needles, certainly, and cashmere and silk for Orenburg shawls; plenty of yarn for warm, wooly socks and mittens; and the charts she's collected over the centuries. And how Would she organize it all? Perhaps her wool room is a magical place which is different each time you open the door. One day it offers charts which reflect her relationship with the birds and animals of the forest, while on another it presents depictions of the characters in the tales told about her, and on yet another day it provides charts based on her hut itself. Open the door... ... And step into the Bony Legs Room. The Bony Legs chart is inspired by Baba Yaga's hut standing high up in the air on chicken legs. The central red duplicate stitch cross is the fire in the hearth. Symbols
Purl in relevant color
Note: Charts are given first "as knit" and then as they appear after duplicate stitch. Some of the charts have long carries, so be alert! The basic Bony Legs motif, first by itself..
... and repeated with borders added for a mitten or top-down sock cuf
36 35 3+ 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 25 25 2+ 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1+ 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 + 3 2 1
A little border pattern to tuck in somewhere:
Happy Knitting!
