Molly Pitcher Lacey Scarf
Knitting along with History Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate
Guage: Not Critical Needle Sizes: US Size 4 Amount: 400 yards (more or less depending on the size scarf you make) Yarn Used: Jojoland Superwash Wool Key: Written k. knit p purl ssk, slip one as if to knit, slip another as if to knit. Knit both stitches together. k2tog knit two together sm slip marker Charted / k2tog knit 2 together \ssk slip one as if to knit, slip another as if to knit. Knit both stitches together. o yarn over - purl on right side rows, knit on wrong side rows
Written Instructions:
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Row 15 andbyond, reat rows14util saf is aslong ayouwould lWhn carf fthnthderd kt more rows plain and then bind off loosely. Weave in any ends and block to your hearts content. As a home schooling family we are constantly learning. I like to incorporate things we've learned into knitting. When I first created this pattern idea several years ago, we had just studied Oklahoma history. Included in that was history of Fort Sill which is Home to The Field Artillery Center. Molly Pitcher was made famous for her efforts on the battlefield and there is an award given in her name. This pattern honors her heroic efforts running along the battlefield from cannon to cannon doing her part to aid and serve.
A little about Molly Pitcher:
AnArtillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher) shared the rigors ofValleyForge with her husband, Wiliam Hays. Her actions during the battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 became legendary. That day at Monmouth was as hot as Valley Forge was cold. Someone had to cool the hot guns and bathe parched throats with water. Across that bullt-swept ground, a striped skirt fluttered. Mary Hays McCauly was earning her nickname "Molly Pitcher" by bringing pitcher after pitcher of cool spring water to the exhausted and thirsty men. She also tended to the wounded and once, heaving a crippled Continental soldier up on her strong young back, carried him out of reach of hard-charging Britishers. On her next trip with water, she found her artilleryman husband back with the guns again, replacing a casualty. While she watched, Hays fell wounded. The piece, its crew too depleted to serve it, was about to be withdrawn. Without hesitation, Molly stepped forward and took the rammer staffrom her fallen husband's hands. For the second time on an American batlefield, a woman manned a gun. (The first was Margaret Corbin during the defense of Fort Washington in 1776.) Resolutely, she stayed at her post in the face of heavy enemy fire, ably acting as a matross (gunner). For her heroic role, General Washington himself issued her a warrant as a noncommissioned officer. Thereafter, she was widely hailed as "Sergeant Molly" A flagstaff and cannon stand at her gravesite at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A sculpture on the battle monument commemorates her courageous deed. Taken from the Fort Sill website.
