Snare Drum Stitches

Materials:

Gauge isn’t important for this pattern, but I used worsted weight yarn and size 6 needles.

Colors:

Black, blue, red, or any color you’d like to make the shell.

Light gray

White or off-white

Tan

Shell:

CO 24, join in round

Round 1: Purl

Round 2-6: Knit chart using fair isle (K1 round in main color, K3 rounds as CC MC, and K1 round in MC). On round three, you can add an optional extra stitch next to one of the gray stitches, this is the snare switch.

Round 7: Knit

BO

Drum Heads (make 2):

CO 24

Row 1: *K2tog K2* around

Row 2: Purl

Row 3: *K2tog K1* around

Row 4: Purl

Row 5: *K2tog* around

Break yarn, leaving a long tail, thread the tail through the needle and thread through the remaining 6 stitches. Pull tight and work a mattress stitch up the sides to make a circle.

Snares (make 2):

Take the light gray yarn, take two halves of the yarn and pull apart. Crochet chain 8 stitches. Repeat with the other half of the yarn.

Drum Sticks (make 2):

CO 2 light brown yarn onto size 1 needles

Knit in I-Cord for 5 rows

K2tog, cut tail, pull through last stitch.

Weave in ends

Assembly:

Sew the first drum head to an edge of the shell. Stuff the drum and sew the other head on. Tie both ends of the snares together and attach to the drum head you like less on opposite edges of the head.