Contains:
- Knitting pattern for quick collar-like cowl
- Suitable for advanced beginners
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 220-240 m of bulky weight yarn. Sample was knit in Miss Babs K2 (100% merino)
- 6.5 mm/US 10 circular needles, or size needed to obtain gauge. You will need to start with a 60 cm or smaller cable
- Six stitch markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Quick and easy to knit - we did it in seven roughly one-hour sessions as a holiday mystery in 2015 (“Just for You Two”).
Required skills: long-tail cast-on, knitting in the round, knit and purl, slipping stitches, binding off
Finished measurements: 60 cm circumference at top, 106.5 cm circumference at bottom, 34 cm height
Gauge: 14 stitches and 20 rows to 10 cm of lightly blocked stockinette
Note: Though conversions to the metric system have been made on this page for your convenience, the pattern itself uses American measurements.
Laura Aylor
If ‘knitting designer’ had been one of the job choices for those aptitude tests they give you in high school, I wouldn’t have spent so many years trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. My best subject in high school was math; my best classes in college were logic, drawing, and a commercial art class. After careers in computer programming/analysis and child-rearing, knit design snuck up on me, but I think it’s the perfect use of my odd skill set! I love every step of the process, from figuring out how to actually make what I’ve envisioned to putting the finishing touches on a pattern, not to mention all the knitting that comes in between!
I also love reading and hiking and spending time on Brier Island in Nova Scotia every summer.