Contains:
- Knitting pattern for lace cowl-shawl hybrid
- Charts included
- Suitable for advanced beginners
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 330 m of sport-weight yarn. Sample was knit in Madelinetosh Pashmina (merino/cashmere/silk)
- 3.75 mm/US 5 60 cm circular needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stitch markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
This is the perfect piece for the early mornings that give the first hint of the colder seasons coming on. A shawl-cowl hybrid that gives the look of a shawl draped kerchief-style around the neck without the bulk or fiddly ends, Hint of Autumn is just the thing for a slight fall chill and knits up quickly in sport-weight yarn.
Skills required: increasing, decreasing, yarn overs, working in the round
Finished measurements: neck opening: 63.5 cm; bottom edge circumference: 132 cm; depth in front: 43 cm
Gauge: 22 stitches to 10 cm of gently blocked stockinette stitch (both flat and circular). Gauge is not critical but will affect the finished size and the meterage required
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.