What you will need:

Yarn – By Seismic Yarns in the following:
o Main Background Colour – Karl the Fog Colourway, Approx 225m/246yds per 100gm (85/15 Superwash Merino/Nylon- Butter Sock DK Base)
o Contrast Colours-A selection of 6 20g DK weight Mini Skeins (approx. 45m/49yd per 20g); Yarn used in sample – Fallin’ Collection Mini Skein Set Volume 2 by Seismic Yarns (85/15 Superwash Merino/Nylon- Butter Sock DK Base) in the following Colourways: A – Plummet, B – Nosedive, C – Succumb, D – Spiral, E – Descend, and F – Crumble.

Needles – 4.5mm (US7) and 5mm (US 8) 16” circulars for knitting in the round.

Notions

o 1 Stitch Marker for marking the beginning of the round, and 5 additional markers for marking the repeats.

o A tapestry needle for weaving ends.

o Optional–RowCounter

Gauge – Approximately 24 sts/ 4 inches in colourwork pattern after a gentle blocking (however, gauge is not terribly important for this pattern).

Sizes – 58cm (23in) circumference and 41cm (16in) deep.

Pattern Notes:

• As the colourwork pattern is directional this cowl is knit from the bottom up. Please bear this in mind when deciding the order in which you wish to use your mini skeins.

• You can choose to knit this pattern with a main background colour and a set of mini skeins as shown in the pattern sample. Alternatively you can use a tonal colour background skein along with a variegated/self striping/speckled contrast colour for the mushroom pattern instead of mini skeins.

• For the sample cowl, I used the contrast colours for the ribbing at the bottom and top of the cowl. So when knitting the colourwork I used the first and last colour for one full repeat of the pattern. The other 4 colours I used to knit 1.5 repeats of the chart before changing colours.

This looks like this:

• Colour A – Bottom ribbing and 1 colourwork repeat.
• Colour B – 1.5 colourwork repeats
• Colour C – 1.5 colourwork repeats
• Colour D – 1.5 colourwork repeats
• Colour E – 1.5 colourwork repeats
• Colour F – 1 colourwork repeat and Top ribbing.