Bliss is a cowl specifically designed to showcase gradient or long-repeat yarns. It’s also specifically designed to feel warm and cuddly around your neck. And to look exceptionally cool.

Beam is a drapey, elegant shawl that will take you from winter to spring. It’s named after those delicious rays of light that you need when it’s a record snowfall year. It’s an easy enough knit for the pub but interesting enough for knit night. And it showcases hand-dyed, hand-spun yarns, allowing their texture and color to shine without obscur...

A slipped-stitch (roughly) triangular shawl that starts with a garter tab and ends with as many spines of slipped stitches as you want is a perfect showcase for a highly variegated handspun or hand-dyed yarn. This shawl can be made with as little as 325 yards of yarn, or made as big as you have yarn for.

This cowl uses short-row techniques to create textured garter-stitch bands of a contrasting color on a stockinette background. It can be made with DK, worsted, or aran-weight yarn and, of course, the length can be varied to make it long enough to pull over your head when the wind comes up, if you like. Whatever size you choose, this cowl will c...

The Croissant Shawl is that most useful of wraps, a cross between a shawl and a scarf. Short rows provide a sweeping look similar to bias knitting, but gently curved. Cast-on/bind-off picots add tiny, jewel-toned details.

The Halfmoon Shawl is a quick, fun knit using two (or more!) colors of yarn. Short-row shaping gives you a sweeping, asymmetrical shawl that is equally attractive wrapped around your neck like the squishiest cowl you own or draped over your shoulders to take the edge off the breeze. Gauge is not important, but will affect the size of your finis...

The Wedge Shawl is a warm and colorful addition to your wardrobe and can keep you toasty throughout the year. It’s perfect for work, when the air conditioning gets to you, but it fits under a winter jacket, too. It’s worked in garter and stockinette stitch, which makes it easy to construct. But the alternation of the two stitch types results in...

The eyelet column cowl uses faux cables and double yarnovers to create an elegant and interesting pattern. Slight ribbing makes the cowl hug your neck just a little, but there’s plenty of fabric for ducking your chin into when the wind blows. You can, of course, adjust the ease and height by working more or fewer pattern repeats or chart repeat...

An interesting variation on the scarves sometimes called “potato chip” scarves. This one uses two yarns and an easy alternative intarsia technique. Gauge is unimportant; choose a needle size that will give you a pretty drape in the yarns you have chosen.