The design for this super-cozy cowl was inspired by textiles in a hotel lobby. Concentric geometric shapes kept playing in my mind until finally I was able to chart the pattern and get it onto my needles. The interplay of this chevron-like patterning has a mesmerizing effect--while you’re knitting and when you wear the finished accessory.

Knit up a cowl with yarn from your stash, adding some magical new mini-skeins from your advent calendar, or exchange leftover yarn with a friend. The design invites frequent color changes, and makes an ideal knit for the advent season. It could be just as striking knit with two high-contrast colors.

While most cowls of this type are seamed within a band of a single color, this pattern incorporates a technique called stranded donut grafting, an incredibly clever and completely seamless graft that allows you to maintain colorwork patterning so that your starting and ending rounds are undetectable. Really! With many possibilities for color play and a new technique to add to your skill set, this cowl pattern is really an opportunity for knitters to level-up!

This pattern has been carefully edited and test knit. There are links to video and written tutorials, developed by Ellen Silva, for the special grafting technique.

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Completed cowl measures approximately 8” (20cm) wide and 24” (61cm) long (unjoined).

YARN
For a two-color cowl, you will need approximately 75g each of two colors with high contrast.

For a cowl with color changes, you will need approximately 13g each of 6 different MC and approximately 75g for the CC. You will use approximately 12g of yarn (6g of MC and 6g of CC) for each repeat of the chart.

30g of smooth, tightly-plied waste yarn

NEEDLES & HOOKS
US 3 (3.25 mm) 16” circular needles or size needed to obtain desired gauge

size D (3.25mm) or E (3.5mm) crochet hook

GAUGE
32 sts and 32 rnds = 4” (10cm) in stockinette stitch after blocking

NOTIONS
stitch markers (5)
2 very blunt tapestry needles