A close-fitting cowl with a little lace so your skin can still breathe. May be worked in doubled heavy lace weight, DK, or sport weight. The use of a smaller than usual needle creates a cushy, insulating fabric that tends to hold its shape better.

Optional cable needle
Needle for working in ends
Markers optional - 11 of one type for between buttercups (or 4 between lace motifs), 13 of another type for two rows within the buttercup motif.

knit; purl; yarn over; knit into front and back of same stitch; right lifted increase; left lifted increase; knit two together; slip, slip knit; purl two together; cable 1/1 RC (right cross); cast on and bind off with some stretch.

Use the stretchy cast on and cast off you prefer. I used a twisted loop to cast on. To cast off, I used Jeny’s Interlock Bindoff Every Which Way, which is a sewn bind off and has very little flare. I found it at YouTube and at Knitty in Issue 35, spring/summer 2011.

Knit flat and seamed, but a knitter with some experience can easily adapt this to knitting in the round.

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