This listing is for a PDF hand knitting pattern. Entanglement is a long cowl, worked flat across the width and seamed into a loop at the end. It uses three contrasting colors of yarn, with two colors of cables traveling over a neutral background of reverse stockinette and a small amount of garter stitch at the edges to prevent curling. It uses 200 yards of the main color and scraps of the contrast colors, and can be a great way to use up leftovers from previous projects.

The design was inspired by the physics phenomenon in which particles in a group cannot be described independently of one another. Anything which affects one particle will affect all other particles in the group, regardless of the distance between them. The colored cables represent particles as they twist around each other, split apart, and come back together again.

Required skills: Knit stitch, purl stitch, cables, intarsia color-changing, optional provisional cast on, optional kitchener stitch seaming

Materials

Yarn: 220 yards worsted weight in MC
50 yards worsted weight in CC1
50 yards worsted weight in CC2

Needles: US size 8, or size needed to obtain gauge

Notions: Cable needle, yarn needle

Optional: A second cable needle for the 2/1/2LC cables, a crochet hook and scrap yarn for a provisional cast on

Gauge: 20 stitches and 32 rows = 4”/10cm in stockinette stitch after blocking