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Gift Of Honey Cowl
This moebius style cowl is started with a provisional cast on and worked in a tube with slipped stitches forming the ‘colour work’ over two 16 stitch repeat patterns and then given a 180 twist before the joining the 2 ends with either the Kitchener stitch or three needle bind off method. Due to using slipped stitches for the patterning you will only ever be knitting with one colour at a time and slipping stitches along with the odd purl row. I have chosen to go with a neutral base for the Main colour (MC) paired with a high contrast colour (CC1) and accompanied by two complimentary colours to form my colour scheme, but you can choose to work with as many colours as you wish to when you are planning how your colours will play together. You can adjust both the height and length by adding / deducting repeats as explained within the Finished measurements section.
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This was actually knit for and inspired by my daughter as in design and colour combination, as handknit gifts for Christmas, and I think it can really lend to many different colour combo’s as my testers finished objects show and you can really make it fit your vision for it!
Knitting skills & techniques used:
Intermediate: Casting on, binding off, knitting, purling & slipping stitches purlwise.

Materials:
The following yarn usage amount is an approximate guide and is in fact a little over the actual amount I used, as I have applied a buffer in view of differences between knitters gauge and such, and so as to give you a few grams room. Also it is in view of making the Cowl as the pattern states (which is also what the numbers in the Finished measurements section are dictated by), if you choose to add extra repeats of any kind, for width or length, this would obviously effect the amounts of the required yarn:
Requires approx. 672 yards / 614 metres DK weight yarn.
For the Sample I used: Socks Yeah! DK – Coop Knits Yarns, 50g, 122 yards (112 meters) But any wool based DK yarn of choice should work fine.
Yarn MC: Pigeon, (Brownish-Grey) (amount used 246 meters / 269 yards)
Yarn CC1: Prunus, (Shell Pink) (amount used 134 metres / 147 yards)
Yarn CC2: Ammolite, (Bright coral) (amount used 117 meters / 128 yards)
Yarn CC3: Moselle, (Rose Pink) (amount used 117 metres / 128 yards)
Needles:
4mm / US 6 Either on 16” circular or longer cord length for using magic loop method or spread over DPN’s.
Notions:
Crochet hook of similar size to your chosen needle for cast on,scrap yarn, 5 stitch markers different from the unique BOR marker, tapestry needle / crochet hook to weave ends

Gauge:
4” (10 cm) on 4 mm/US 6 needles (after blocking).
24 sts (or 1 and a half reps of the 16 stitch Pattern Repeat for gauge) & 44 rounds (or 2 and 3 quarters of the 16 round Pattern Repeat). Pattern Repeat can be found under Step B on page 3, rounds 1 - 16.
(I would suggest casting on at least 2 of the 16 stitch repeats and working at least 2 of the 16 rounds - 2 repeats therefore, divided by a marker, and working through round1-16 twice - to have enough to measure, and also to start from the actual beginning of the repeat comfortably. Incorrect Gauge can affect finished measurements / yarn usage.

Finished measurements & relating notes: To adjust for size, you can either add to / deduct from the cast on amount of stitches in multiples of 16 (there is a prompt to remind you of this at the start of ‘Instructions’) If you wish for this cowl to be deeper in height, you can add further repeats of the combined Step A & B pattern repeats, by simply adding additional multiples of 16 stitches to your cast on amount. In the same way you can deduct from your cast on amount in multiples of 16 if you wish to make a narrower cowl. Knowing the gauge you’re getting for each 16 sts across by 16 rounds repeat from your swatch will help you with this deciding this.
Circumference: 16” / 41cm after joining, (32”/ 81cm before joining) Height: 7” / 18cm
These numbers are approximate and adjustable by skipping / adding extra pattern repeats. Height can be modified at the point of cast on by altering the amount of stitches there as already detailed.