Lapiline is an exploration into faux entrelac and patchwork. It’s patchwork stripe magic! This cowl is a great intro project to this wonderful stitch pattern that is super simple. It’s only knit stitches, yarn overs, k2tog and ssk – easy! It is a great pattern to stash bust with mini skeins, advent calendar yarn, leftovers and single special skeins.

Included in the pattern is a colouring page where you can colour in a cowl to plan your patchwork stripes whether you choose to use 2 colours or even more for ultimate stash busting.

PATTERN NOTES
This faux entrelac cowl is knit in the round to make a tube with the ends grafted together. The cowl can be made longer or shorter by working more number of pattern repeats to obtained desired length.

The cowl begins with a provisional crochet with waste yarn. 

The provisional cast-on in waste yarn is carefully undone once the cowl is knit to the desired length to place the live stitches onto a second set of needles for grafting using the Kitchener stitch method.

SIZE
FINISHED MEASUREMENT
A. Width: 7” / 18 cm
B. Circumference (adjustable length): 37” / 94 cm

YARN
Or sport weight in the following amounts:
C1: 355 yds / 325 m
C2: 355 yds / 325 m

Ombre 2 colour version
Les Garçons British Sport (70% Bluefaced Leicester wool, 30% Masham wool, 365 yds / 330 m – 100g)
C1: 1 skein of colour Louis’ Shade

Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool (100% superwashed American wool, 200 yds / 183 m – 50g)
C2: 2 skeins of colour Poppy

Multi-colour version
Crave Yarn Caravan (70% Superwash Extrafine Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Camel, 10% Mulberry Silk, 354 yds / 323 m – 100g)

C1: 1 skein of Idyll (light blue)
C2: 1 skein of Pomp (purple)
C3: 1 skein of Quixotic (green)
C4: 1 skein of Spheric (teal)

NEEDLES
US 3 / 3.25 mm – 16” / 40 cm circular needles - you will need 2 sets of circular needles for Kitchener stitch grafting