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This cowl is knitted from bottom to top in the round. The tubular cast on and sewn bind off are suggested, but any stretchy cast on and bind off will work. You’ll bring these llamas to life using the stranded knitting technique. The pattern is written using a main color (MC) and two contrast colors (CC) to make gradient llamas, but you can use as few as two colors or as many as you’d like.

This cowl is an inch narrower at the top of the cowl to offer a better fit and prevent flaring out to show the wrong side.

The llamas/stranded portion of the pattern is shared as a chart only.

Skill Required
Knit and purl
Work in the round
K2TOG decrease
Stranded knitting

Gauge
~26 STS and 30 rows = 4” in stockinette/stranded knitting (row gauge is not important if you do not mind how tall or short your cowl is)

Sizes/Finished Measurements (one side, lying flat)
Width
At bottom—12” wide lying flat, unstretched (measuring one side)
At top—11” wide lying flat, unstretched (measuring one side)
Length - 9.5” tall

Materials
Yarn
MC ~150 yards of fingering weight yarn
CC ~60 yards total of contrast color yarn if using only one CC color. If using two CC colors, ~30 yards of each CC color
Needles
US 5 (3.75 mm) needles (16” circular or DPN) or size to obtain gauge
Optional—US 6 (4 mm) needles (16” circular or DPN) or size to obtain gauge to be used for stranded portion
Optional—US 3 (3.25 mm) straight needles used for tubular cast on
Notions
Stitch marker (to denote end of round

This pattern provides instructions for knitting the cowl, but does not designate type of needles to use (two circs, magic loop, DPN, etc.). If your needle style does not require the EOR marker, please omit adding the marker.

About the Model
Yarn
MC=turquoise, Louet Gems fingering dyed with Saxon Blue over pale Goldenrod
CC 1=Terracotta, Ms. Crosby’s Hatbox dyed with Sorghum
CC 2=Gold, Jill Draper Esopus dyed with Osage Orange over pale mint green
Needles used—US size 3 straight needles for tubular cast on, US size 5 for ribbing and stockinette in single color and US size 6 for stranded knitting