Introducing Merry Stripy Christmas, beautiful, simple cowl inspired by Louley Yarn’s 12 Stripe Christmas Yarn.

NOTE: you will receive an update of this pattern in about a month or two, don’t worry it won’t be the pattern itself, I will have knitted my stunning Louley yarn into the cowl and I want to update the pictures.

I love Christmas, and I adore self striping yarn. When I saw Louley Yarns 12 Stripe Christmas yarn, I just had to had to design a fun cowl to wear that showcases this beautiful yarn.

This cowl is super quick to knit up and perfect for beginners. I love to wear a cowl tucked into a jumper or coat.

The pattern comes in two versions, garter and stockinette. It also comes in two sizes – fingering and DK, and there is nothing stopping you knitting this in Louley’s yarn and pairing it with a stunning lace weight yarn, maybe with a touch of alpaca, mohair, yak, camel, whatever is your fancy.

This pattern comes with a formula – really easy – so that you can maximise your yarn. This makes gauge unimportant. Just knit the fabric you like. If you go down lower than a 4.0mm on the fingering weight yarn or a 4.5mm on the dk, you would be advised to increase your stitch count by 18 sts per needle size to ensure it is not too small.

NEEDLES AND NOTIONS
4.0mm/US#6 needle
4.5mm/US#& needle
I used a 40cm/16”cord and a 60cm/24”cord
Stitch markers, darning needle, scissors

SIZE
Fingering: 43cm/17” high x 63.5/25” circ
DK: 35.5/14” high x 61cm/24” circ

Pattern has been test knitted

YARN
Fingering
1 X100g skein of Louley, Yarn, 12 Stripe Christmas yarn
Can also use minis, totalling 100g
DK
100g of various minis. I used 7 diffent ones approx 14g mini to total 100g.