Originally released as part of the Colourwork Club Mulben in now available individually. The Mulben cowl, is a perfect pattern to progress your stranded colourwork technique. Ideal as a gift to yourself or a friend, keep your neck toasty and never worry about losing your scarf again!

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The Colourwork Club includes three beautiful accessory patterns, designed to slowly grow your colourwork skills. Also included in the club purchase is access to the club group on the Ysolda Knitwork, our online community and learning platform.

• 3 patterns, which can be downloaded directly or added to your Ravelry library
• Supportive community full of inspiration and helpful discussion
• Resources to walk you through picking up stranded colourwork for the first time
• Tutorials and tips for each pattern

Mulben
Mulben is designed to give you lots of practice with stranded colourwork on a project where your tension doesn’t need to be perfectly even and gauge isn’t critical. The overall effect is complex, but stitch patterns are only 4 stitches wide throughout, with no long floats to worry about (we’ve charted 4 repeats so you can more easily see how the pattern repeats work together).

The cowl is a simple tube, tapered slightly so that it flares around the shoulders and hugs the neck. This shaping is achieved by simply changing to a smaller needle size; there’s no increasing or decreasing to worry about combining with the colourwork. A cowl is also the ideal circumference to practice your stranded colourwork tension on: working on one circular needle means there are no “ladders” to worry about at the gaps between needles, and the rounds are long enough to find rhythm and a more relaxed style.

Yarn
Heavy fingering / sport weight wool yarn.
Shown in Rauma Finull PT2 (100% Norwegian wool, 191 yds / 175m, 1.76oz / 50g).

Colours used for each of the Colourwork Club palettes are indicated under the corresponding charts.

If you’re designing your own palette we’ve worked out the approximate yarn amounts you’ll need for an 8 colour or 3 colour version.

8 colour version
Total yarn: 450 yds / 410m.
Main colour approx: 135 yds / 125m.
Contrast colours approx: 20–80 yds / 20–75m each.

The total yarn needed for the contrast colours on the 8 colour version are approximate and will vary depending on how you decide to arrange your colours.

3 colour version
Main colour approx: 285 yds / 260m.
Contrast colours approx: 100 yds / 90m each.

Needles
Needle A: Size 6 US / 4mm 24” / 60cm circular needle
Needle B: Size 5 US / 3.75mm 24” / 60cm circular needle
Needle C: Size 4 US / 3.5mm 24” / 60cm circular needle

Gauge
26 sts and 28 rnds = 4” / 10cm in charted stranded colourwork pattern in the round on needle A
Change needle size as necessary to get gauge, and use a needle one size smaller than needle A for needle B.

Notions
Stitch marker

Size
Length: 15 1/2” / 40cm,
bottom circumference: 28” / 70cm,
top circumference: 26” / 65cm