Onward, The Cowl is designed to use a limited colour palette of natural Icelandic yarn. The yarn knits up quickly to make a warm and water-resistant hat.

Frequent colour changes make this hat ideal for beginner stranded colour knitters. For spinners, this is an excellent opportunity to knit with handspun Icelandic yarn.

Inspired by the Icelandic sheep who live with their shepherdess
on The Last Dance Ranch in “New Iceland”, Onward, The Cowl, represents the way forward early Icelandic settlers found when they came to Manitoba’s Interlake area around Gimli.

Onward, The Cowl, was designed for the 2024 Manitoba Fibre Festival. It is a complementary pattern to Onward, The Hat.

This cowl uses three colours of yarn:

• Main: 65 g (white)
• Contrast colour 1: 18 g (black)
• Contrast colour 2: 9 g (grey)