Pedersdatter is knit in the round, bottom up. It’s mostly knit with two colors at once, but there are several rows with three colors at once. The yellow and gold tulips are knit with the light yellow, and then the gold is made entirely with duplicate stitch after the knitting is completed. This makes it so that you don’t have to knit with four colors at once and adds a bit of texture.I think that it would be grand to knit with two colors on red row of tulips as well (perhaps pink and red) so that the entire cowl would be a checkerboard of tulips. It’s a quick and happy knit.

When I knit with three colors, I hold two colors in my left hand and one in my right.

Size
One size knits most

Yarn
Plymouth Baby Alpaca DK
Color A: 1 skein white 100
Color B: 1 skein red 1001
Color C:1 skein gold 7255
Color D: 1 skein green 1477
Color E: 1 skein butter 1104

Needles
US 5 (3.75 mm) 24”circular needle(or size needed to
obtain gauge)

Notions
Darning needle

Gauge and Swatch
24 stitches and 26rows = 10 centimeters/4”

Skills
Long-tail cast on
Knit
Purl
Knit stranded colorwork with 2 colors
Purl stranded color work with 3 colors on some of the rows
Duplicate stitch embroidery so you don’t have to knit with 4 colors
Catching floats
Binding off