Use simple Tunisian crochet stitches with a beautiful chunky yarn to create a warm and cosy cowl. Work Honeycomb and Arrowhead stitches to create a simple rectangle, which is folded and then stitched. Only a small amount of simple stitching is required to fix the point of the cowl. Each cowl takes two balls of chunky yarn (around 230m). I’ve worked the pattern up in King Cole’s Autumn Chunky and Stylecrafts’s Carnival Tweed. Pattern is written in English and uses UK terms.

Plumptious Cowl - Materials
Yarn:
King Cole Autumn Chunky (80% acrylic, 20% wool) 100g/140m
2 balls in shade 5251 Autumn Sunset

Or

Stylecraft Carnival Tweed Chunky (70% acrylic, 30% wool) 100g/145m
2 balls in shade 7124 Gala

Hook: 8mm Tunisian hook with short extension cable.

Plumptious Cowl - Dimensions
Cowl: finished size of rectangle before folding is approx 32 inches by 13 inches
Cowl gauge: 15 rows and 16 sts to 4 inches over pattern

Plumptious Cowl - Abbreviations (UK Terms)
Ch - chain
st(s) - stitch(es)
Yo - yarn over
RS - right side of work
St(s) - stitch(es)
Tfs - Tunisian full stitch
Tks - Tunisian knit stitch
Tps - Tunisian purl stitch
Tss - Tunisian simple stitch
Tss2tog - Tunisian simple stitch 2 together

Honeycomb stitch - alternating Tss and Tps. First row start Tps 1, Tss 1, repeat across. Second row, start Tss 1(above the previous Tps), Tps 1 (above the previous Tss), repeat across. These two rows are repeated.

Arrowhead stitch - 2 row pattern repeat. Row 1 (Tss2tog, yo) and Row 2 (Tss 1, Tfs in the space made by the yo on the previous row).

Bind off - work a slip stitch row after completing last return pass. Insert hook into next stitch, yo and pull yarn through both loops on hook. Repeat for each stitch until one loop remains. Cut yarn and draw through loop to fasten off.

Plumptious Cowl - Pattern Notes

Pattern rows are Forward Pass instructions only. Follow each row with a Return Pass.
Return Pass instructions: Ch1, yo, pull through next 2 loops on hook; repeat from until 1 loop remains on hook.
Instructions in brackets are worked the number of times specified eg x2.
Instructions marked by an asterisk * are worked once, and then repeated the specified number of times.
The cowl is worked flat, as a rectangle. It is folded along the long edge, and the two short ends are stitched together. The sewn ends are crossed over to make a point at the front of the cowl, and the four layers are stitched together.
Other than the stitching specified, the long edges are not sewn together. This means the cowl stretches and fits easily over the head.