Think of a clear winter day, skiers carving their traces into fresh powder snow, and frost on the ground … Such was the inspiration behind the textural details of Powder Snow Cowl.

Bold cables and a pentagonal shape with alternating textured and smooth sections make this cowl a fun and interesting knit, ideally suited to show off a variegated yarn. The cowl is worked in the round from the wider bottom edge towards the narrower top edge, with a patterning that quickly becomes intuitive once the five sections of the round are established.

Finished size (approximately)
Top edge: 46 cm/18’’ circumference
Bottom edge: 77.5 cm/30½’’ circumference
Height: 20 cm/7¾’’

Skills required: Knitting and purling in the round, casting on and binding off, working yarn overs, decreasing stitches, and cabling with a cable needle.
The pattern uses one less-common decrease technique which is described in words; for a photo-tutorial please download the separate PDF page that comes as an additional file with your pattern copy.

Charts as well as full written instructions are included.

Thank you to caprice2, crumbgrubbers, dianedlouw, dizzabell, JoEmy and OPKnitter for test knitting and to DancingGeek for tech editing.