The Freedom Collection - Cowl

The Freedom Collection came to fruition purely as a way of using up all those scrappy bits of yarn that were abandoned in the bottom of my project bag, freeing them from the shadows and turning them into something beautiful. This pattern will instruct you on how to knit a simple but striking colourwork cowl using all those leftover bits of DK yarn – and as it’s knit with yarn you already have stashed away, it’s essentially a free project!

The Freedom Collection is currently made up of three patterns: A cowl, hat and wrist warmers.

I will strive to make most of the patterns within this collection free of charge, and those that do have a price will be on a chose what you pay pricing model with discount codes available to assist with financial accessibility.

Construction
Knit top down in the round using a two-stranded colourwork knitting technique, with ribbing along the top and bottom edges.

Sizes
One size - can be altered (instructions given)

Yarn
This is a scrappy project, made in DK yarn.

MC – approx. 30g DK yarn
CCs – 24 x 3g scrappy DK yarn – approx. 72g in total
Sample made in Toft DK shale for the MC and 12 Toft DK bright yarns for the CCs and weighed 100g in total.

Yardage
Total yardage - 225m/246yds, sample weighed 100g in total.

If you fancy knitting a cowl longer than the pattern, please allow for this in your yarn requirements.

Needles
4.0mm and 5.0mm / size 6 and size 8, 60 cm circular needles, or needles to obtain gauge.

Gauge
18 sts x 24 rounds = 10x10cm / 4x4 inches in charted stockinette stitch in the round, blocked.

Measurements
Circumference approx. 61cm / 24”

Notions
1 stitch marker, Scissors, tapestry needle, digital weighing scales

Skills Used
Cast on, ribbing, stranded colourwork.

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Full disclosure: why are these patterns free?
The patterns of the Freedom Collection have not been though a test knitting process other than me making the samples, I don’t have the funds for a tech editor right now, and giving full details of yarn weights and yardages in a scrappy project is really difficult! Plus, I wanted people to see my pattern writing style. As I’m new to this I can totally understand people not wanting to spend their hard earned money on my patterns without knowing anything about my writing style, so hopefully these freebies will give you all a little insight. Also, I wanted to make some simple colourwork patterns that were accessible to everyone. I have learnt a lot of my knitting skills from free patterns so I wanted to give something back to this wonderful community.