I am fascinated by the little butterfly. Its arduous life cycle goes from the egg to the caterpillar to the cocoon, and then finally emerging as this beautiful creature that actually bears no similarity to the earlier stages. And after all this ‘hard work’ the little thing flutters around barely for a month (if not caught before that)! Makes us take a good look at our lives, does it not?
So this cowl has been inspired by that beautiful creature and is the next in my series: “Inspired by Nature”.
The word titalī (तितली) means butterfly in Hindi.
This cowl too has ‘layers’ and parts – so your cowl too starts out as a small ‘egg’ and then you slowly ‘build’ it up till you get the beautiful butterfly cowl.

This pattern has been extensively tested. I thank my rav-testers for their time and eye for detail.
Feel free to make as many of these as you like for gifting, local craft fairs, auctions, raffles, bazaars, but please do not sell finished items online. If making for charity, please let me know the name of the charity & include my contact info with the item shyama.nivas@gmail.com or on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/projects/shyamanivas