Try three different stitches and techniques to make a color blocked cowl that can wrap around the neck three times.

Skills Used
Basic crochet stitches: chain, single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, slip stitch
Crocheting in rows
Decreasing with hdc2tog (includes written explanation)
Skipping stitches
Special stitches: dc/b and dc/f (intermeshing crochet stitches), FPdc and BPdc (front and back post stitches), puff stitch (pattern includes written explanation)

Skill Level
Intermediate

Finished Size
Adult: 4” (10 cm) wide x 84” (213 cm) long (blocked).

Materials
Countrywide Yarn Opals (100% acrylic, 1.75 oz/50 g, 145 yd/133 m) – 2 skeins ea in 15 (CA) and 49 (CB), or approximately 280 yd (256 m) in each of 2 contrasting colors in any light weight yarn.

US G-6/4 mm crochet hook, or any size needed to obtain gauge.

Yarn needle.

Gauge
21 sts x 8 rows (1A & 1B) in intermeshing pattern = 4” (10 cm) across. Exact gauge is not critical for this pattern.