Decided to alter start to a diagonal to avoid a strong horizontal change when cowl seamed.

I used an option I found in a pattern for something else entirely: ch mult 6 + 3. skip 3, dc in next 3 ch. skip 2, slst in next. repeat is ch3, dc in next 3, skip 2, slst in next ch.

After the diagonal beginning, I just worked a standard c2c rectangle till the work was long enough to wrap around my neck twice with some slack 54” / 140 cm and 6” / 15cm wide.

I made sure to end on a row that had tiles oriented opposite to those in the first row. i.e. front facing horizontal vs back facing vertical.

I then joined the last to the first row, whip stitching into the top of each dc on one tile on one end & around the ch 3 of the tile on the other end, making sure not to pull too tightly as I wanted it to look as much as possible like dc’s worked around ch 3 elsewhere.

Note: this was an unlabelled mill-end yarn so I didn’t know how many metres per gram. To find out, I weighed a scrap ball I had 8.5g then measured the length 1440cm, which told me there was 170cm / 1g or 170m / 100g.

ps this is the first project for which I’ve used the jarrah hook my husband made me. just love it!