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Entries in cowl pattern (10)

Wednesday
Jan022013

Recipe for a Cowl

I really like it when knitting patterns are written as recipes, allowing the knitter to easily adapt and change the item as it suits them.

My most recent design is a recipe of sorts. The Geometric Cowl Recipe has several components that you can combine in order to create a unique piece every time you use the pattern.

The possibilities are endless - yarn choice (color-changing, solids, heathers) and color contrast, multicolored or solid ribbing, to braid or no braid, mirrored or continuous colorwork triangles…

I knit the two samples featured above, using the recipe as my guide. The difference is drastic!

Example 1: High Contrast Version

Main Color: Noro Taiyo Sock (color 3 shown)

Contrast Color: Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light (Antler shown)

Recipe Used:

  • 1 Solid Yarn & 1 Color-Changing Yarn
  • 2 Color Ribbing
  • Double Braid
  • Mirrored Colorwork
  • Double Braid
  • 2 Color Ribbing

Example 2: Subtle Version

Main Color: Brooklyn Tweed LOFT (Truffle Hunt shown)

Contrast Color: Brooklyn Tweed LOFT (Old World shown)

Recipe Used:

  • 2 Solid Tweed/Heathered Yarns
  • Solid Color Ribbing (MC)
  • Garter Ridge (MC)
  • Continuous Colorwork
  • Garter Ridge (CC)
  • Solid Color Ribbing (CC)

Enjoy customizing your own Geometric Cowls – I can’t wait to see the results!

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Wednesday
Oct102012

Indigo Swan Cowl Now Available on Ravelry

The Indigo Swan Cowl is now available on Ravelry!

Make one for a friend, boy or girl, and make one for yourself too.

Wednesday
Aug222012

Summer Stack Preview

I've been talking a lot about Summer Stack, my new e-book subscription.

Here is a visual preview of what's to come...

That Should be enough to wet your whistle for now!

Saturday
Mar032012

Riverside Cowl Pattern Now Available at Doodlebug Yarn

This quick and simple cowl pattern is now available at Doodlebug Yarn, where it will be sold exclusively through the end of March  2012. Then I'll have it for sale via my Ravelry pattern shop.

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This beauty is knit up using Malabrigo Arroyo. Small and large sizes require 1 or 2 skeins, respectively.

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Simple 2x2 ribbing and an easily memorized slipped stitch pattern make for a quick and portable project.

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Any heavy sport or dk weight yarn would do well, such as Malabrigo Arroyo, The Wool Dispensary Useful Restorative, or Madelinetosh Tosk DK.

Purchase now from Doodlebug Yarns

Friday
Nov112011

The Anna Cowl on Ravelry

(C) Swans Island

One of my designs - The Anna Cowl - in the Swans Island Fall 2011 Pattern Collection is now up on Ravelry!