Simple Colorwork Cowl Using Brooklyn Tweed Shelter
The Design
Searching for a small project to ease you into stranded colorwork? This cowl—a free pattern—is perfect! A simple one-by-one repeat in two high-contrast colors helps to get you used to alternating strands of yarn, while producing a striking, checker-like fabric. With one-color ribbing at each edge, and sized just right to keep your neck warm, you’ll have a cozy colorwork cowl in no time.
We knit the Simple Colorwork Cowl in Brooklyn Tweed Shelter, one of our favorite woolen-spun yarns. Worsted-weight and spun from 100% Wyoming-grown Targhee-Columbia fleece, Shelter is multi-talented. Not only does it have beautiful stitch definition, it achieves a characteristic lofty spring and a fabric with great structure—perfect for this cowl!
The Details
FINISHED SIZE
Approx. 24"/61cm around x 10"/25.5cm deep.
YARN
2 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Shelter( 140 yds / 128m each).
Or approx. 220 yds/201m of an equivalent worsted-weight yarn: 125 yds/114m MC and 95 yds/87m CC.
Shown in Cast Iron and Fossil.
NEEDLES & NOTIONS
US 7 (4.5mm) 24"/60cm circular needle, or size to obtain gauge.
US 5 (3.75mm) 16"/40 cm circular needle, or 2 sizes smaller than gauge needle.
1 stitch marker.
Darning needle to finish.
Blocking wires and T-pins.
GAUGE
Approx. 20sts= 4"/10cm in colorwork stitch in the round, after blocking.
Free digital Simple Colorwork Cowl pattern. (Download)
COLOR: Cast Iron.
COLOR: Fossil.
COLOR: Venezia.
COLOR: Cardinal.
COLOR: Fireball.
COLOR: Klimt.
COLOR: Pollen.
COLOR: Lemongrass.
COLOR: Northern Lights.
COLOR: Forest Floor.
COLOR: Deep Dive.
COLOR: Cadet.
COLOR: Delft.
COLOR: Puff.
COLOR: Caraway.
COLOR: Caribou.
COLOR: Sweatshirt.
COLOR: Pumice.
COLOR: Snowbound.
COLOR: Tartan.
COLOR: Faded Quilt.
COLOR: Soot.
COLOR: Stormcloud.
COLOR: Embers.
COLOR: Long Johns.
