Airy

Airy

Airy is a light, loose-fitting cowl or snood, perfect for Autumn or Spring when a little more warmth is needed around your neck and shoulders. It is knit in the round at a large loose gauge and consists of stripes of 4ply/fingering alternating with stripes of lace silk mohair. It is designed to take advantage of the heat trapping properties of silk-mohair yarn, but you could use silk-alpaca or other fluffy laceweight yarn. It can be worn either right-side (knit stitches) out, or wrong-side (purl stitches) out for a textured look.

Airy can be made to any size, limited only by your yarn quantities, and looks particularly good as a snood to warm your ears as well as your neck. The widest size can be wound twice around the neck for even more warmth.

Suggested heights are 40 cm / 16” for a medium cowl, 55 cm / 22” for a generous snood, but you can make Airy in any length you want. Three widths are given in the pattern, narrow (medium, wide) approximately 54 (71, 107) cm / 21 ¼” (28 ½”, 42 ¾“), but again you can make the cowl in any width, just cast on fewer or more stitches. 

Finished sizes of the samples shown are:

White and pink medium cowl: 40 cm / 16” long x 71 cm / 28 ½” in circumference.

Dark purple wide snood: 56 cm / 22” long x 107 / 42 ¾” in circumference.

The white and pink/purple medium cowl sample:

Yarn A: Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal,approximately 69 g /262 m / 287 yds in colour 54001 Snowdrift.

Yarn B: Rowan Kidsilk Haze; lace/2ply; small scraps of various shades of pink and purple, approximately 7.5 g / 60 m / 66 yds in total.

The dark purple wide snood sample:

Yarn A: Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal; 100 g / 379 m / 415 yds in colour 54012 Blackberry.

Yarn B: Rowan Kidsilk Haze; approx. 19 g / 160 m / 175 yds in colour 641 Blackcurrant.

This pattern has been thoroughly professionally tech edited, but has not been test knit except by me. Full pattern support is available by email.

This pattern is also part of the Four Stashbusting Cowls collection.