Berkshires Cowl

The Berkshires Cowl documents here can be downloaded free at JillWolcottKnits.com.

This provides the Access Code to the Pattern Tailor. Use the Pattern Tailor to create your own perfect Berkshires Cowl. Download the three documents to help you get ready for the Pattern Tailor to generate your Berkshires Cowl Pattern here, if you haven't already done so here.

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Berkshires Cowl

Why make another cowl? To find out how the horizontal stripes on the inside become vertical stripes on the outside! Plus, the Pattern Tailor allows you to customize Berkshires Cowl to your measurements and your yarn. The Pattern Tailor will also give you an estimated amount of yarn needed for your project based on your swatch, if you provide the optional information from the swatch.

Pre-Berkshires Cowl Access

The information you will need to prepare for the Pattern Tailor generated pattern for Berkshires Cowl is available for download here at no cost. The downloads give you access to directions for swatching and collecting information for the Pattern Tailor.

Your Yarn Choice!

Working with Malabrigo yarn is perfect for Berkshires Cowl!  Using the Pattern Tailor, Berkshires Cowl could be done in any of the Malabrigo collection yarns.  

You need two yarn;

• Non-matching weights,
• Mixed texture, or
• Different colors.

Pick your yarns, add in dimensions for your Berkshires Cowl, and make a completely customized your accessory.

Berkshires Cowl is a perfect combination of texture, color, and simple structure. I love how the horizontal and the vertical play together in the working of Slough stitch.

You will find everything here BUT the actual Berkshires Cowl Pattern. Follow the instructions to swatch for your customized Berkshires Cowl are written and charted: There is no cost.

Downloads:

1. Berkshires Cowl Section 1: It is available as a printable version and as a device (side-by-side pages) version. Both are fillable forms.
2. the Accelerator: Available as a printable version and as a device (side-by-side pages) version, bth are fillable forms.
3. and the User Guide. Also in a printable version and as a device (side-by-side pages) version. Both are fillable forms.

Sample Yarn: Malabrigo Dos Tierras and Caprino

Malabrigo yarn is perfect for Berkshires Cowl! The Pattern Tailor can create a Berkshires Cowl in any of the Malabrigo collection yarns.  Have some fun and use non-matching yarn weights or add textured yarn to add to the design. Have the perfect yarn in your stash? That works too.

• The pink yarn shown is called Neverland, in Dos Tierras from Malabrigo. Dos Tierras is a 2 by 2 ply yarn: Each ply is 2-ply, plied, before the two resulting plies are plied together.
• Persia is the color of the teal yarn seen in the sample, in Caprino, also from Malabrigo. The inside (top) fabric shows the horizontal stripes created by knitting two colors (one at a time). The outside vertical stripes are the result of the elongated and slipped stitches.

Before this became Berkshires Cowl I had a single ball of Oatmeal-colored DK yarn and lots of colorful fingering yarn which seemed the perfect pairing. I do not remember how I settled on working this stitch pattern, which I kind of made up using familiar stitch patterns.

Notes on Techniques

K1-wrapping 2x/3x.  Work the extra wraps into the non-slip stitches on the previous round. Use the same color as the previous three rows/rounds. There are several options for working the extra wraps. See videos in Section 1.  

Slip stitches. The yarn is always on the WS when slipping stitches in Slough stitch as slip stitches are "slip as to purl" unless specifically told otherwise.

Dropping extra wraps. Slip the first YO as to purl, allowing the other YOs to drop off the needle.On subsequent rows/rounds you can slip the two stitches together. You will be working the row/round where extra wraps are dropped in the other color.