Diamond Quartet Cowl

Learn the technique! Download the Diamond Duet Cowl for free.

Get matching cowls, hats & mittens at 30% off.

Offers expire March 1.

The joy of knitting with 4 Colours!

The Diamond Quartet Collection brings the richness of combining four colors to your knitting. With this innovative technique, you only ever work with two colors per round. No floats, no bobbins—just a warm, squishy, and strikingly geometric cowl.

How to get started:

• learn the basics of with the 2 colour Diamond Duet Cowl (it’s a free download through March 1)
• extend your skills to 4 colours with this cowl or the matching Diamond Quartet Hat
• challenge yourself with the clever construction in the Diamond Quartet Fingerless Mitts.

The Diamond Quartet Tutorials will guide you with every step.

Not sure how to choose four colours? Miss Babs Yarns’ curated Quartets has a combination for every palette. Test out your colour selection with the Diamond Quartet Colouring Tool.

Yarn: four colours of fingering weight yarn.

Yarn Usage: 120 yd/ 110 m of each colour; additional 60 yd/ 55 m of edge colour.

Needles: 4.5 mm/ US 7 circular needles 16 in/ 40 cm

Gauge: 20 sts/ 30 rows to 4 in/ 10 cm in stocking stitch worked flat with yarns held double

Finished Size: 22 in/ 56 cm circumference, 7.5 in/ 19 cm height

Notions: crochet hook approximately 4.5 mm, 9 stitch markers, 1 end-of-round marker, cable needle.

Recommended Yarn: Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply Toes; Orchid (MC1), 2 skeins; Zinfandel (MC2), Butterfly Weed (CC1), Dark Pegasus (CC2); 1 skein each

Note: The samples for the Diamond Quartet Cowl/Hat/Fingerless Mitts were knit with different colours in the cowl edges/hat brim/mitt cuffs. This set can be knit from one full-sized skein of Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply in each colour.

Photography: Julie Crawford

Tech Editor: Kate Atherley

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