Every Which Way Cowl

The first time I touched Bare Naked Wools ‘Confection’ I knew two things: 1) I wanted to wrap myself in the yarn and 2) the amount of “spring” in the yarn would make it a dream to knit with. The natural colours of the yarn made it so difficult to choose just one and so I selected two shades of grey and the natural figuring on deciding on a pattern later. A few days later this cowl sprang fully designed into my dreams and quickly flew off my needles. The generous yardage in these skeins means that there was lots of yarn left to design a matching hat and fingerless mitts.


Skills Required:

• Lace
• Working in the round
• Increasing and decreasing
• Following charts
• Blocking

Finished Size (blocked): 56”/142.25 cm circumference by 8.75”/22.23 cm wide


Other Tools:

• Stitch markers (1 to mark the beginning of the round)
• Glow line tape (to mark current row on charts/instructions - optional)
• Tapestry needle
• Blocking tools

Yarn: 419 yards/383 meters of merino/wool worsted weight yarn that knits up to 3.75-4.5 sts/inch.


Shown In:
Striped Version: Bare Naked Wools ‘Confection Worsted’, (210 yards/192 meters; 100% corriedale wool; 4 oz/115 grams per skein), 1 skein each of Milk Chocolate (colour A), Cookies & Cream (colour B), and White Chocolate (colour C).

Solid Version: Berroco ‘Blackstone Tweed’, (130 yards/119 meters; 65% wool, 25% superkid mohair, 10% angora; 1.75 oz/50 grams per skein), 4 skeins in 2646 Salt Water. (The sample was knit with 3 skeins using every yard. Knitters yardage may vary and a 4th skein may be required.)

Darker Striped Version: Bare Naked Wools ‘Stone Soup Fingering’, (475 yards/434 meters; 80% wool, 15% alpaca, 3% other, 2% plant fiber; 3.53 oz/100 grams per skein), 1 skein each of River Rock (C1), Slate (C2), Pumice (C3). Yarn held double.