Øro Cowl

The sample cowl was knit with three colours of wool from Orø sheep, and feature a motif with nordic stars with two colours that fade into a solid colour.

CONSTRUCTION

Cowl is worked in the round and seemed when it’s long enough. You start and end on the solid coloured section (colour C).

SKILLS NEEDED

• Provisional cast-on
• Joining in the round without twisting the stitches
• Knitting in the round using a circular needle or double pointed needles.
• Stranded colourwork
• Managing colourwork floats
• Reading a chart

YARN

DK weight yarn with big contrast in following quantitites:

Colour A: 100 grams (about 275 meters)

Colour B: 100 grams (about 275 meters)

Colour C: 50 grams (about 140 meters)

Yarns I’ve used in the sample:

Orø garn (100% Danish wool, 275 meters per 100 grams). Natural black for colour A, natural white for colour B, natural grey for colour C.

There needs to be good contrast between colours A and B.

NEEDLES

3.5 mm for the single colour portion

4.5 mm for the colourwork portion

GAUGE

24 stitches and 27 rows = 10 centimeters