Arboreta Cowl

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Get ready to stash dive and use those precious skeins of yarn! I designed the Arboreta Cowl with the desire to use my beautiful skeins and mini-skein sets of yarn that have accumulated in my stash over the years. The Arboreta Cowl is designed with two options. The first option is to knit in the round to form a long tube and graft the ends together. This version will work well with a main color and a mini-skein set. The second option is to knit in the round to form a long tube using a main color and a contrasting color, twist the tube once to form a Mobius cowl and graft the ends together. 

Sizes

One size

Finished Measurements

Cowl neck circumference: 32"/81 cm

Mobius cowl neck circumference: 33"/84 cm

Both versions width: 9"/23 cm

Materials

Cowl

Approximately 385 yds/352 m (MC) and 87 yds/80 m each in 6 colors (CC1-CC6) of fingering weight yarn

I used Gerschubie Fiber Arts Solfegè Sock (75% superwash merino wool, 25% nylon; 100g/440 yds [402 m]); color: Gryffin (MC) 1 skein

Seismic Yarn & Dyeworks Butter Sock in the Pretty Pretty Princess Speckled Rainbow Mini Skein Set (85% merino wool, 15% nylon; 20g [0.71 oz]/87 yds [80 m]; colors: Material Girl (CC1), Men at Work (CC2), Not So Mellow Yellow (CC3), Peridot (CC4), Blue Monday (CC5) and Purple Rain (CC6)

Mobius Cowl

Approximately 400 yds/366 m (MC) and 335 yds/306 m (CC) of fingering weight yarn

I used Knit Picks Chroma Twist (70% superwash wool, 30% nylon; 100g [3.53 oz]/437 yds [400 m]); colors: Natural (MC), 1 skein and Manzanita (CC), 1 skein

Two US size 4/3.50 mm circular needles 24"/61 cm, or size needed to obtain gauge

One stitch marker (to mark the beginning of round)

Crochet hook (for provisional cast-on)

Tape measure or ruler

Waste yarn

Yarn needle

Gauge

24 sts and 48 rnds = 4"/10 cm in mosaic leaf pattern worked in round, after blocking