Cowling in fear...

OK, that last blog got a bit more attention on twitter than I expected!

I'm glad so many people found it helpful/ interesting, but I might just huddle down here for a minute while I process the fact so many people read what I wrote! So please forgive me while I distract myself by going back to the subject of this blog... Knitting!

A few weeks ago I made the 'Treads' fingerless gloves (see a few blogs ago for the pattern). I had a skein of the lovely yarn left after I finished, and as such decided to try and make a matching cowl. I'm quite pleased with the result, as such I thought I'd jot the pattern down here for others to find.


Complimentary Treads Cowl.

Materials: 
75 meters of worsted weight yarn.(I used Mirasol Miski)
size 5.5mm needles.
Stitch marker and tapestry needle.

Pattern: 
c/o 100 stitches in long tail cast on,
Join in the round and place stitch marker to note the start of the round
Rib K2, P2 for 1.5 inches,

Knit 1 round of Lateral Braid. (instructions on how in italic if you need them)

To begin, m1r and then replace this newly made st onto the lh needle.   
* Bring yarn to back. From the back, knit into the back of the 2nd st (the one to the left of the newly made st), and then, keeping that st on the needle and yarn at back of work, bring needle around to front, and knit into the front of the first st.  
Slip both of these first and second sts off the lh needle.  You should have 2 newly made sts on your rh needle, replace the leftmost st back onto the lh needle. 
Repeat from * for the rest of rnd. When rnd is complete, slip the first st of the next rnd back onto the rh needle point ** and pass the last st of the rnd over that st (as you would do a bind off).    
Replace the first st of the rnd onto the lh needle point.  

Knit 4 rnds,

Begin Linen Ridge stitch:

Row 1: purl
Row 2: *(wyib sl1, p1), repeat from *
Row 3: purl
Row 4: *(p1, wyib sl1), repeat from *
Knit 2 repeats of rows 1 to 4 of the Linen Ridge Stitch,  then repeat rows 1 to 3 of the Linen Ridge Stitch, ending with a purl row.

Knit 4 rounds,

Knit 1 round of Lateral Braid,

Rib K2, P2 for 1.5 inches,

Bind off.

The finished cowl comes to 5.5 inches. If you've got more yarn to play with than me, then I would suggest ribbing for 2 inches.

You could also make the cowl longer by adding more knit rounds in, or having two bands of linen stitch separated by 2 rows of knit stitch.

But it's that simple, matches the gloves nicely and looks great.

Here's the cowl.










Here's the cowl with the gloves

And here's the Other Half modelling them to check the fit, the cowl does also work as a headband, but he won't let me take a photo of that! ;)