Experience Level: Advanced Beginner
Show Your Stripes is a boldly striped cowl in two or more colors. Use worsted weight odds and ends or pick your two favorite colors for this fun knit. A cozy piece worked in worsted weight, this cowl looks lovely bundled under a jacket or worn ontop of a lightweight sweater. This design was Shaina’s featured Mystery Cowl Knit Along from 2022.
Construction Details
This cowl is worked in the round from the bottom up. Stripes are worked in either ribbing, stockinette stitch, or simple stranded colorwork that doesn’t require catching floats. The pattern is charted as well as written in words.
Techniques Necessary
- Cast On/Bind Off
- Knit/Purl
- Joining work in the Round
- Changing needle sizes
- Stranded Colorwork
Sizes: One size.
Finished measurements: 24”/60 cm circumference & 13.5”/34 cm depth.
Yarn: 180 yards each of two colors of worsted weight (CYCA #4) yarn, or a total of 400 yards of an assortment of worsted weight yarns to make a scrappy cowl.
Shaina’s samples were made in Manos Del Uruguay “Alegria Grande” (75% wool, 25% polyamide; 197 yds/100 g skein), 1 skein each of AG2540 – Kohl (MC) and AG2149 – Petal (CC)
and Yarn Snob Yarns “A Wondrous Worsted” (100% superwash merino wool; 218 yards/100 g skein), 1 skein Winter White (CC) and assorted colors in mini-skeins for the MC.
Color suggestions: since this cowl has very defined color/stripe patterns, you can use almost any combination of solid or multi color yarns. I would suggest using one solid with one multi in any particular stripe, though, unless your multis have enough contrast.
Gauge: 18 sts and 22 rounds = 4”/10 cm in circular stockinette stitch, blocked, using size needle to obtain gauge.
Needles: US 7 (4.5 mm) 24” circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge and US 8 (5 mm) 24” circular needle or one size larger than size needed to obtain gauge (for stranded colorwork, if desired).
Other Materials: stitch marker, tapestry needle.
What were the previous years’ cowls like?
2021: The Bubblicious Cowl
2020: The Chevron Frenzy