Why I Love Cowls
What do you wear most — scarves, shawls, or cowls?
Reasons I love to knit and wear cowls:
🌿 They’re the easiest kind of scarf to wear & they never get in my way when I’m hiking or cycling.
🌿 They’re a beautiful canvas for colourwork & textures.
🌿 Knitting tube cowls means no shaping and no wrong side!
🌿 The minimalist throw-over style fits with your sporty yet elegant lifestyle.
🌿 They make for a quick, satisfying project that doesn’t take a lot of yarn.
Here are a few of my most-worn cowl patterns:
Ayako is wearing a brown, beige, and white cowl with intricate colourwork.
Pacific Arches
This one is perfect for using those special skeins of gradient or variegated yarn paired with a solid. It was inspired by some famous Seattle architecture and it can make you feel like you’re wearing a masterpiece with all those gorgeous, intricate lines. Make yours in neutrals like I showed here or bright colours to cheer up every day.
I used Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool in Stay Ready paired with Hazel Knits Artisan Sock in Nekkid.
Wongela is adjusting her braids. She’s wearing a striped cowl in soft shades of pale grey and green. Image 2: Closeup of Wongela’s hand holding a striped cowl.
Slanted Stripes
This cowl is for you if you’re in the mood for stripes, love chevrons, and don’t want too much fuss. The chevron stripes are created with some simple repeated increases and decreases, so you can just enjoy the yarn as you work! This is a great option if you’ve got skeins of self-striping or speckled yarn.
Alternate yarn idea: Try a speckled yarn paired with a solid in one of the speckle colours!
In the sample shown above I used Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool in Deep Bump and Versus in Slow & Steady.
Andrea from the back. She's wearing a beige and grey textured cowl with a pink tank top and green leafy crown.
Botanical Sampler Cowl
This neutral, textured cowl may be my most worn knit ever?? It goes with all my outfits without having to think about it, it’s warm, comfortable and soft, and it’s cute! When I feel the urge for more colour, I can grab my pink and gold one, but apparently I’m more likely to tone it down on a day-to-day basis.
Botanical Sampler is worked as a tube so you never have to worry about working or seeing the wrong side of the lace. It’s got stretches of meditative Stockinette stitch in between more fun lace patterns, so the project zooms by with all that motivation to get to the next thing.
See them in action!
Here’s how the three cowls I’m highlighting look with my cute green Seablush sweater.
Andrea is trying on three different cowls with a vivid green sweater.
Coming Soon!
Speaking of cowls, here’s a cute blurry peek of my next pattern, Under the Canopy, coming in March I hope! Verdant plant life colourwork forever!
A blurred out portrait of Andrea wearing a colourwork cowl in shades of teal and black.
If you liked that style video, here’s one more showing my stying my Botanical Sampler cowl with three different coats.
How about you? Do you wear cowls for your outdoor adventures? And do you find yourself grabbing the neutral or bright option? Tell me about your cowl thoughts in the comments!
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