I am a cowl lover. Keeping my neck warm is of primary concern. I wear them out, I wear them under a coat, I wear them around my house and keep the heating bill down. I have lightweight cowls that I wear on cool high-desert summer evenings, I have big thick wooly cowls I wear in the dead of winter. I basically just love cowls all the time.
When I don’t know what to knit, I generally knit a cowl. The round and round and round is a good process for my hands to keep busy with while my brain thinks of other things. And a cowl is a great way to play with a stitch pattern that I want to contemplate. It’s like knitting meditation.
That’s why I’m so excited about Laura Nelkin’s new Craftsy class, Design Your Own Cowl. She gives you 12 design options, walks you through the steps, and pays special attention to edgings, and stretchy cast-ons and bind-offs essential for a good cowl. Flat cowls, round cowls, mobius cowls…. they’re all covered in Design Your Own Cowl. Click the link to see the preview video!
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p.s. Cowls make great road trip knitting!
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