Striped Cotton Cowl by Purl Soho

Striped Cotton Cowl

Knitting
April 2011
Olympus Sashiko Thread
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
17 stitches = 4 inches
in garter stitch, holding a strand of Main Yarn and Sashiko Thread together
US 10 - 6.0 mm
One Size
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MATERIALS

  • Main Yarn: 3 skeins of Blue Sky’s Worsted Cotton, 100% Cotton. This color is Drift. Approximately 450 yards required.
  • Olympus’s Sashiko Thread, 40 meters, 100% Cotton. I used 3 skeins of Off White; 2 skeins of each of the following colors: Carrot Orange, Yellow, Gold and Aqua; and 1 skein of Red and of Navy. (If you’d like to design your own stripes, it will be helpful to know that the whole cowl uses 400 yards of yarn and each skein of Sashiko Thread is 44 yards, so at minimum you’ll need 9 or 10 skeins.)

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GAUGE
17 stitches = 4 inches in garter stitch, holding a strand of Main Yarn and Sashiko Thread together

SIZE
Finished Dimensions: 60 inches around and 8½ inches wide