Temperance Cowl by Simone Kereit

Temperance Cowl

Knitting
September 2017
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch/texture pattern
US 5 - 3.75 mm
140 - 150 yards (128 - 137 m)
20 (24)” / 51 (61) cm circumference 6” / 15 cm high
English
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This cowl (which matches the Temperance Hat and if you put both in your cart now, you save $3!) with jewel tone accents uses a mixture of simple slip stitches and soothing garter stitch.
Inspired by the duality as well as connection between seemingly opposites, the patterns reflect earthbound trees and airborne birds, as symbols for all the myriads of things, separate, but undefined or insignificant without the other.

The Maiden and The Crone, The Queen and the Warrior, Earth and Sky, trees and birds in flight, passive and active, young and wise; bound to the other by their mirror reflection of their opposite.

Yarn
Dragonfly Fibers Traveller (100% Supewash Merino;
280 yards / 256 m per 4 oz / 114g skein)
1 skein in Silver Fox (mc)
and
set of 4 1oz skeins in
The Maiden (cc1), The Warrior (cc2), The Crone ( cc3)
and The Queen (cc4)
or
DK weight yarn, about 115 yds / 105 m of mc and 15 yds / 14 m each of cc1, cc2 and cc3 and about 20 yds / 18 m of cc4

You will be able to make both the hat and the cowl from one skein mc and one 4pc set of 1oz skeins

Needles
US 5 (3.75 mm) 16 (24)”/ 40 (60) cm or circular
needle
or needle size to obtain gauge

Gauge
22 st and 32 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette st

Finished Size
20 (24)” / 51 (61) cm circumference
6” / 15 cm high

Notions
Tapestry Needle