The Garden Trellis pattern includes instructions for both the short, close to the neck version of the cowl, and the long, double wrap cowl. The colorwork is done with Lily Chin’s Tunisian colorwork technique that uses changing stitches to create the pattern, resulting in no floats or carries on the wrong side of the fabric, making the cowl fully reversible. Color choices for the yarn can create either a high contrast (see short cowl picture) or subtle contrast (see long cowl picture). Both cowls used Noro Silk Garden Sock Solo for the background color and Noro Silk Garden Sock for the contrast color. The short cowl uses about 55g (185yds) of the background color and 24g (80yds) of the contrast color, while the long version uses approximately 120g (400yds) of the background color and 78g (260yds) of the contrast color.
This pattern can be purchased separately or as part of an eBook, Tunisian Crochet COllar-shaWLS.
Cowls, a word created by combining the words collar and shawls, are so much fun to make and a quick project to create something warm and beautiful for those colder months. Covering both make-flat-and-sew and in-the-round construction, this eBook contains ten pages of instructions and photos to show how to work straight Tunisian crochet and Tunisian crochet-in-the-round, including instructions for five basic stitches, starting with a foundation row, and casting-off. Nine cowl patterns are included in this eBook:
Make-Flat-and-Sew Construction In-the-Round Construction
Triumvirate Turbulence
Comber Cowl Scottish Thistle Cowl
Fergus Cowl Garden Trellis
Tunisian Klappschal Junction Mobius Cowl
Blue Light
Each pattern introduces a new technique within Tunisian crochet, including working in three color Tunisian, creating cables, colorwork in-the-round, textured combination stitches, and working from a central foundation row.