This cowl is made using 6 different spiral stitch patterns. Each pattern is worked though the marker meaning when you encounter the marker, just slip it and continue where you left off until the required number of rounds have been worked. It is worked in one piece from the neck down using a combination of stockinette stitch and eyelet stitch. As the eyelet stitch grows, the stockinette stitch shrinks until you are left with only eyelet. The difference in gauge between these 2 stitch patterns creates a natural gentle increase without adding any additional stitches. The border is worked flat, perpendicular to the cowl and is attached one stitch at a time on right side rows when you k2tog tbl. Begin by using either knitted CO or Cable CO to add the required number of border stitches.

I learned to knit from by watching my mother. She was the most talented knitter I have ever known bar none. My hope is to someday be half as talented as she was. She learned to knit as an adult  when I was a teenager. The local Sears store offered classes for “free” if you purchased supplies from their store. She made a block a week learning a different stitch or technique on each block. At the end of the classes she learned how to sew all of those blocks together to make an Afghan. 

I learned along with her, sort of. Her philosophy was to “just do what it says”. Sometimes this was easier said than done. On those occasions she would have me read the pattern to her stitch by stitch while she did the knitting. I learned abbreviations and pattern reading  before I ever held needles in my hands. It was the perfect way for me to learn and it wasn’t long until I was knitting along side her.  

College followed by life as a pastors wife with small children kept me from the craft for many years but when we lost her suddenly to cancer in 1989 I found that returning to knitting was a way to help me through my grief.

 Knitting still keeps me close to her to this day. 

This one’s for you, Mom.

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