The Straight and Narrow Cowl was designed to use up 3 beautiful hand-dyed skeins of fingering yarn without having to mix the skeins. This quick project has you hold six strands of fingering weight together, creating a super bulky yarn that is knit on large needles. This pattern incorporates a provisional cast-on that will NOT be removed, garter stitch, dropping and unraveling stitches, picking up stitches in stockinette, and adding buttons.

Yarn requirements are 1200 yards/1,097 meters of fingering weight yarn, which will be held 6 strands at a time. Bulky yarn requirements are 200 yards/183 meters held single strand. Other supplies include 3 large buttons (1.5in/4cm or bigger), stitch markers (optional), crochet hook for the cast on, and tapestry needle for weaving in ends.

Gauge is 13 stitches to 4in/10cm in garter stitch worked flat on a US11/8.0mm.

“Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way…” Matthew 7:14