Last year I took a colorwork knitting class with Canadian designer Sylvia Olsen, author of Knitting Stories: Personal Essays and Sevenv Coast Salish-inspired Knitting Patterns and Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater. I learned that this style of knitting is the only 100% North American knitting tradition. I designed this cowl because I had so much fun in the class, I wanted to keep knitting more Coast Salish-inspired patterns.

This design is dedicated to Sylvia and to all of the Coast-Salish knitters who have knit in this style and who have designed and knit the famous Cowichan