Brioche stitches circle around to create a squishy cowl with an oversized cabley pattern. Perfect design for a first brioche project, and one that I designed especially for my beginners’ brioche class.

Construction: Cowl is worked in the round from bottom to top. Color A and Color B alternate rounds, with Color A worked with the right side facing out spiraling around clockwise, then Color B worked with the inside out spiraling around counter clockwise.

This is a clever way to make every round a knitwise round, and to eliminate any color jogs at the same time!

STATS:

Size of finished cowl:
10” deep (or desired depth) by about 24” around.

Yarn:
Any worsted weight yarn:
1 skein Color A (foreground color), 1 skein Color B (background color).
Shown in Malabrigo Rios Glitter with Piedras.
Substitute any worsted weight yarn: about 110 yds each foreground and background colors.

Gauge:
16 sts = 4” in brioche stitch using size 8 ndls.

Needles & notions:

Circular needles size US 8 (5 mm); tapestry needle, 3 stitch markers & 4 row markers.

Techniques used:
Brioche stitch, brioche increases and decreases.
All techniques are explained.

Pattern includes:
Written instructions, stitch pattern in both written and charted formats, glossary, links.