There is that time of the year that you want to wear your brightest colors but the weather just won’t cooperate.  For these days when the sun is shining but just not quite taking the temperatures where they need to be for the outfit you have in mind, add a warm layer around your neck to compensate for the difference between desired and actual temperatures. This shawl is a quick portable project which can be seamed into a piece of wearable fiber art on the last row or left as a small triangle scarf without a seam, it’s your project, make it your own fashion statement.

Cozy Coastal Cowl is a beginner-friendly crochet pattern that works up quickly in fingering weight yarn, giving you two finished accessories in one: seam the final row and you have a snug cowl; leave it open and wear it as a flowing triangle scarf.

Construction and technique

• Stitch: open granny square stitch, worked flat in rows
• Skill level: beginner
• Craft: crochet, US terminology
• Finishing: one optional seam on the last row closes the triangle into a cowl; skip the seam and wear it open as a triangle scarf
• No shaping rows, no complicated joins

Materials

• Yarn weight: fingering
• Yardage: 390-400 yards (356-366 meters); any fingering weight fiber works
• Hook: US D-3 / 3.25 mm crochet hook
• Gauge: 18 dc 5 ch sts x 12 rows = 4 in (10 cm) in pattern stitch
• Notions: yarn needle for the optional closing seam

Sizing

• One size, adult
• Wear as a snug cowl (seamed) or a draped triangle scarf (unseamed)
• Finished measurement details are included in the pattern notes

What’s included

• Instant download PDF
• Full written instructions in US crochet terminology
• No charts required; all rows written out

Those in-between weather days call for a lightweight neck layer that will not weigh down a bright spring outfit. This is a portable, fast project, a good carry-along for a commute or a quiet evening at home.

Make it in your brightest colorway and wear it as your own wearable fiber art.