Layer Me is a recipe for a delicious winter woolly layer cake:
Choose your favourite colour ingredients for flavour, whisk into an airy mix with yarn over, and finish your cosy winter confection with a delicious neutral coloured sponge layer of textural contrast. No icing needed, you’re already sheltered against the frost.

This snuggly cowl is designed for a gradient set of five mini skeins accompanied by a main colour with a pleasantly contrast and is worked from a provisional cast-on in rows. After five striped garter and lace sections the cast-on has to be unravelled and the live stitches are joined with the kitchener stitch. The non working yarn travels invisibly inside the i-cord edge and doesn’t need to be cut.

Skill level intermediate

Circumference: 44”/112cm height: 10”/25cm

Gauge
24 sts and 48 rows = 4”/10 cm square in garter stitch after washing, no blocking needed
Note: gauge can be important for yardage requirements and finished measurements

Materials
Fingering weight yarn in
Main Colour approximately 200 yds/183 m, approx. 50g
Contrast Colour Gradient Set of 5 mini skeins 400 yds/366 m
US size 4/3.5 mm circular needle (or size necessary to achieve gauge), at least 24”/60 cm
Additional circular needle for grafting
Crochet hook US size E (3,5mm)
Tapestry needle

Sample shown in
Main Colour: SnailYarn Merino Single, colourway Steel,
Contrast Colour: SnailYarn Merino Singles Gradient Set, colourway Viridian

Wonderful colour combinations are available from SnailYarn