The fantastical rippled undersides of mammatus clouds usually mean dramatic weather is about to happen. You’ll use two yarn weights and tuck stitches (brioche) to create a cowl with a dramatic texture. The thinner yarn is slipped for 3 rounds and then used to anchor the puffy sections. It’s easy and fun, and you only work with one yarn per row.

The Mammatus Cowl was part of the 2018 Manitoba Fibre Festival Challenge Collection.

Skills Used
•knit and purl
•knitting in the round
•tuck stitches: slipping sts and yo
•k2tog
•kfb

Size
Circumference: 33” / 84cm
Height: 7.5” / 18cm

Approximate yardage
with a 10% buffer
C1: 105 yds. / 96m
C2: 109 yds. / 100m

Yarn shown
Colour 1: 1 skein Altostratus DK, Cloud 9 Fiberworks, 246yd. / 225m 100g skein); colour shown: Winter is Coming

Colour 2: 1 skein Mammatus, Cloud 9 Fiberworks (109 yd. / 100m per 3.53 oz. / 100g skein), bulky; colour shown: Prairie Winter

Pattern has been test knit and tech edited.