This pattern is currently available to Winter Club members only, it will be publicly available from August 2025.

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A close fitting cowl, generous in length and worked in stranded colour work, provides significant protection from the cold and wind on winter days. This project is ideal for those new to colour work wanting to explore a range of colour work techniques.

Materials

For a result similar to the model, choose five colour of Vintage Purls Tannahill yarn.
I recommend:

• One dark shade. Colour A. Requires 40g. All your other colours should contrast well against this.
• Two shades of a colour (e.g. two blues, one darker than the other). Colours B & C. Requires 15g of each.
• One pale colour. Colour D. Requires 20g.
• One bright “pop” colour. Colour E. Requires 10g.

Tannahill is a pure merino, woollen spun yarn. It is 4ply/fingering weight (100g/396m).

• 3.50mm needles or size that gives you gauge. I used both a 40cm long circular needle throughout.
• 5.00mm needle (or needle tip). This is for the cast off only. Close enough is good enough, pick a needle 3 - 5 sizes larger than your main needle to ensure your cast off is not too tight.
• A stitch marker.

Gauge

27 stitches and 30 rows in 10cm in blocked stranded colour work.

Size

54cm circumference. Modification advice is included in the pattern.

Inspiration

• The inspiration for this design is the work “Winter” by Michalina Janoszanka (The National Museum in Krakow MNK IV-Mal-325).

• The bird motif in chart C is a slight adaption of the bird in plate 22 of: D.M.C. Point de Croix Nouveaux Dessins (1re Série). Dillmont, Th. de, ed., France Mulhouse, Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, c.1905.