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Sea Glass Cowl is a playful way to use the yarn you already love. This flexible pattern is designed to work across five different gauges, so you can mix yarns, fibers, and weights straight from your stash.

Use DK for a steady main color with fingering held double for contrast, or combine fingering scraps, minis, and leftovers for a fully scrappy look. Every palette blends a little differently, creating a marled fabric full of color and texture that ends up completely your own.

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Design Details

The fabric is worked in 1x1 colorwork, alternating colors every stitch. Instead of long floats, each color appears in small, shifting flecks that blend together as you knit.

Because you change one or both colors regularly, even very small yardages can be used. Minis, leftovers, advent sets, and partial skeins all work naturally within the pattern, and the surface of the fabric softens the transitions between them.

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Pattern Highlights

• Works across five gauges
• Ideal for leftovers, minis, and handspun fibers
• Seamless finish
• Endless color palette options
• A great introduction to colorwork

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Construction Overview

Sea Glass Cowl is knit in the round beginning with a provisional cast on. The body is worked continuously in 1x1 colorwork.

When the knitting is complete, the live stitches are joined using Kitchener stitch to create a seamless loop. Our finishing method lets you tuck yarn tails into the fabric as you knit so the inside stays as clean as the outside.

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Yarn Notes

Our sample uses one skein of Sugarplum Circus Charlotte DK in Desert Rose for the main color, paired with assorted stash yarns for contrast colors.

The pattern works especially well when one color stays consistent and the second color changes frequently, but fully scrappy versions work beautifully too. The colorwork texture blends speckles, handspun, tonals, and solids together naturally.

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Needles & Gauge

US 7 (4.50 mm) circular or DPNs, or size needed to obtain one of the listed gauges.

Sample gauge:
20 sts x 24 rows = 4” (blocked colorwork in the round)

Additional stitch count options included:
22 sts, 24 sts, 26 sts, 28 sts = 4”

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Yarn Requirements (Approximate)

Varies by gauge and yarn choice:

Main Color: approximately 90 g
Contrast Colors: approximately 90 g total

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Finished Measurements

Width: 20” / 51 cm
Length: 28” / 72 cm

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Let’s Knit Together

Sea Glass Cowl includes step by step video tutorials for color selection, managing yarn ends, joining rounds, and finishing techniques. Our Discord community is always open if you’d like help choosing colors or want to share your project.

Join us here: https://discord.gg/zNq6Y3cF

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