Gradually Cowl

Tutorials

Yarn

Artfil Colour Bundle x 1
Or 20g of ea of 6 colors (A through F), fingering weight.

Content: 80% Merino Superwash Wool / 20% Nylon
Length/Weight: 444 yds / t(406 m) 120 g (4.23 oz.)
Weight: Fingering (Sock)
Color bundle is a braid of 6 corresponding or gradient colors of ARTFIL’s super-soft fingering yarn tied together. Each color is approx. 20g. for a total of 444 yds per braid! To achieve a true gradient look work simultaneously the required skeins.

Hook

Size F/3.75mm crochet hook

Notions

Yarn needle, stitch markers.

Size

One size: 18’’(45cm) around x 12’’ (30cm) high

Gauge

Ribbing: 6 sts = 1’’ (2.5cm) x 12 rows = 2’’ (5cm)

Star stitch: 6 stars = 2’’ (5cm)

Abbreviations

Please see our standard abbreviations.

Notes

Each color is worked 2 ways: perpendicular to established base for ribbing, and then in rounds, as per usual, for the stars.
Option for open cowl (bottom 4’’ (10cm))

Cowl

With A, ch 101, sl st to 1^st ch to form ring.

Rnd 1 (RS): Ch 1, sc in ea st around, sl st to 1^st sc to close round; 101 sts.

Now perpendicularly

Row 2: Ch 7, sc in 2^nd ch from hook and in ea ch across, sl st at base of ch sts, sl st into next sc. Turn; 6 sc.

Row 3: (Do not ch 1), sc blo in next 5 sts, sc in last. Turn.

Row 4: Ch 1, sc in 1^st sc, sc blo in next 5 sts, sl st in next 2 unworked sts (these 2 sts will be sc sts in the perpendicular part). Turn.

Rows 5-101: Repeat rows 3-4, repeat row 3 once more. Remove yarn from hook. With yarn needle, sew row 2 to row 101. Finish off.

Back to rounds

Rnd 102 (WS): Rejoin at row 2. Ch 1, sc in ea row end around, sl st to 1^st sc to close round. Turn. (101 sts)

Rnds 103-104: Star stitch rounds 1-2 (50 stars after rnd 1, 101 hdc after rnd 2)

Star stitch, rnd 1 (RS):

1st star: Ch 3, pick up a loop in 2nd ch from hook, pick up a loop in 3rd ch from hook, pick up a loop in base of ch 3, pick up a loop in next 2 sts, yo and pull through all 6 loops on hook, ch 1 (eye created).

Subsequent stars: (Pick up a loop in the eye of the previous star, pick up a loop through the last spike of the previous star, pick up a loop at the base of the previous star, pick up a loop in next 2 sts, yo and pull through all 6 loops on hook, ch 1) around. Sl st to top of star to close round. Turn.

Star stitch, rnd 2 (WS):

Ch 2 (replace 1st hdc), 2 hdc in ea eye around, sl st to 1st hdc to close round. Turn.

While working last stitch, change to B.

Repeat rounds & rows 1-104 with B.

Repeat for colors C, D, E*, F*.

Last row: Ch 1, sc in ea hdc around, sl st to 1^st sc. Finish off.

*OPTION for open cowl

If you would like your cowl to be open, work colors E & F flat, as follows:

Row 1 (RS): as Round 1, above, but do not join. (101 sts)

Rows 2-101: as above, but do not sew row 2 to row 101; instead, finish off.

Row 102 (WS): with wrong side facing, rejoin yarn. As round 102, but do not join; instead, finish off.

Rows 103-104: with right side facing, rejoin yarn. Star stitch rows 1-2.

Star stitch, row 1:

Star stitch row 2:

Ch 2, 2 hdc in ea eye around. Turn.

Finishing, open cowl only

With right side facing, join yarn at top of opening. Matching color to the color you are working into, sc in ea row end of st around opening. Finish off.

Finishing, both options

Weave all ends in. Block lightly.

About the Designer: Julie DesJardins / ACCROchet

In French, “accro” means addict. ACCROchet is a play on words that goes a long way to explaining the person behind the brand: a 40 year old French-Canadian woman named Julie, who is, of course, a crochet addict.

By day, Julie is a Marketing and Communications professional in an out-of-home advertising firm – a job she loves; but her passion comes out after the 9 to 5, when she can finally sit down and create pretty things with yarn and a hook.

Julie’s family holds many people together: a man, two teenagers, a big dog and a small dog, and a very fat cat. They all live in a pretty blue house on the North shore of Montreal, in the province of Québec.

Julie keeps all of these lovely people and pets far, far away from her yarn and hooks, except for the female teenager who will periodically join her in the madness of a few stitches, or sometimes even an entire finished project.

Visit Julie’s website or Facebook group.