First Colorwork Cowl

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First Colorwork Cowl

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Shelter Yarn Worsted Weight

Select a color Camper Homemade Jam Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Tartan Faded Quilt Iceberg Flannel Almanac Old World Plume Blanket Fort Postcard Fossil Woodsmoke Meteorite Truffle Hunt Cast Iron Soot Stormcloud Sweatshirt Pumice Snowbound Newsprint Narwhal Caribou Caraway Amaranth

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$13.75 /Skein

Shelter Yarn Worsted Weight

Select a color Camper Homemade Jam Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Tartan Faded Quilt Iceberg Flannel Almanac Old World Plume Blanket Fort Postcard Fossil Woodsmoke Meteorite Truffle Hunt Cast Iron Soot Stormcloud Sweatshirt Pumice Snowbound Newsprint Narwhal Caribou Caraway Amaranth

Quantity

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$13.75 /Skein

Shelter Yarn Worsted Weight

Select a color Camper Homemade Jam Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Tartan Faded Quilt Iceberg Flannel Almanac Old World Plume Blanket Fort Postcard Fossil Woodsmoke Meteorite Truffle Hunt Cast Iron Soot Stormcloud Sweatshirt Pumice Snowbound Newsprint Narwhal Caribou Caraway Amaranth

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• Product description

  Add colorwork to your knitter's bag of tricks with this friendly, introductory pattern. The First Colorwork Cowl's motifs incorporate easy combinations of both one-color and simple two-color stranded rounds. Colors alternate frequently, meaning catching floats is not necessary! A digital companion pattern provides written instructions alongside 4- and 5-color variations. Worked in worsted-weight yarn, this pattern makes for great colorwork practice and swift gift knitting.

  This pattern is part of our BT by Brooklyn Tweed pattern line and is our gift to you with the purchase of 4 skeins of Shelter — simply add your yarn and pattern to the cart and enter code: first_colorwork_shelter at checkout.

  Designer: Jared Flood

  Collection: BT by Brooklyn Tweed

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  Fresh. Fun. 4 pages.

  BT by Brooklyn Tweed patterns are skill-accessible knitting patterns written in a concise, visually appealing way. Spanning just four pages, each pattern offers an entry point into the larger world of Brooklyn Tweed yarns and patterns. Projects you make from BT by Brooklyn Tweed will be easy to knit and fun to wear! 

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• Pattern materials

  YARN

  Brooklyn Tweed Shelter — 100% American Targhee-Columbia Wool (140 yards/128 meters per 50g skein)

  • 2 skeins of Color 1 (C1); 1 skein of Color 2 (C2); 1 skein of Color 3 (C3)
  • Note: The 4-color and 5-color versions may be worked with 1 skein of each color; when swatching, swap C3 and MC for the 4-color version and swap C4 and MC for the 5-color version.
  • 3-color version photographed in colors Old World (C1), Hayloft (C2) & Fossil (C3)
  • 4-color version photographed in colors Yellowstone (C1), Hayloft (C2), Bale (C3) & Fossil (C4)
  • 5-color version photographed in colors Plume (C1), Flannel (C2), Embers (C3), Bale (C4) & Snowbound (C5). 

  
  

  YARDAGE

  • Approximately 160 yards/147 meters of Color 1 (Dark), 34 yards/31 meters of Color 2 (Medium) and 59 yards/54 meters of Color 3 (Light)

  
  

  Please note: the stitch patterns used for this accessory include written (see Companion PDF) as well as charted instructions.

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • The First Colorwork Cowl is worked in the round from top down. Increase rounds worked over the length of the cowl result in a gently flared shape that sits comfortably on the shoulders when worn.

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 25" (63.5 cm) top circumference; 32" (81.5 cm) bottom circumference; 9½” (24 cm) length

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 20 stitches per 4”/10 cm; 6 rounds per inch in colorwork (exact row gauge is not critical)
  • 5 stitches per inch in colorwork pattern

  
  

  NEEDLES

  One 24”/60 cm circular needle

  • Suggested size: US 8 (5 mm)

  
  

  One smaller 16”/40 cm circular needle

  • 2-3 sizes smaller than main needle for working ribbing
  • Suggested size: US 5 (3.75 mm)

• Techniques

  Tutorials to support the pattern:

  • Colorwork 101
  • Video — Selecting Color For Colorwork
  • Video — Color Dominance 101
  • Reading Charts
  • Wet Blocking

  
  

  Companion PDF included

  
  

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