Octopus Cowl Kit in Dunlin

Soft, cozy, covered in octopuses: what more could you want in a cowl? Worked in the round using stranded colourwork, the Octopus Cowl lets you show your love for these fascinating creatures while keeping your neck toasty warm. The pattern includes tips for choosing your yarn, plus links to tutorials showing how to trap long floats in stranded colourwork. To make the Octopus Cowl, you will need to know how to do stranded colourwork from charts.

Size:  One Size.  Circumference: 61 cm/24 in; depth: 24 cm/9.5 in

Kit includes: 1 skein of Small Bird Workshop Dunlin, 1 skein of Gathering Yarn Brook Farm Fingering, and the Octopus Cowlpattern. 

• Anemone:MC: Dunlin Plum Tart | CC: BFF 13 Leyburn
• Graceful Gold:MC: Dunlin Butterscotch Pudding | CC: BFF 08 Kettlewell
  
• Seaweed Forest:MC: Dunlin Alfalfa | CC: BFF 01 Airdale
• Tribune Bay: MC: Dunlin Tribune Bay | CC: BFF 02 Bishopdale
• Whitecap:MC: Dunlin Evensong | CC: BFF 03 Coverdale
  
• Pebble Beach:MC: Dunlin Bluestone | CC: BFF 14 Askrigg
• Pacific Giant: MC: Dunlin Kapow | CC: BFF 04 Dentale
• Midnight Sea:MC: Dunlin Plum Tart | CC: BFF 08 Kettlewell
• Lava Rock: MC: Dunlin Barberry | CC: BFF 07 Aysgarth
• Sailor's Delight:MC: Dunlin Rowan Berry | CC: BFF 06 Burnsall

Skills Required: Knit, purl, knitting in the round, stranded knitting, following a chart
Pattern: Included: Octopus Cowl by Elizabeth Elliott
Needles and Notions: Purchased separately.

• 3 mm/US 2.5 16 in/40 cm to 24 in/60 cm circular needle, or size needed for correct gauge
• 2.75 mm/US 2 16 in/40 cm to 24 in/60 cm circular needle, or one size smaller than gauge needle.
• 3 stitch markers
• Tapestry/darning needle
  
• Wool Wash such as Eucalan

Sample photography © Gale Zucker 2024