Octopus Cowl

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.

Yarn: A springy, fingering weight yarn that gives a cohesive (but not stiff) fabric at the pattern’s gauge and that is comfortable against your neck. You will need approximately 250 yds/230 m of MC and 135 yds/125 m of CC.