Design Your Own Cowl
Keep yourself and loved ones feeling snug and looking stylish in your one-of-a-kind cowls. Use Laura’s templates and techniques to breeze through…
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Keep yourself and loved ones feeling snug and looking stylish in your one-of-a-kind cowls. Use Laura’s templates and techniques to breeze through designing original cowls.
What Is a Cowl?
Meet your instructor, Laura Nelkin, and begin to consider what design elements you want your cowl to have. A design worksheet included with your class materials will help you keep track of your choices and choose the best design template for your pattern.
More Design Decisions
Choosing the right yarn for your project means you get to shop in your stash or try out new fibers! Find joy in your swatching and blocking as you determine just the right stitch patterns and borders for your cowl.
Designing a Round Cowl
Laura includes six different design templates for cowls that are knitted in the round. She walks you through the steps for calculating your cast-on, body stitches and edging for round cowls that are not twisted, using her Red Cowl as an example.
Designing a Mobius Cowl
Twisted, or Möbius, cowls are round cowls that are knitted from the center out. Laura gives an overview of the basic Möbius design calculations, then demonstrates with her Lapso Cowl. You’ll learn how you can move beyond the template boundaries to add your own twists to the base design.
Designing a Flat Cowl
Laura discusses the many ways you can design a flat-knitted cowl using the six provided templates. Even a simple rectangle with buttons can be a stunning accessory when you choose an interesting stitch pattern and add handmade buttons. See how Laura’s Ojo Cowl was calculated by following along on the design template.
Tips & Tricks
Your new favorite stretchy cast-on and bind-off might be the ones you learn in this lesson. Laura also demonstrates the Möbius cast-on and provisional cast-on and shares some cowl-blocking tricks.
Designing Extras
If you plan to start designing cowl patterns to share or sell, you’ll want Laura’s professional tips. These include calculating yarn amounts, getting your pattern written out and charted correctly, and having your pattern edited and photographed. Soon you’ll be crafting patterns designed to delight!
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