{"id":312,"date":"2017-06-22T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:17:38","slug":"quabbin-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Quabbin Cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BowlofCowls.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BowlofCowls.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Are you ready to start your Christmas knitting? Here&#8217;s a quick and simple cowl I designed in two versions. One is totally straight and the other flares out at the base so it will fit into the necklines of your coats and jackets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The yarn I used was Noro&#8217;s Iro, a bulky blend of 75% wool and 25% silk that knitted up at a gauge of 3.5 stitches per inch on size 10 1\/2 circular needles. I needed less than a full 100g skein for either version. You can also use two strands of knitting worsted weight wool. I suggest you use a yarn with decent body as you don&#8217;t want this cowl to be too floppy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Straight version<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Using your 10 1\/2, 24&#8243; circular needle, cast on 64 stitches. Join in the round.<\/p>\n<p>Knit in stockinette (knitting all stitches) for six rows.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nContinue in stockinette for 10 rows.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit in stockinette for another 10 rows.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit in stockinette for six more rows.<br \/>\nBind off.<\/p>\n<p>Both the top and bottom of the cowl will roll, which provides a nice finish.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/StraightQuabbinCowl.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/StraightQuabbinCowl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Flared version<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Cast on 80 stitches and join.<br \/>\nKnit in stockinette (all knit stitches) for six rows.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nNext row: *Knit six stitches, Knit 2 tog, rpt from * until end of row. You will now have 70 stitches on your needle.<br \/>\nKnit six more rows in stockinette.<br \/>\nNext row: *Knit five stitches, Knit 2 tog, rpt from * until end of row. You will now have 60 stitches on your needle.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit in stockinette for 10 rows.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit a row.<br \/>\nPurl a row.<br \/>\nKnit six rows in stockinette.<br \/>\nBind off.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FlaredQuabbinCowl.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-320\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FlaredQuabbinCowl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 37px; left: 50px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 37px; left: 50px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1465px; left: 50px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 37px; left: 50px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to start your Christmas knitting? Here&#8217;s a quick and simple cowl I designed in two versions. One is totally straight and the other flares out at the base so it will fit into the necklines of your coats and jackets. The yarn I used was Noro&#8217;s Iro, a bulky blend of 75% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quabbin Cowl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,6],"tags":[56,52,53,45,57],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting-patterns","category-projects","tag-cowl","tag-knit","tag-knitted","tag-knitting","tag-pattern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}