Desert Mallow by Grace Akhrem

Craft: Knitting

This pattern is available on Ravelry.  

Two seemingly unrelated colors dance together happily in this funnel-shaped gradient cowl. An easy slip-stitch pattern draws the eye upward through the color shift.

Finished Size

39½” lower edge circumference, 27” upper edge circumference, 13” high, relaxed after blocking

Yarn

Manos del Uruguay MARINA (100% superwash merino; approx. 874 yds/100 g): 1 sk each of A and B.

Shown in N0053 Filigree (A) and N6447 Rosa (B)

Needles & Notions

US 8/5mm 24” circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge

One US 8/5mm double-pointed needle

Stitch marker

Tapestry needle

Gauge

20 sts and 34 rows/rnds = 4”/10cm in Garter Slipstitch pattern with 3 strands of yarn held together, relaxed after blocking.

Notes

This project is worked with three strands of yarn held together throughout.

The cowl begins by working back and forth in rows, then the piece is joined for working in the round at the top of the lower edge slit, and it continues in the round to the end.