Seed Stitch Cowl
7:00:00 AM
My recent mini vacation was especially nice because we had no plans. We
had no schedule to keep—no outings, no theme park, nothing. It made it easy to
fit in naps for everyone—including mommy! It also made it easy for this mommy
to find time to make a couple of little projects in the yarn world. My first
project went together so fast I was able to spend the rest of my time working
on another little project (I’ll share that one later). This super fast project
is a knitted cowl in a seed stitch that started with a pattern from Close Knit Portland.
Some of you may be thinking, hey girl, it’s April. Do you really need a
cowl? It’s been a warm winter after all, and maybe you should have put this
project off until maybe October. But I’ve been looking at the weather, and
Wednesday and Thursday night it is supposed to be down in the 30’s!! It makes
me glad that I took a few hours to make this cowl. This project literally took
4 hours to knit. Promise! So if you have some chunky yarn in your stash, and
you’re looking at a little cold snap like I am, maybe you’d like to grab some
large needles and get to work on this project tonight! Your neck will thank
you.
I promise this pattern is super easy. Do you know how to knit in the
round? Can you knit and purl? Then you can do this project. The chunky yarn
means that it doesn’t take long at all. Like, I said, I literally knitted this
project in about 4 hours. The yarn I used was this one:
The folks at Close Knit Portland recommend Brown Sheep Burly Spun or Cascade
Magnum. My thought is that you can pick your favorite chunky or super chunky
yarn.
So, here’s my interpretation of the pattern: Cast on 65 stitches onto
size 17 circular needles. When you join in the round—twist once. You know, it’s
that twist that you work so hard to avoid normally when you knit in the round.
You can actually knit this twisted or untwisted, but I took Close Knit’s advice
and went with the twisted version. This is the pattern: knit 1, purl 1. Repeat.
If you counted right, when you come around to the beginning on the next row you
will knit your purls and purl your knits of the row before, creating the seed
stitch. Do this for the entire skein. The pattern calls for 10 inches. I didn’t
follow the pattern there; I think I ended up with about 8 inches. It’s big
enough for me. Cast off. They didn’t specify in the pattern so I cast off in
pattern—knit cast off where there was a purl in the row before, and vice versa.
That’s it. Promise. Thanks to Close Knit Portland for an awesome pattern—I only tweaked it
slightly!
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