Hearten Cowl

To hearten is to encourage. To give heart. It’s an especially beautiful kind of love, focused on bringing comfort and joy wherever they are most needed. It’s what the holiday season is all about. Heartfelt presents and wholesome home cooking. Thoughtful acts of charity and random acts of kindness. Often, it’s something we do for others, but it’s also a gift we can give ourselves. The rousing pep talk addressed to the mirror before you face the day. The hearty bowl of stew you sit down to after coming in from the cold. The quiet, blissful moments of making that you allow yourself, even when the list of holiday chores seems impossibly long.

The Hearten Cowl is a joyful project, full of colour, courage, and love. Designed specifically to be knit with a yarn advent calendar or cherished fingering-weight scraps from your stash, it features playful stripes and chevrons with a touch of easy lace. This is a big, generous hug of a cowl, big enough to wrap around twice, for extra warmth and luxury. It’s a project you can savour, knitting it slowly row by row, watching the colours shift and change.

SIZE

One size

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Approximately:

Circumference 127cm (50”)

Width 41cm (16”)

YARN

Meadow Yarn miniPightle [100% wool - superwash merino; 80m/87yds per 20g mini skein], 24 x 20g mini skeins

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Sample used approximately

10g (40m/44yds) of 24 colours of fingering weight yarn or a total of 960m/1056yds.

NEEDLES

3.5mm (US 4), 100cm (40”) long circular needles (or size to obtain gauge)

NOTIONS

Tapestry needle

1 Stitch Marker

GAUGE

24 sts/36 rows = 10cm (4”) in stockinette stitch after blocking