Meander Cowl | PDXKnitterati

Pattern launch! Introducing the Meander Cowl. Read down for Ravelry coupon code…

In between banging out a sweater and pillow and poncho, I’ve also been blocking and finishing Meander Cowls. Remember this from last month?

I also knit a fingering weight version of it, this time in Delicious Yarns Sweets Fingering, Green Tea colorway.

It’s even airier than its sport weight cousin. I love them both.

These elegant infinity cowls are knit flat with one 100 gram skein of fingering or sport weight yarn, then seamed to form a loop which can be worn single or doubled. The lace and cable pattern meanders back and forth along the length of the cowl, creating zigzag edges.

The Meander Cowl pattern is available for $6 as a pdf download through Ravelry. Meander Cowl link here. To celebrate its release, I’m offering 20% off with coupon code MEANDER through February 22, 2016. I hope you knit one! It’s light and airy and perfect for winter or spring.

Sweets Fingering and Two Sweets Sport from Delicious Yarns feature a pop of color that wanders across the lace and cables. Blocking brings out the best in the airy zigzag lace. This cowl would also be gorgeous in a semi-solid color. Each skein of Delicious Yarns is dyed by hand, and is unique. My original cowl is on the bottom of the picture below, and my test knitter’s cowl is on the top. So very different, but both are gorgeous.

Here’s the Green Tea, before winding. So pretty!

It’s starting to feel like spring here. Yesterday I was banging out a sleeve in my back yard! I wore the green Meander, and it was perfect. No coat. Odd for February, but the sunshine was a pleasant surprise. How’s your weather?

I just finished this cowl and I don’t want to take it off, ever. It’s delicious!

I’ve named it Meander, because the zigazagging lace and cables do a nice walkabout, and the accent color meanders through the whole thing even more. The lace makes it airy enough that it’s not too warm, and it looks pretty, too.

I knit this with a new to me yarn from Delicious Yarns. The premise is pretty fun: Lots of fiber, no calories, delicious! This is the sport weight version of Two Sweets (2 color accents); the colorway is Chocolate Mix 3. I wish I had thought to take a picture of it before winding, but I wound it before going to Hawaii as “just in case” knitting. I didn’t know what it wanted to be yet, and didn’t get to it until this week.

Here’s a skein of of their fingering weight yarn in Sprinkles (Superwash Merino with little pops of color on a natural background). I bought it to coordinate with the sport weight, thinking that my yarn at home was fingering, but it’s not. So I’ll either return it or save it for another day. The sport weight has spoken, and spoken well indeed. This is a loop cowl, 52 inches long, blocked. Pattern coming soon; it’s at the tech editor now. It would be nice in a semisolid color, too, but the meandering of the accent color adds a bit of fun.