A Knitting Quest Into Cowls – Part 3

You spend all that time knitting a lace cowl. You picked the perfect yarn. Now you’re anticipating the oohs and ahhs you’ll get cause that lace is stunning! You put it on and then. . . Oh No!

Try as you may, the lace just hides in between the folds of fabric. It lays there like a messy pile around your neck. It’s happened to me too and I was told “that’s just the way it is.” But it doesn’t have to be.

Join me on Part 3 of our knitting quest to make the perfect cowl for lace. The Avery Shores Cowl is my third cowl design that solves the visibility problem. It puts you and your lace back in the spotlight where you both belong. If you missed it, you can read how this all began here.

Avery Shores Cowl is named after one of the places that makes me feel calm and peaceful. I love to visit the shoreline of the Avery Point campus of UCONN. Its steep rocky shore is beautiful. The sound of the swirling water against the boulders and rocks is so healing for me. Avery Shores is not an actual place name, but one I created for this design.

Avery Shores Cowl begins like a shawl with a familiar garter tab cast-on. You’ll be knitting every stitch into an easy and fun garter stitch stripe pattern. Once we get the rows done, we’re going to join it in the round and continue working a few more rounds of garter stripes.

Now it’s time to introduce the star of the show – swirling watery lace. To make this lace easier, I took out all the increases in that section! You can just concentrate on the intuitive ten stitch repeat without disturbing your rhythmic knitting.

This bandana style cowl looks more like a shawl but it’s so much easier to wear. It won’t come off until you take it off and looks fabulous on you all day.

You can use one, two, or three colors of yarn to make yours. Although the pattern is written for two colors, modifications were added to help you make it in three colors. Honestly you could go stripe crazy with your scrap yarn and use as many colors as you want. Lets begin our journey and make a beautiful cowl together.

Is the Avery Shores Cowl right for you? You can find out by reading this blog post I wrote.

Are you are thinking yes, this is the cowl for me? You can get the Avery Shores Cowl on Ravelry or Payhip.

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Have you had problems wearing cowls? I’d love to hear all about it. Please tell me your cowl story in a comment below.