Love the stitch pattern in the Forest Fern Shawl? Looking for something to do with the leftovers from an advent kit or with the mini-skeins in your stash?

The sample cowl was made with the leftovers from the Frost Fern shawl (Advent size). The short (long) version of the cowl has 12 stripes of various colours and 1 (6) stripe of the Main colour.

Skills Required:

• Working lace
• Working stripes
• Working with charts and/or written instructions

Finished size (blocked): Short (Long)
15.75 (15.75)” / 40 (40) cm wide by 52 (72)” / 183 cm circumference

Other Tools:

• Stitch markers - 4
• Tapestry needle
• Crochet hook (large size than knitting needle)
• A second US#5/3.75 mm needle for grafting

Yarn: 1,162 (1,512) yards/1,062 (1,383) meters of a fingering weight yarn that knits up to 7-7.5 sts/inch.

MC: 298 (648) yards/272 (593) meters
CC: 864 yards/790 meters, each stripe uses 72 yards/66 meters

Shown in (long version):
Indigodragonfly ‘MerGoat Sock’, (80% wool, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 4.06 oz/115 grams; 400 yards/366 meters per skein).

Main Colour: I Made That Tape Special For Today

Contrasting Colours:
CC1: Daleks Don’t Give Out Pink Slips
CC2: Only, the exact phrase I used was, “Don’t” (Inara-Firefly)
CC3: Tapenodd
CC4: My Name is Indigo Montoya
CC5: Ooo…Shiny…
CC6: Pink Pummeler (Doctor Horrible)
CC7: Is She All Green and Fuzzy and Mossy? (High Fidelity)
CC8: Eek! A.R.O.U.S.
CC9: Patina Fey
CC10: Spock Puppet
CC11: Jaune D’Arc
CC12: I’ll Be in My Bunk (Jayne-Firefly)