The Martallen cowl is a neat and soft everyday piece for when you just need a bit of warmth around your neck. It begins with a provisional cast-on and is knitted in one long tube piece with a colourwork pattern broken off with purl ridges. Once the desired length is done, the cowl is twisted and the ends are grafted together using Kitchener stitch. The colourwork is both charted and written out and the size of the cowl is easily adjusted by working more or fewer repeats. Keep in mind that yardage requirements change when altering the size.

Sizes: Onesize
Yarn: Sägen Devonia DK, 50% Exmoor Blueface, 30% West Country Bluefaced Leicester, 20% West Country Lustre Breeds, 233 m / 254 yds on 100 g
Sample shown in colourways Martallen as MC and Selkie and Svartgölen as CC.
Yardage: 200 m / 218 yds of MC, 80 m / 87 yds of CC1 and 60 m / 65 yds of CC2
Gauge: 25 sts x 27 rnds on 10 cm / 4” in colourwork after blocking
Needles: 4 mm / US 6 100 cm / 40” circular needle for magic loop. One spare needle of the same size or one size smaller for grafting the ends together.