The Northern Wonders Cowl is the pattern that was included in Les Garçons’ 2024 Holiday Mystery Box. It is a double-wrap cowl featuring an all-over, yet simple and easy stranded colourwork motif. The pattern was designed to use 8 mini-skeins of different colours, but can also be made using fewer or more colours.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Width: 10¼” / 25.5 cm
Circumference: 60” / 150 cm

YARN
Weight: Fingering
❖ Colour A (dark): 400 yd / 365 m,
or 1 skein of BFL Sock from Les Garçons
❖ Colour B (light): 400 yd / 365 m,
or 1 skein of BFL Sock from Les Garçons
❖ Colours C to J: 80 yd / 73 m each,
or 8 mini-skeins of BFL Sock from Les Garçons

Sample shown in BFL Sock from Les Garçons (80% Bluefaced Leicester Wool, 20% Nylon, superwash; 400 yd / 365 m per 100 g skein) in the “Northern Wonders” (Colour A), “Polar Drift” (Colour B), “Boreal Night” (Colour C), “Frostbite” (Colour D), “Theo’s Beanie” (Colour E), “Cozy Cottage” (Colour F), “Crimson Plaid” (Colour G), “Fairy Lights” (Colour H), “Amber Moonlight” (Colour I) and “Snowbound Lavender” (Colour J) colourways.

NEEDLES
❖ Circular needles, 16” / 40 cm in length, US 4 / 3.5 mm, or size needed to obtain gauge

You will need a second set of similiar needles for grafting.

GAUGE
❖ 26 stitches and 32 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Stockinette stitch in the round, Blocked

NOTIONS
❖ Stitch marker (1), Waste yarn (for provisional cast-on), tapestry needle

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