The Two-Step Knit cowl is an easy but fun cowl to work up. Alternating stripe patterns keep the pattern from being boring without the attention required for complicated color work.

Let your imagination run wild with color combinations for either two or three colors (or more if you do more repeats!). Use up languishing single skeins from your stash or use this as the perfect excuse to get that squishy new yarn.

The cowl comes in three sizes for three different weights of yarn. Gauge, needle sizes, and yardage requirements for all sizes are listed below. Yards per color are calculated for the two color cowls. Naturally a three or more color cowl will have different yardage requirements. Each additional repeat will require an additional yds per color total split across the colors.

Small--15” (36cm) circumference
Fingering weight yarn
Size 5 (3.75 mm) needle
26 sts x 37 rows
170 yds / 156 m (85 yds / 78 m per color)

DK weight yarn
Size 8 (5.0 mm) needle
20 sts x 24 rows
150 yds / 138 m (75 yds / 69 per color)

Worsted weight yarn
Size 10 (6.0 mm) needle
16 sts x 21 rows
120 yds / 110 m (60 yds / 55 m per color)

Medium--44” (97 cm) circumference
Fingering weight yarn
Size 5 (3.75 mm) needle
26 sts x 37 rows
660 yds / 604 m (330 yds / 302 m per color)

DK weight yarn
Size 8 (5.0 mm) needle
20 sts x 24 rows
580 yds / 530 m (290 yds / 265 m per color)

Worsted weight yarn
Size 10 (6.0 mm) needle
16 sts x 21 rows
450 yds / 412 m (225 yds / 206 m per color)

Large--64” circumference
Fingering weight yarn
Size 5 (3.75 mm) needle
26 sts x 37 rows
1240 yds / 1134 m (620 yds / 567 m per color)

DK weight yarn
Size 8 (5.0 mm) needle
20 sts x 24 rows
1070 yds / 978 m (535 yds / 489 m per color)

Worsted weight yarn
Size 10 (6.0 mm) needle
16 sts x 21 rows
830 yds / 758 m (413 yds / 379 m per color)

A very special thank you to all my testers whose color visions took this cowl beyond what I had originally considered myself. Testers are the heart of new patterns.