Button Cowl Knitting Pattern
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About the Pattern
Available Sizes: One
Pattern Format: Written Pattern, No Chart
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner
PDF Format: Printer Friendly
Bonus: Video, Checklist
Pattern Name: Friendship
Techniques
Here are some of the knitting skills you need to know before getting started:
Knit Flat (Back & Forth)
Knit & Purl Stitches
Cable Stitch
Yarn & Substitutions
Yarn Weight: Super Bulky
Yardage: 125 – 130 yards (114 – 119 meters)
Suggested Yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick
Needles & Notions
Needle Size: US 13 (9mm) Knitting Needles
Extras: Cable Needle, 3 Buttons
Gauge
11 STS & 13 rows per 4″ (10cm) square, knit in the pattern below
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Details
Measurements, before seaming: 26″ wide x 10″ height (66cm x 25cm)
Gauge: 11 STS & 13 rows per 4″ (10cm) square, knit in the pattern below
Weight, without buttons: 7.3oz (207g)
Notes
Not reversible.
CO edge is the height.
Knit using the cable knit stitch.
This cowl is knit flat, when you’re finished knitting you’ll sew the CO & BO edges together making it a cowl.
Video
Knitting Abbreviations
*– * – repeat between * to end of round
BO – bind-off
C6F – cable6front (Transfer 3 stitches to a cable needle and hold it in the front of your work, knit the next 3 stitches and then knit the 3 stitches off the cable needle)
CO – cast-on (long-tail cast-on method)
INC1 – make 1 stitch (I used a backwards loop)
K – knit stitches (K1 means to knit 1 stitch)
P – purl stitches (P2 means to purl 2 stitches)
RS – right side
STS – stitches
WS – wrong side
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Pattern Instructions
CO 30 STS
Row 1, 3, 5, 7 (WS): *P2, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P2*
Row 2, 4, 6 (RS): *P4, K6, P2, K6, P2, K6, P4*
Row 8 (RS): *P4, C6F, P2, C6F, P2, C6F, P4*
Repeat rows 1-8, 9 more times
Row 81 (WS): *P2, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P2*
Row 82 (RS): *P4, K6, P2, K6, P2, K6, P4*
Row 83 (WS): *P2, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P2*
Make button holes, if desired, if not repeat EVEN and ODD rows above:
Row 84 (RS): P4, *K2, BO3, K1, P2* P4
Row 85 (WS): P2, *K2, P2, INC3, P1* K2, P2
Row 86 (RS): *P4, K6, P2, K6, P2, K6, P4*
Row 87 (WS): *P2, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P6, K2, P2*
Row 88 (RS): BO in pattern
Reinforce buttonholes, if desired.
Weave in the ends
Block, if desired.
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