SKILL LEVEL: ADVANCED BEGINNER
Materials
- Approximately 100 yards of Color Made Easy from Lion Brand Yarn or the Weight 5 yarn of your choice
- 6.5mm Crochet Hook
- 4 Medium sized buttons
- Sewing Needle
- Thread
Notes
- I used Color Made Easy from Lion Brand Yarns to write this pattern but any weight 5 yarn will work
- Beginning chains do not count as a stitch
Abbreviations (US Terms)
Most stitches in this pattern are worked in the back loop only, if you are unfamiliar with this technique, a video tutorial can be found here: https://youtu.be/VdOgClt8rj4
- ch – Chain
- sc – Single Crochet
- scblo – Single Crochet In Back Loop Only
- scblo2tog or scblo3tog – Crochet in Back Loop Only 2 or 3 Together
- hdc – Half Double Crochet
- hdcblo – Half Double Crochet in Back Loop Only
- dc – Double Crochet
Sizing
This cowl has buttons sewn on the tapered end which are fastened along Row 4, the buttons can be placed in any space along that row to give you a smaller or larger cowl. If you’d still like to make adjustments to the size you can add or remove rows between Rows 30 and 63.
Pattern
Ch 25
ROW 1
- hdc in second ch from hook and each across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 2
- hdcblo in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 3
- sc in each stitch across
- Ch 2, turn.
ROW 4
- Skip the first stitch, dc in second stitch, dc in skipped stitch
- *skip next stitch, dc in next stitch, dc in skipped stitch*
- Repeat from * to * across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 5
- sc in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 6 – 13
- hdcblo in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn
ROW 14
- scblo2tog in first two stitches
- scblo in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 15
- scblo in each stitch across until 2 stitches remain
- scblo2tog in last two stitches
- Ch 1, turn
ROW 16 – 29
Repeat Rows 14 and 15.
ROW 30 – 63
- scblo in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 64
- scblo2tog in the first 2 stitches
- scblo in the next 4 stitches
- scblo2tog in the last 2 stitches
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 65
- scblo in the first two stitches
- scblo2tog in the next 2 stitches
- scblo in the last 2 stitches
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 66 – 79
- scblo in each stitch across
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 80
- scblo2tog in the first 2 stitches
- scblo in the next stitch
- scblo2tog in the last 2 stitches
- Ch 1, turn.
ROW 81
- Scblo3tog in all 3 stitches of the row
Fasten off, weave in all those ends.
Finishing
Sew buttons evenly spaced on narrow tail of cowl, I used 4 buttons but you can use more or less depending on the size and look you’re going for.
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