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Mulben
Easy colourwork cowl
£6.00
- 4ply / Fingering weight yarn
- Also available on Ravelry
The Mulben cowl, is a perfect pattern to progress your stranded colourwork technique. Ideal as a gift to yourself or a friend, keep your neck toasty and never worry about losing your scarf again!
Mulben is designed to give you lots of practice with stranded colourwork on a project where your tension doesn't need to be perfectly even and gauge isn't critical. The overall effect is complex, but stitch patterns are only 4 stitches wide throughout, with no long floats to worry about (we've charted 4 repeats so you can more easily see how the pattern repeats work together).
Details
The cowl is a simple tube, tapered slightly so that it flares around the shoulders and hugs the neck. This shaping is achieved by simply changing to a smaller needle size; there’s no increasing or decreasing to worry about combining with the colourwork. A cowl is also the ideal circumference to practice your stranded colourwork tension on: working on one circular needle means there are no “ladders” to worry about at the gaps between needles, and the rounds are long enough to find rhythm and a more relaxed style.
Skills for knitting this project
Build your skills by following the links to our clear step-by-step tutorials.
- knitting, purling
- casting on
- binding off
- colourwork (using a chart)
- working in the round
Sizing
One size available.
Length: 15 1/2” / 40cm,
bottom circumference: 28” / 70cm,
top circumference: 26” / 65cm
Stranded Colourwork Basics course
Learn more
Learn all of the skills you need to make Mulben with our beginner colourwork course. The Stranded Colourwork Basics course is a 4 week self-guided online knitting course, with continued access to the course so that you can return to each chapter for a refresher, again and again, whenever you need.
Supplies
Yarn
Heavy fingering / sport weight wool yarn.
Shown in Rauma Finull PT2 (100% Norwegian wool, 191 yds / 175m, 1.76oz / 50g).
3 colour version
Main colour approx: 285 yds / 260m.
Contrast colours approx: 100 yds / 90m each.
8 colour version
Total yarn: 450 yds / 410m.
Main colour approx: 135 yds / 125m.
Contrast colours approx: 20–80 yds / 20–75m each.
The total yarn needed for the contrast colours on the 8 colour version are approximate and will vary depending on how you decide to arrange your colours.
Needles and notions
The needle size that works best for your yarn will depend on your individual tension. The recommended needle size for the yarn is a good starting point.
Version information
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