Sometimes you need something cosy, something not too complicated and something that will work with whatever you happen to have in your stash.

I found myself in somewhat of a knitting crisis recently. A sudden urge to knit a worsted weight, cosy cowl in a textured stitch that I had been playing with. The only problem was that my husband was occupying the spare room (now office) where my stash was housed.

He was on a marathon length Zoom call with colleagues and I was desperate.

But I did have two skeins of Eden Cottage Yarns Pendle 4ply to hand in my emergency stash. So I decided to wind them and hold the yarn double to achieve the required worsted weight type squishiness. Success!

1 skein of yarn held double is enough for a single loop cowl, 2 skeins held double will give a more generous double loop version.

And in case you fancier a lighter weight version I have also given the numbers for a version with the yarn held singly, in which case half a skein would be sufficient for a single loop cowl, or a full skein for a double loop.

Both versions are included within the pattern.

The cowl is knit flat and seamed or grafted at the end.