Chunky Cowls

I'm trying to keep the rain at bay with winter knits, I thought I might have succeeded given yesterdayss sunshine ☀ but unfortunately I don't think it has been enough, today has been a wash out!

A couple of years ago my mum & dad bought me some wool as a Christmas present, but come Christmas day it never materialised because they lost it!  It became a bit of a running joke ("I can't believe you lost my wool!!") & we decided that they must have accidentally binned it.  Can you imagine!?

I'd even forgotten what it looked like, so when it eventually turned up I was surprised to say the least!

I had a look through Ravelry and found a pattern for a chunky cowl, which you can find here for free.

I think this knitted up in only a few days, which is the brilliant thing about chunky yarn & 10mm needles.

I really like the uneven rib stitch and it's so easy to do, k1 *p2, k2* and that's it for every row ♥

The one thing which was not easy was grafting it together using kitchener stitch.  Now the fact that I've never done this probably didn't help, but doing it on an uneven rib made it even worse.  I thought it might be a 10 minute job and it took me a whole evening.  I wouldn't have been happy with it any other way though.

And so we have it, ta dahhh

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