New Pattern: Gentle Blooms

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Gentle Blooms is perfect for using up those special skeins of yarn. Gentle Blooms is a bandana-style cowlette, which means you get the beauty and fun of a shawl at a small scale but it’s easy to wear and will stay in position.

woman wearing navy, pink and cream bandana cowl with pink stranded roses

The design came about as I had quite a lot of yarn leftover from my Vertices Unite. The yarn was a gorgeous merino and silk blend, and I didn't want to leave it languishing in my stash.

woman holding a large shawl in garter stitch in grey, navy, pink and cream

Maybe you've got some gorgeous yarns in your stash that aren't enough for shawl. The quantities needed are -

MC: Navy - 225m [247yds]

CC1: Cream - 85m [93yds]

CC2: Pink - 97m [107yds]

As usual, I wanted the knitting to be enjoyable, so the vast majority is knit and purl. There is a handful of stranded knitting rows for the "Gentle Blooms". The positioning gives the biggest impact for quite a small section of stranded knitting. Or as they say "the biggest bang for your buck!".


pink stranded knit flowers at the edge of a navy cowl

Since it's all about the details on a project like this, the neckline edge is a double selvedge stitch (it's just slip stitches and knit).

detail of double slipped stitch edge in pink and cream stripes

The first part of the cowl is worked flat and then you move into the round. It's really easy to block too. Just lay it out in the shape below, the fold lines are at the central stitch, so makes it lovely and crisp.

There's an easy knot stitch halfway through for a little palette cleanser and even though the stitch is easy to work, there is a quick video tutorial included (just in case).

Navy, cream and pink triangular cowl laid out flat on a pale blue table


navy, cream and pink bandana cowl on a mannequin

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