A Gorgeous Cowl for Using up Odd Balls

I happened to be on Ravelry the other day and saw the Faded Glass Infinity Cowl was trending. With good reason; it’s gorgeous!

This design, by Sydney Gerzymisch, uses light fingering weight yarn with one main color and as many contrasting colors as you like. They used 14 on the sample, but you can use more or fewer depending on how much yarn you want to use and how long you want your loop to be.

The colors make a bit of a fade, which is explained in the pattern. The colorwork is charted, but it’s pretty easy. Because the project is a tube you don’t have to weave in all your ends (though you might want to anchor the new yarn in a couple of stitches as you go so the stitches around the color changes aren’t too loose.

You could of course knit this in a different yarn weight, too, if you wanted a bigger cowl. Whatever way you work it, this stained glass style pattern is sure to be eye-catching and fun to knit.

You can get the free pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sydney Gerzymisch.]

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Brioche knitting, also sometimes known as English rib, is a popular way to add a lot of texture to knitting projects. It can be a little intimidating when you’ve never done it before, but once you get the technique down it’s lots of fun to do. And it creates the squishiest, warmest fabric, so it’s great for fall and winter accessories like these.

Mirella Moments has a whole collection of English rib knitting patterns, including the hat pictured here, a headband and an infinity scarf.

These would be super as gifts to knit now and have on hand for the holidays. You can knit all three and give them to three different people, or gift them all to one person, or keep them for yourself. No one is judging here.

All of the projects use worsted weight yarn but they come out looking chunky because of the knitting technique, which involves yarn overs that are worked together with the next stitch on the next round so there’s not a visible hole, it just makes the fabric really stretchy.

You can practice working the stitch flat if you like, but it’s not any more difficult to do in the round. If you’ve never done it before you might want to start with the headband pattern here before moving on to a bigger project.

The hat and the headband both come in three sizes for adults (the small would probably work for a teen) and the infinity scarf is one size but you could adjust it to be bigger or smaller if you like.

These projects are so pretty and relatively easy to do, too, even if you’ve never worked brioche before.

You can find all the patterns, complete with photo tutorials, at Mirella Moments: hat | headband | infinity scarf.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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