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.
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.
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!”.
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).
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.
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