A cosy Winter cowl

I kind of made the decision a month ago that I was not going to make any Christmas presents - but it must be some kind of disease as no matter how I try not to: I always end up doing something! I produced the Christmas deco's but having visited the Knitting and Stitching Show @ Harrogate - which I thought was pretty fab this year - I came back desperate to knit something in gorgeous Alpaca and I just had to feed my addiction!
So, no time to develop something new, no time to do crochet - but enough time to modify a pattern, use big needles, thick yarn and hey presto a pressie for Christmas produced in 2 evenings!  Instant gratification!!!!

Materials:

Rowan Alpaca Chunky - 100gm balls x 2 for the cowl, if you add the cuff you will need a 3rd ball.

10 mm circular needle - 80cm long

8mm needles - for the cuff

3 matching buttons

Cast on 140sts using the 10mm circular needle.

Working in the round, Knit 2 rounds

Purl 4 rounds

Knit 4 rounds - repeat last 8 rounds once more 

Purl 4 rounds

Knit 2 rounds

Cast off.

Tidy up ends.

So you now have the cowl:

To add the 'cuff' - 

Using 8mm needles cast on 44 sts.

Knit 1 row,

Purl 1 row,

*Purl 1 row,

Knit to last 6sts, cast off 2 sts, knit 4sts

Purl 4, cast on 2, Purl to end

Knit 1 row.

Knit 1 row, 

Purl 1 row

Repeat from * twice more.

Cast off.

Tidy ends and sew 3 buttons into place on cuff to match button holes.

Voila!

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