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Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I spent some time before the holidays designing cowls for my older son’s teachers and I really enjoyed making this one using Red Heart yarns – Soft and Swanky, hence the name. Red Heart sent me a skein of their sequined Boutique Swanky yarn to check out and I loved it – the matching sequins, the silkiness, the workability. I thought it would look very nice paired with their Soft yarn so I chose a skein of Berry that I already had and held the two strands together. It’s hard to see the sequins in the picture above (except the reflection of one on my chin – ha!) but they are there, evenly spaced and adorable. I haven’t worked with sequin yarn much but didn’t find it to be a challenge at all. I was afraid the sequins would snag or I would have problems with them, but I didn’t.
*Please forgive my lighting in these pictures, I needed to wrap this so we took a few quick pictures before I had to box it up!
Soft and Swanky Cowl
By Amanda Saladin
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
Yarn: Red Heart Soft, 5.0 oz/141g, each approx 256 yards/234 meters (acrylic): 1 Ball # 9779 Berry
Red Heart Boutique Swanky, 3.5 oz/100g, each approx 202 yards/185 meters (acrylic/polyester): 1 Ball #9401 Sterling
Hook: N (9.00mm)
Notions: Yarn needle
SKILL LEVEL: Easy
YARN WEIGHT: DK (Swanky) and Aran (Soft)
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS: Approx
8” wide x 45” long
8” wide x 45” long
GAUGE: Not crucial for this project
NOTES
Hold one strand of each skein together throughout.
Ch 4 at beg of row counts as dc, ch-1.
COWL
Ch 150. Join with sl st, being careful not to twist.
Round 1: Ch 4, *sk next ch, dc in next ch, ch 1; repeat from * to end, join with sl st to 3rd ch of turning ch.
Round 2: Ch 4, *sk ch-1 sp, dc in dc, ch 1; repeat from * to end, join with sl st to 3rd ch of turning ch.
Rounds 3-9: Repeat round 2.
Round 10: Ch 1, sc in join, sc in first ch-1 sp, *ch 1, sk dc, ch-1, dc [dc, ch 1] four times in next ch-1 sp, sk dc, ch-1, dc, sc in next ch-1 sp; repeat from * to end, join with sl st to first sc.
Round 11: Ch 1, sc in first sc, *sc in ch-1 sp, sc in dc, [ch 3, sc in next ch-1 sp and dc] three times, ch 3, sc in ch-1 sp; repeat from * to end, join with a sl st to first sc.
Fasten off.
Fasten off.
Emily
Hi Amanda, Are you supposed to double the scarf, or is it just a tube? I’m making it now!
amanda
It is an infinity scarf so I guess that makes it a tube? 🙂
Emily
I think an infinity scarf means that it is twisted once, which makes an infinite loop with no beginning or end. My meaning is, do you double the scarf over it’s self when wearing it? Does it hang long and have to be looped around the head twice? Or is it a single tube that wear?
amanda
Oh! Sorry, I didn’t understand correctly. It is supposed to be looped around the head twice. That is how I am wearing it in the picture. Hope that clears it up. 🙂
Ruth
I don’t see a picture