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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now or visit pattern website Errata available: pdxknitterati.com   The Snowy Woods Cowl is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” This piece is worked in the round, for ease in working the textured trees which always face you as you knit. The reverse stockinette edgings roll to the back of the cowl, leaving just the trees in all their mysterious beauty. This pattern was originally published in February 2014 for the Woolgirl Poet’s Club. It is now available to the public. I reworked this design...

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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now   This pattern is named for French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën (1878–1935). He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears, which inspired the logo for his brand, as well as the stitch pattern in this scarf. Also known as ‘herringbone gears’, the inlaid chevron pattern on these gears increases efficiency and decreases noise. Since a ‘muffler’ can be either a quieting mechanism in motors, or the British word for a scarf, in this pattern the pun serves double...

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This pattern is available for $3.50 USD buy it now Oink Pigments has the best yarn names! When I saw this “Mean Evergreen” colorway, I knew that the cowl couldn’t be called anything else. The reversible lace rib shows off the lightly-variegated colors and the worsted-weight cowl knits up in a jiffy. Available as part of the Knitting Recipes: Hats and Cowls e-book or as an individual pattern.

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