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Hopefully when we have languished in the ashes, we will all reach our Phoenix rising moment! This cowl memorialises mine, in the loving stitch by stitch embrace of the knitting that has always sustained me … Commit your own to your own healing stitches. This is a cowl to ‘create’ with! I chose colours to go with the theme of a phoenix rising from a pile of ashes, as I had them sitting there and they birthed the idea for me, but nothing holds you to that, you could choose colours that you feel signify something for you with your own rising moment, just be free and rise!

Phoenix Rising Cowl
You will knit this cowl as a long opened single layer piece. Starting with a provisional knit with waste yarn cast on, you knit the what I call the ‘inside’ (as it’s the plain stockinette side that will become the inside) with half of a border at the top and bottom then once that’s behind you which is a nice comforting run of stockinette in the round, aside from the purl knit patterned borders, you move straight onto working the phoenix chart side, and once completed you close the piece by using Kitchener stitch to join the last worked stitches to the initial provisionally cast on edge to create a snuggly double layer cowl.

Knitting skills & techniques used:
Intermediate - Advanced: Casting on/provisional cast on using crochet hook method and waste yarn, Kitchener stitch for closing, following a colourwork chart, knitting & purling in the round, colour work with 2 colours.

Materials:
The following yarn usage amount is an approximate guide and is in fact a little over the actual amount I used, as I have applied an approx. 10% buffer of each ball used, plus rounded up the numbers, in view of differences between knitter’s gauge and such, and to give you a few grams room:
Requires approx. 1431 yards / 1200 metres 4ply weight yarn.
For the Sample I used: Eden Cottage Yarns, Rosedale 4py, (80% Wool - Merino, 15% Manufactured Fibres – Nylon/Polyamide, 5% Manufactured Fibres - Stellina, 437 yards / 400 meters)
I used the approximate amounts (all under a skein) of each of the following yarns:
Yarn A: ‘Chestnut’, (Golden-Bronze tonal) (280 meters / 306 yards)
Yarn B: ‘Starling’, (Grey tonal with rusty flecks) (240 meters / 262 yards)
Yarn C: ‘Mountain Hare’, (Bronze & Beige tonal) (315 metres / 344 yards)
Needles: 3.75mm / US 5 Circular needle (at least 80cm circumference)
Notions: 7 stitch markers & 1 unique BOR marker. Tapestry needle to perform Kitchener stitch with and to weave ends,and waste yarn for provisional cast on.

Gauge: 4” (10 cm) on 3.75 mm / US 5 needles (after blocking) 26 stitches & 35-39 rounds in stockinette stitch> My Stitch count remains the same over colourwork but my Rounds can vary from 35 over colourwork to 35 over straight stockinette knitting, so anything in that range should be fine.
Incorrect Gauge can affect finished measurements but as this is not a garment, you don’t have to be too precise when it comes to measurements but keep it in mind when planning yarn usage.

Finished measurements:
Circumference: 34” / 86cm Laying Flat: 17” / 43cm Depth: 9.5” / 24cm