Yonath Cowl by Christine Marie Chen

Craft: Knitting

This pattern is available on Ravelry.  

Our Spring ‘21 Make It Now collection features stitch textures -- mesh, cables, seed, eyelets, and knit-purl combinations in embossed relief -- in light fabrics and soft colors that highlight March’s transitional weather.

As March is also Women’s History Month, the pattern names nod to women who’ve won the Nobel Prize: Grazia Deledda (Literature, 1926), Emmanuelle Charpentier (Chemistry, 2020), Shirin Ebadi (Peace, 2003), Gertrude Elion (Medicine, 1988), Ada Yonath (Chemistry, 2009), and Alice Munro (Literature, 2013).

Yonath has cables at the edges and between mesh panels to give the cowl structure as well as visual interest. Linen-blend Milo keeps the fabric’s stitch patterns crisp and the fabric light.

Finished Size

46” circumference and 12¾” tall

Yarn

Manos del Uruguay MILO (65% merino wool, 35% linen; approx. 380 yds/100 g):

2 sks. Shown in i2061 Pollen

Needles & Notions

US 6/4mm 16” circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge

Cable needle

Tapestry needle

Gauge

20 sts and 36 rows = 4”/10cm in St st; each 16-st panel of yo, k2tog measures 3¼” wide; each 6-st cable measures ¾” wide, after blocking.

Abbreviations

BO: bind off

cn: cable needle

CO: cast on

k: knit

k2tog: knit

rep: repeat(s), repeating

RS: right side

sl: slip

st(s): stitch(es)

St st: stockinette stitch

WS: wrong side

yo: yarnover