Michalina Cowl – Luxury Kit

Description

This kit includes:

• 120g total of Tannahill yarn in mini-skeins. A five colour collection specifically designed for the Michalina Cowl: darkest navy (40g), two shades of blue (20g each), grey (20g, and pale lemon (20g). Tannahill is a pure merino fingering/4ply weight yarn approx. 396 metres per 100g. It’s milled and dyed right here in Aotearoa N.Z. from local merino fleece.
• A PDF file of the Michalina cowl pattern.
• Access to a full walkthrough video tutorial for the pattern. Learn lots of tips and tricks for this pattern and all your future knitting projects.
• Two 5ml sachets of Soak gentle laundry wash – Pineapple Grove and Unscented. This no-rinse wash is ideal for caring for your hand knits.
• Stitch markers and a blue crystal progress tracker.
• Travel-sized yarn snips.
• Finns Fudge squares in the chocolate salted caramel flavour.

Not included, but required to knit the pattern: 3.50mm, 40cm circular needle. If you don’t have one already, consider adding one to your order.

You can see a detailed video showing everything in this kit and an explanation of the inspiration behind it on my YouTube channel:

Pattern details

A close fitting cowl, generous in length and worked in stranded colour work, provides significant protection from the cold and wind on winter days. This project is ideal for those new to colour work wanting to explore a range of colour work techniques.

Michalina is named for Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952), a polish artist who created extraordinary works on glass. This cowl was specifically inspired by her work “Winter” c.1925 (The National Museum in Krakow MNK IV-Mal-325).

The tutorial video has a run time of almost two hours ( 1:47:47) and has marked chapters to enable you to quickly find the information you need.

The pattern is presented in PDF form.

This comprehensive tutorial sets you up for complete success and will give you skills you’ll find valuable in future.

Skills covered

• Working corrugated rib.
• Understanding the different technical requirements used to complete different styles of stranded colour work:
  • Tensioning
  • Securing yarns to ensure sensible float lengths in patterns with long runs of colour.
• Three ways to work colourwork (yarns in both hands, yarns in your right-hand, yarns in your left-hand).
• Dealing with yarn ends.
• Blocking your work for an elevated finish.

Materials

• For a result similar to the model, choose five colour of Vintage Purls Tannahill yarn.
  I recommend:
  • • One dark shade. Colour A. Requires 40g.
      All your other colours should contrast well against this.
    • Two shades of a colour (e.g. two blues, one darker than the other). Colours B & C. Requires
      15g of each.
    • One pale colour. Colour D. Requires 20g.
    • One bright “pop” colour. Colour E. Requires 10g.
      Tannahill is a pure merino, woollen spun yarn. It is 4ply/fingering weight (100g/396m).
• 3.50mm needles or size that gives you gauge.
  I used a 40cm long circular needle throughout but double point needles are an altenative option.
• Optional: 5.00mm needle (or needle tip). This is for the cast off only. Close enough is good enough, pick a needle
  3 – 5 sizes larger than your main needle to ensure your cast off is not too tight.
• A stitch marker.

Gauge

27 stitches and 30 rows in 10cm in blocked stranded colour work.

Size

54cm circumference. Modification advice is included in the pattern.