GUARDIAN

Guardian is a colorwork cowl, worked bottom up in the round, featuring pairs of wings around the center. A great project for scraps and playing around with endless color combinations!

The pattern is written for 5 colors in fingering or sport weight yarn, though you can easily choose more or fewer colors to fit your style and aesthetic, or substitute heavier weight yarn for a bulkier or warmer cowl.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Fingering weight:
22.5”/57cm circumference, 8.5”/21.5cm high

Sport weight:
21”/53cm circumference, 11”/28cm high

Sample uses fingering weight yarn.

YARN
Brooklyn Tweed Peerie (fingering), 210 yds/50g per skein

C1 (purple): Cobbler
C2 (pink): Arabesque
C3 (grey): Henge
C4 (white): Thaw
C5 (green): Seaglass

YARDAGE
Fingering weight:
C1: 126 yds
C2: 15 yds
C3: 45 yds
C4: 75 yds
C5: 60 yds

Sport weight:
C1: 130 yds
C2: 25 yds
C3: 50 yds
C4: 80 yds
C5: 80 yds

NEEDLES
Fingering weight: US2/2.75mm (or size needed to obtain gauge) 16-20”/40-50cm circular needle

Sport weight: US 4/3.5mm (or size needed to obtain gauge) 16-20”/40-50cm circular needle

GAUGE
Fingering weight:
32 st x 36 rows = 4” x 4” (10cm x 10cm) in stranded colorwork, after blocking

Sport weight:
28 st x 32 rows = 4” x 4” (10cm x 10cm) in stranded colorwork, after blocking

Pattern photography by Zach Schroeder