Shifting Sands Cowl

Shifting Sands Cowl is a top-down, lightweight cowl that features some breezy lace patterns, providing amazing drape and movement. The cowl can be worn in multiple ways, making it an excellent transitional piece.
 
The lace is reminiscent of the water ripples and swirls trailing back to the ocean and the way the ocean recedes over a pebble or shell left in the sand.
 
The pattern includes both written and charted instructions.
 
Finished Measurements
Front 15” 38 cm deep, back 8” 20 cm deep, 48” 122 cm bottom circumference, 34” 86 cm top neck circumference.
 
Yarn
Eden Cottage Yarns Keld Fingering (90% Superwash Extrafine Merino, 10% Linen fingering; 394 yards 360 meters/100 grams): Heathered Crags (1 ball).
The sample used approx. 383 yards 350 meters of yarn.
 
Needles
US size 6 (4 mm) and size 8 (5 mm): 32” (80 cm) circular
Or size needed to obtain gauge.
 
Notions
Removable stitch markers, tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends, row counter (optional)
 
Gauge
(measured on smaller (size 6) needles, after wet blocking)
20 sts x 34 rows = 4” (10 cm) in St st.
18 sts x 32 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in Diagonal Eyelets lace patt.
21 sts x 32 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in Gull Wings lace patt.
 
Techniques
Cable cast on, knit increases and decreases, make one increases, yarnovers.