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This Bruinen cowl crochet pattern is a fun, fancy design I adapted to make a cowl. This pattern, written by Jasmin Rasanen and available for free on Ravelry. She wrote the pattern for a triangular shawl or a rectangle wrap. Step by step photo directions are provided below to help you make this fun and easy cowl too. Enjoy!
The Bruinen Design
The idea for this cowl crochet pattern came to me after I had worked a shawl with this beautiful and fun pattern from Jasmin Rasanen. Check out the original pattern here on Ravelry.
The Yarn
The yarn called for in the pattern, is a fingering weight 100% marino wool. When I made the shawl pictured above, I used 1 1/2 balls of Mandala from Lion Brand Yarns. This yarn is a light or DK weight yarn, which is heavier than the yarn weight listed for the pattern on Ravely. When making my shawl, I used the same size hook as was called for in the pattern, a H8.
For the cowl version, I used the same yarn, but I used a smaller hook. After working a few swatches, I decided I wanted to use a smaller hook so the pattern would be a little tighter, it is a neck warmer after all…
My Changes
The changes I made for this cowl crochet pattern are found mainly in the way that I started and ended each row and the fact that I made it so the pattern is made in the round.
At the start of each row 2 repeat you will make half of a shell. You will then work around the row making complete shells. The last few stitches are to make the second half of the first shell you made. The shell rows should appear almost seamless at the end.
Can you see where they are joined in the photo below?
I prefer to work in the round when I can, because I do not like seaming things. However, when I first working on this pattern, I did do a version that was flat and had to be seamed up…
You will not find it in the written instructions of the pattern I linked to above, but in the later pages of the pattern is a stitch diagram if you were going to make a scarf for this pattern. This cowl largely follows the diagrammed pattern. In fact I followed that diagram exactly to make the seamed version of this cowl, I just made it much shorter than you would for a scarf and then sewed the edges together.
Jasmin recommends a double crochet foundation chain for the first row of the pattern. Any of you that are here regularly might know, I much prefer this type of beginning to chaining a ring and then working back into each chain. Check out this tutorial for help with foundation chain crochet stitches (including how to work them into a ring!)
The Altered Cowl Crochet Pattern
Details
Skill Level: Easy
Size of Finished Cowl: 19 inches in diameter if completed as written, but I have also provided directions for making it larger or smaller as it suits you.
Gauge: 4 in x 4 in gauge swatch.
17 DC stitches x 10 rows
*The first row of the gauge swatch below was made with 18 foundation Double Crochets. When working the second row, I skipped the first foundation double crochet (the one the is made up of chs).
Materials Needed
- 1 skein Mandala Yarn. Use any color you like! The changing colors is one of my favorite things about this cowl
- Size G6 4mm crochet hook – Get a set of popular beginner aluminum crochet hooks here
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
Stitches and Abbreviations
- Foundation Double Crochet (FDC)
- Chain (ch)
- Stitch (st) – usually referring to the stitch from the previous row you are working into
- Skip (sk)
- Slip Stitch (SS)
- Single Crochet (SC)
- Double Crochet (DC)
- Front Post Double Crochet (FPDC)
- Double Crochet 3 Together (DC3TG)
Changing The Size
This cowl crochet pattern is worked in the round rows. At the end of each row you are instructed to SS into a chain stitch made at the beginning of the row.
This pattern has a multiple of 8. Each repeat of 8 is worth a bit less than 2 inches of length if you work in the same gauge I have noted above.
So if you want to make the cowl a little tighter around than 19 inches, decreasing the starting row by 8 stitches will make the final product measure a bit more than 17 inches.
Alternately, if you want to make it a bit looser than 19 inches, increasing the starting row by 8 stitches will make the final product almost 21 inches in diameter.
About the Shells….
If you start with the 88 stitches I have written, you will be working a total of 11 shells repeated around the cowl as part of row 2. 10 of those shells are created all at once in * repeats. The 11th shell is created half at the start of the row and half at the end of it. You will join the row at the top of this shell.
Directions
Row 1. 87 FDC. Join to form ring (this forms the last FDC). (88FDC)
Row 2. Ch 3 (counts as first DC and Ch 1). [DC, Ch 1] 2 more times in same st. Sk 3. *SC. Ch 1. Sk 3. [DC, Ch 1] 6 times in next st. Sk 3. Repeat from * 10 times. SC. Ch 1. Sk 3. [DC, Ch 1] 3 times into same stitch as beginning stitches (second ½ of shell). SS to 2nd Ch at start of row.
A note about row 3: In this row, you are completing a single crochet into either the chain space at the top of a shell or the single crochet between 2 shells. You will skip all other stitches. A chain of 5 stitches is used to skip over the shells and work in only those two places. See the photo below Row 3 directions for further clarification.
Row 3. Ch 1 (counts as first SC). Ch 5. Sk to the sc between shells from previous row. *SC in single crochet from previous row. Ch 5. Sk to top of next shell. SC in chain space at the top of the shell. Ch 5. Skip to between next shell. Repeat from * 10 times. SS into first ch of the row to join.
Row 4. Ch 1 (counts as first SC). 3 SC into chain 5 space from previous row. Ch 3. *3 SC into chain 5 space. SC into next st. 3 SC into chain 5 space. Ch 3. Repeat from * 10 times. 3 SC into next chain 5 space. SS to first chain of row to join.
Row 5. Ch 2 (counts as first DC). DC into each of next 3 st. * DC3TG in chain 3 space. DC into each of next 7 st. Repeat from * 10 times. DC into each of next 3 st. SS to 2nd chain (top of first “DC”).
Row 6. ch 3 (counts as first DC and Ch 1). Sk 1 st. *DC in next st. Ch 1. Sk 1. Repeat from * 43 times around. SS to 2nd chain from start of row.
Row 7. Ch 2 (counts as first DC). DC into every DC and chain 1 space around. SS into 2nd chain from start of row.
Row 8. Ch 2. FPDC on every st around. Skip ch 2. SS to top of first FPDC created.
Row 9. Ch 2 (counts are first DC). DC in every st around. SS to 2nd chain from start of the row to join.
Height of the Cowl
Repeat rows 2 – 9 until you have the desired height for your cowl.
I repeated rows 2 – 9 a total of 3 times in 2 of the cowls I made. The third cowl I repeated the rows 4 times!
Once you have the desired height you have to decide what edge you want for your cowl. If you just tie off after you finish row 9 you will have a lovely straight edge.
Or you can repeat ONLY ROW 2 one more time and have a lovely scalloped edge as pictured below.
I really love the scalloped edge and all 3 of the cowls I made had this edge.
You Are Done!
I hope you enjoyed this pattern alteration. I really love Jasmin’s Bruinen pattern and who knows? I may come up with another fun alteration in the future…. Let me know in the comments below if you have any ideas what else I should do with it!
Happy Hooking!
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