Helical Happiness Cowl - Knitting Pattern

This product is a knitting pattern for a simple cowl. 

Helical Happiness is a simple knitted cowl featuring a repeating tuck-stitch pattern, which creates a continuous helix around the cowl.  The pattern is simple and easy to knit, but has enough variation to keep you interested.  It's a one-skein knitting pattern for DK or aran yarn that knits up really quickly, so is perfect for last-minute gifts. 

Techniques used:

• i-cord bind-off and applied i-cord edging
• provisional cast on
• tuck stitches (similar to brioche stitches)
• knitting in the round

I wrote this pattern for 2 different yarn weights: Aran and DK.  It works beautifully in either, and the simple stitch pattern really shows off hand-dyed yarn. It's perfect for those skeins you're just not sure what to do with!

The pictures show the cowl in Toasty Aran (BFL/alpaca) and Oh So Fine! DK (BFL/silk). It would work really well in any worsted, aran or DK weight yarn, but the samples are made using these two and I love how they turned out. 

The pattern uses exactly 1 x 100g skein of yarn, but you can use more if you like!

Aran gauge: 14 sts x 16 rows = 10cm/4in using 5mm circular needles
DK gauge: 16 sts x 22 rows = 10cm/4in using 4mm circular needles

When you purchase, you'll receive a PDF download of the pattern.