Easy Bulky Raspberry Cowl

I'd been dieing to knit myself a cowl that could easily function as a hood for quite some time, I'd also been jonesing to do more knitting with bulky yarns as projects made with the stuff knit up so quickly and give you that buzz over finishing up a project that much faster, and lastly, I'd been wanting desperately to come up with a project for that lovely Black Raspberry Charisma yarn by Loops and Threads I kept seeing at work. So... I decided to satisfy all three urges at once.

It works nicely as a hood, or a neck warmer...

 And it can even snug down over the shoulders nicely.

So if anyone is interested, here's the pattern.

Easy Bulky Raspberry Cowl

Knit flat

2 skeins of Loops and Threads Charisma in Black Raspberry

Size 15 US needles

Cowl is knit using two strands of yarn, both skeins used at the same time. I tried to line up the two strands so that the color changes occurred at the same time.


Gauge: 8 stitches over 4 inches


Cast on 62 stitches


Do 5 rows in stockinette stitch, starting and ending with purl rows.

Then knit the next 47 rows in stockinette stitch starting and ending with purl rows.

Then knit the last 5 rows in stockinette, starting and ending with purl rows.

Sew a seam up the side in mattress stitch, from purled end to purled end. Weave in ends.