Crochet Cosy and Warm Ribbed Cowl Neckwarmer

For this COWL, start with 15 loops.
If you would like to have a COWL bigger you can start with more loops and then have more loops in each row.

We knit with our hands, no hook or needle is needed, it is quick and easy.

STEP 2) FOUNDATION CHAIN

Start working at beginning of yarn, make a knot, take the second loop from the knot and putt it in the first loop from back to front and pull it down.

Continue this way: working across the foundation loops, take the next loop in your working yarn and pass it through previous / just finished stitch from back to front. Continue with the next loop in the working yarn and the next loop in the foundation loop chain. Work your way all the way across.

Make 15 loops foundation chain of one color.

STEP 3) STOCKING STITCH FIRST ROW and NEXT ROWS

We work in rows.

Start stocking in just finished stitch/ last stitch in foundation chain, take the next loop in the working yarn and pull it through the previous / just finished st, then continue by taking the next loop in your working yarn and putting it through the previous stitch/loop from back to front and pulling up.

Make sure you have 15 loops in each row.

We return to the beginning (to the «knot»).

Do not forget that we have to always start to pass the first to the last stitch in the previous row.

LP we always start the next row by knitting again to the last stitch from the previous row.

We now have 15 loops in a row.

Make sure you have 15 loops in each row.

STEP 4) SHAPE THE RIBBING PATTERN

We knit a loop into a loop, there are 15 loops in each row.

Abbreviations:

BF — we PULL the loop from BACK to FRONT

FB — we PULL the loop from FRONT to BACK

LP – loop / chain

R1: ALTERNATE 1 LP BF, 1 LP FB till end of row

R1 = R2: ALTERNATE 1 LP BF, 1 LP FB till end of row

Repeat row R1, the pattern will be nice and ribbed on front and on back side.

Make 25 rows.

R26: brink the lower left corner and the upper right corner of the rectangle together and join them.

The seam will have a length of approx. 10 cm, i.e. 5 rows and a circumference is approx. 34 cm / 13.3 inches

Weave the loops on the chain on both sides, first we gradually pull the loop through the last stitch in the 1st row, the next loop through the last stitch in the 2nd row, the next loop through the last stitch in the 3rd row, etc., until we have 5 loops pulled through in this way.

Pull these loops through the last stitches in row 1 — 5 on the other side.

We have 5 loops that are pulled through both sides.

Join the loops in a chain from the bottom up. Start knitting from the bottom loop up loop to loop, we knit the second loop to the first, the third to the second, etc.

STEP 5 — FINISHING

Join loops, loop to loop, start kniting from last loop of the seam, work from right to left. Hide all ends and fasten off.

WE'RE DONE! HURRAH! FABULOUS COSY SOFT RIBBED COWL IS READY FOR FALL!