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Hello, I'm Davina of Sheepandstitch.com and today we're going to knit the Cushy Cowl.
Now the Cushy Cowl is knit in garter stitch, which is great for beginners, and it's also
knit in the round. So instead of getting a long rectangle like a normal scarf, it knits
up into a big circle like an infinity scarf. or if you're in the UK, you might call it
a snood. Whatever you call it, the Cushy Cowl is great for looping around your neck. It's
like a wooly circle of love. It's awesome.
Alright, so if you don't have this free pattern, grab it from Sheepandstitch.com or click on
the URL in the description below, meet me back here and we'll get started!
Alright, so I hope you've got your pattern handy because we're going to go through the
materials list together to make the Cushy Cowl. Alright. So, first thing on our list
is 180 yards of super bulky yarn. I've got Malabrigo Rasta here, and it's a super soft
merino that I love wearing around my neck. So, the next thing that you're going to need
is a pair of 12mm or US size 17 circular needles. So these here that I've got are 32-inches
in length. So from here to here it measures 32-inches. But you can get a pair that's anywhere
from 32-inches to 40-inches. So, 12mm will give you a nice drapey fabric that's not too
loose. So, we're going to look at our sample right here.
And you can see that the fabric is actually quite drapey and loose. It has some movement
to it. It's not stiff. That's really what I want with the cowl. I want the cowl to be
drapey and casual. If you wrap it around your neck twice, it'll sit really nicely around
your neck. It's not going to look stiff. It'll look really luxurious. So that's what our
12mm needles will give us. It'll give us a nice, loose fabric.
Alright. The next thing we're going to need is a stitch marker. Now a stitch marker looks
like this. It's basically a little ring. We're going to use this to mark the beginning of
our round on our circular needle. Now, if you don't have a stitch marker handy that's
okay. You can use a ring! Like an actual ring that you wear on your finger. We can just
slip this onto our needle and it'll mark the beginning of our round.
Now if you don't have a ring or a stitch marker, you can use a rubber band or a hair tie. Basically
anything that is round and ring-like you can use as a stitch marker. Alright. Next thing
on our list is a tapestry needle. Now a tapestry needle looks like a giant sewing needle. It
has a really big eye here, and we're going to use this to weave in our ends when we're
finished our cowl.
Next thing on our list is a pair of scissors. The last thing that we need is a measuring
tape or a ruler. If you've got these things handy then we are ready to make the Cushy
Cool. Love this. Okay, so let's get started.
Let's move on to the first part of our pattern. We need to use the long tail cast on to cast
on 100 stitches. So let's stop right there. If you already know how to do the long tail
cast on, then please go ahead and cast on 100 stitches with the long tail cast on and
move onto the next part of our pattern, which is joining in the round. Now, if you don't
know a thing about the long tail cast on, then that's perfect because I'm going to show
you how to do it right now. Alright? So if you know what's what then move on to the next
step. If you don't know a thing - and that's okay! - then I'm going to show you how to
do the long tail cast on.
So, for this demonstration I'm not going to use my circular needles here because they're
really dark and my yarn is also really dark. You can see it just doesn't show up very well.
It's not very clear, so I'm going to use a pair of lighter needles. These ones right
here. And the yarn shows up really nicely on these, so I'm going to stick with these
flat needles. You can certainly use your circular needles or if you want to use flat needles,
that's fine too. They're a bit easier to work with and control, so that's totally fine.
So, let's talk about the long tail cast on. Why would you want to use the long tail cast
on and not the easy cast on? You might be thinking that and I'll tell you why. [indecipherable]
I'm going to bring out my sample and show you why the long tail is a really nice option.
If you look at our sample right here, our Cushy Cowl, you can see that it is quite stretchy.
It's knit up in garter stitch, and garter stitch is by nature very stretchy. So when
you've got a stretchy fabric like garter stitch, you want the cast on edge, which is right
up here, to supper that stretchiness. So you want your cast on edge to also be very stretchy.
As you can see, our cast on edge here is very stretchy. It really matches the stretchiness
of our fabric so that everything stretches together. So in order to get this stretchy
edge, we need to use the long tail cast on.
So the long tail cast on is perfect for pretty much any kind of cast on. When you're not
sure what cast on to use, use the long tail cast on. It's really foundational and really
awesome. So the rule of thumb is: when in doubt, use the long tail cast on.
Alright, so how do you cast on with the long tail cast on? That is a great question, and
I'm going to show you how to do it. So the long tail cast on is called the long tail
cast on because it uses the long tail of your yarn. Now what does that mean? When you make
a slipknot like this - and most cast ons start with a slipknot - you'll notice that our slipknot
divides our yarn into two sections. We've go this area right here, which is our long
tail, and we've got this part of our yarn, which is attached to our ball of yarn. This
part of our yarn is called the working yarn because usually we knit and purl with this
part of our yarn - the yarn that's attached to our ball. And this part of our yarn is
called the long tail. It usually doesn't do anything when we're knitting. It just kind
of hangs out. When we're casting on with the easy cast on from a previous video, we're
casting on with the working yarn. So the easy cast on went something like this. We just
looped our working yarn onto our needle like this, right? So all of our cast on stitches
with the easy cast on were made with our working yarn. And our long tai ljust kind of hung
out at the back. it didn't do anything.
But the long tail cast on actually uses the long tail of the yarn as part of the cast
on. So, what we need to do to cast on with the long tail is we first need to figure out
how much of the long tail we need in order to cast on. We could eyeball it, and some
people do. They kind of look at their yarn and go, "Okay, I need ten stitches, and I
think I can probably get ten cast on stitches with this amount of yarn." You could do that,
but it's kind of risky because sometimes you get the length wrong and then you realize
that, Okay, I don't have enough yarn to cast on, and you have to rip it out and start all
over again. That kind of blows. That's a bummer.
So here's an easier way, a better way, to figure out how much yarn you need. So what
you would do first is you would take your yarn and wrap it around your needle like this.
You don't need too much of a tail. Just a little like this is perfectly fine. So wrap
your yarn around your needle -use the needle you'll actually be casting on with - and wrap
it around the number of times that you need stitches. For example, if you need to cast
on ten stitches, wrap your yarn around ten times. So we've got our first wrap here, and
we're going to do our second wrap. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Cool. So pinch the point where you have the last wrap and take your needle right off of
the yarn. And now you know that this length of yarn is going to give you ten cast on stitches.That's
enough to cast on ten stitches. I usually give it a couple inches more to give me some
cushion. So let's start casting on.
I know this will give me ten cast on stitches. And this is the point where I'm going to make
my slipknot. So I'm going to make my slipknot with a loop. Bring the yarn tail to the back
and pick it out through the loop. So now I've got my slipknot. So I'm going to take my slipknot
and put it onto my needle, and tighten it up like this. So this is looking a lot like
our easy cast on.But this is where things get a little bit different with the long tail
cast on.
With the long tail cast on, I need my long tail up in the front. Right now my working
yarn is in the front and my long tail is in the back. I don't want that. i want my long
tail in the front. So, I'm going to take my stitch, pull it right off the needle, turn
it around, and put it right back on the needle. Pretty easy right? So now my long tail is
up in the front and my working yarn is in the back, and that's exactly how I want it.
Alright! Let's start casting on now. This is where my weird ditty comes in. In order
to start casting on with the long tail, we're going to need our left hand and our two fingers.
And what we're going to do with these two fingers on our left hand is we're going to
clamp down on these two yarn threads. In addition, I'm going to take my finger up here and secure
my first stitch on my needle because I don't want it to roll around like this. i want it
secure.
So, left hand, these two fingers clamp down on our yarn threads like this. Then I'm going
to take my thumb and my forefinger and I'm going to push open these two yarn threads
like this. So again: left hand, two fingers, clamp down on these two yarn threads. Then
with our thumb and forefinger, we're going to push open these two yarn threads. So I
call this the clamp and open sesame. I don't know why, but it kind of stuck, and most people
who I teach this to pick it up really quickly because it's kind of weird. Okay, so left
hand, two fingers, clamp. Thumb and forefinger open sesame. You can see that you get a diamond
shape or a fortune cookie shape when you do that. So you want your clamping to be pretty
tight because you don't want your hand to slide down. If you have a really loose clamp
then your hand might slide down and you don't want that. You want a firm clamp and an open
sesame. So try that motion a few times. You can certainly say it out loud. Then try moving
your hand back and forth like this, okay? Move your hand back and forth and get comfortable
with the motion of clamping, opening sesame, and moving your hand back and forth. Once
you're comfortable doing that, then we're going to start putting some stitches on this
needle.
Once you're comfortable we're going to start all over again. We're going to use our left
hand and clamp, open sesame. Then, we're going to move our hand to the front like this so
that I can see all of my fingers and see these two yarn threads flowing through my fingers.
Then I'm going to take my needle, touch it to my thumb, go through the loop on my thumb
like this, turn my hand, take my needle and go through the second loop. Then I'm going
to bring it through the original loop on my thumb like this and pull down. Let go of everything
and pull down. And there we go! Here's our first cast on stitch with the long tail cast
on. Pretty cool, huh? So we're going to do that again. Left hand, two fingers, clamp
down, open sesame, I'm going to take my hand, move it to the front so that I can see all
of my fingers, I'm going to take my needle and touch it to my thumb, go through the loop
on my thumb, turn my hand again, go through the second loop here and go through the original
loop on my thumb. Then, pull down. So there we go! There's our third cast on stitch with
the long tail cast on.
So you would go through the exact same motions until you get the number of stitches that
you want. So, two fingers, clamp, open sesame, turn your hand to the front, touch your thumb,
through the loop, turn your hand, through the second loop and then back through the
original loop on your thumb, pull down. Once you get the hang of this, you can go pretty
quickly and you can get a rhythm on it. You can cast on a lot of stitches really quickly,
but when you're first getting started it's a little bit funky and the hand gymnastics
might be hard to manoeuvre. But if you get stuck, just say it out loud: two fingers clamp,
open sesame, turn your hand to the front, touch your thumb, through the loop, turn your
hand again, second loop and the back through the original loop, pull down.
I want to show you what's going on. So the more stitches you cast on, the shorter the
long tail. Our long tail is four inches or so right now. That's what I mean when I say
that you need to figure out how much yarn you need for your casting on or else you could
get to the very end of your long tail and realise, Oh my gosh, I have five stitches
I need to cast on and then you've got to pull it off and start from the beginning again.
That's no fun. So always measure out how much yarn you're going to need for your long tail
cast on.
So, try that a few times. Once you get used to it, you can start casting on 100 stitches
for your cowl. Now a little note about casting on 100 stitches. Earlier I said that you should
figure out how much yarn you're going to need by wrapping your yarn around your needle.
So with your circular needle I would not advise that you wrap your yarn around 100 times because
that's going to get clumsy and unwieldy really quickly. A better way to do this is to wrap
your yarn around ten times first. So, let's do that. Take our yarn and wrap it around
the circular needle like this ten times. So here's two wraps. Three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten. Let's pinch that part, take our needle off. Now we know that
this length of yarn is going to give us ten stitches to cast on. So if we want to know
how much yarn we'll need for 20 stitches, we would fold this length of yarn against
our working yarn. Now I know that this amount of yarn - from our tip to this area - will
give us 20 stitches because I folded in half the length of yarn it takes to make ten cast
on stitches. So we can keep going. Once we know how much length of yarn we need for ten
stitches we can keep going in multiples of ten by folding our yarn agains the working
yarn.
So, here I've got enough yarn for 20 stitches. If I fold it again I know I've got enough
yarn for 30 stitches. An easier way to do this would be to measure our yarn against
20 stitches. This is good for 20 stitches. I'm going to pinch this point, which is our
20 stitch point, and unfold it. This is good for 20, so I can just fold it against my working
yarn and now I know that this amount of yarn will give me 40 stitches. If I fold it again,
then this amount of yarn will give me 60 stitches. And if I fold it yet again, I've got enough
yarn for 80 stitches. If I fold it one more time, then I know that this amount of yarn
will give me enough yarn to cast on 100 stitches. So right here will give me enough yarn for
100 stitches. This is a long yarn tail. Look at this. You can unravel it a bit and set
it aside. This is our whole yarn tail!
This is the point where we would make our slipknot. I'm going to give it a couple more
inches and then I'm going to make my slipknot like this. Then put our needle through, tighten.
Then we're going to make sure our yarn tail is up in front. Right now our yarn tail is
in the back, so we would take our stitch off, turn it around, put it back on our needle,
and there we go. Now our yarn tail is up in the front, our working yarn is in the back
and we can start casting on.
Two fingers clamp, open sesame, and then we would start casting on with the long tail.
So that is the long tail cast on. There you have it. This is how you would cast on with
the long tail and also how you would figure out how much yarn you need to cast on with
the long tail. So, cast on 100 stitches on your circular needles, meet me back here and
we'll start joining our stitches in the round to start knitting in garter stitch.
Alright, so now you've cast on all your stitches with the long tail cast on. You should have
100 stitches all the way around. Once you have that we are ready to join in the round.
But before we can join we have to make sure that our stitches aren't twisted. That's really
crucial. Let's take a look here. We want to make sure that all of our stitches here are
facing in the same direction. Right now they're facing inwards, and we want to make sure that
all of them are facing inwards. If they're not then we move them. So you can see here
that we've got a twist. So we have it twisted. If that happens, all you have to do is untwist
it. Literally untwist it and make it face inwards. So my stitches are untwisted at this
point. They're all facing inwards in the same direction. That's great. So once you have
your stitches untwisted, get your stitch marker out. This is it's shining moment when it really
comes in hand. We're going to put it on our right needle like that. Now we're ready to
join in the round. Pretty exciting, huh?
If we look at the pattern, we're going to be knitting garter stitch in the round. How
garter stitch in the round works is you would knit one round and then purl the other round
and you would repeat those two rounds. Knit one round, purl one round, knit one round,
purl one round. So now we're going to start our first round of garter stitch by knitting
a round. We would take our right-hand needle and knit into the first stitch on our left
needle. So we're going take our yarn, bring it from back to front, pull it through that
first stitch. And there we go! Now we have joined our work in the round. Look at that!
Now we are joined in the round. Pretty cool. Now we're going to keep knitting all of these
stitches until we reach the end of the round, which is marked by this stitch marker. So
pretty easy, not a lot of fancy work here. So that's what we're going to do. Keep knitting,
and once we've reached the end of our round, then we're going to purl. So knit your first
round, this round right here, and meet me back here and we're going to purl the next
round. Then we're going to take it from there, okay?
I am nearing the end of my knit round. I've got one more and here is my last one. Cool!
I've finished my first round of garter stitch in the round. I've done my knit round. Pretty
cool. Look at all my knit stitches here. All these little Vs. Now I'm ready to move onto
my second round, which is just purling. So I did all knit stitches for this round and
now I'm going to purl my whole round. What I would do is take my working yarn and bring
it to the front of my needle because we're going to purl next. I'm going to take my stitch
marker and move it from my left need to my right needle. Now I'm ready to go. I'm ready
to start again. So I'm going to start purling. Just a reminder: when you purl, you have your
yarn up front and you're going to take your right hand needle and slip it from the top
to the bottom of the stitch on your left needle. Then take your working yarn and move it from
the back to the front, and then pull it through. So what I like to do when I reach the join,
a new round, is I like to tighten it up a little bit. I even move it to the back to
tighten it up and move it back to the front. At this little join it's easy for the stitches
to get loose. So I don't want that to happen, so I pull it a little bit and tug it. So now
we can keep going. We're going to purl all of the stitches on this round.
So sometimes you might forget where you're at in the round. You might think, is this
a purl round or is this a knit round? And the best way to remember that is to look at
the stitches that are coming next. For example, you can see here that these are all knit stitches
by these little V-shapes. A knit stitch looks like a little V. When you're knitting garter
stitch in the round, you want to purl all of your knit stitches. So these are knit stitches,
so I know I've got to purl the rest of these. When you have a purl stitch like this. So
when you finish your whole purl round and you're back at the beginning of your round,
you would know that you got to knit the next round because you've got purl stitches here.
With garter stitch in the round, you would knit your purl stitches and purl your knit
stitches. I hope that makes sense. you've got knit stitches here, so you would purl
those stitches. Again, you would purl your knits and knit your purls. And that's pretty
much what garter stitch in the round is. So continue on doing this. Purl this round, and
when you reach the end of this round, you would knit. After that round, you would purl.
So do that until you have seven inches of garter stitch at which point we are going
to bind off and weave in our ends, and then you can wear your cowl out. Isn't that exciting?
So keep on purling. Keep on purling and knitting and purling and knitting and repeating those
two rows. I'll see you when you've got seven inches.
Oh, hey, what's up. I'm just knitting some garter stitch in the round, and I'm going
to show you a technique to deal with something that happens when you're knitting and that
is running out of yarn. So, when this happens, don't freak out. Don't freak out unless you
don't have anymore yarn in which case maybe freak out a little bit or buy some new yarn.
If you already have a new ball of yarn as I do then the only thing that you need to
do is join it to your work. Now this is an easy thing to do and I'm going to show you
two ways to do it. When this happens, just backtrack a little bit. Leave a longer tail
on your old yarn. So I'm going to take a stitch and that's pretty good. So four or five inches
on your old ball of yarn. Then slip our right needle into the stitch. Then with our new ball of yarn we're
going to lay it at the back over here with my old ball and I'm going to keep it secure
with a finger. I'm going to clamp down on it. Then I'm going to use my new ball of yarn
to knit into the next stitch. I'm going to tug it a little bit, but try and keep this
secure. I'm going to knit into the second stitch like this and I'm going to knit into
the third stitch with my new ball of yarn. After three stitches your new ball should
be secure. You can see when I tug on it, the strand where we joined stays in place. So
let's take a look. When you join in this way, you'll see there are two yarn threads that
stick out - your old ball of yarn and your new ball of yarn. There's also this ugly hold
that happens. Now don't worry about the hole. When we finish our cowl we'll come back around
and weave in these ends with a tapestry needle. So these strands won't stay here forever.
We're going to weave them in, cut these off, and it'll look really nice. So that's how
you join a new ball of yarn to your work. So when you're coming back around, you would
just purl over these two stitches like it ain't no thing. Just ignore that little gap.
You might have to make sure that these strands are secure so that they don't come out too
loose, but otherwise you would purl over them as if they were a normal stitch. So that's
one way to join a new ball of yarn to your work. Let's talk about the second way you
can join. The second way is the one that I usually use. I prefer this one because it's
more stealth, but the first one works fine too.
The second way to join a new ball of yarn requires that you have a bit more of a tail
on your old ball. So I'm going to take off some of these stitches that I've knit so I
can get a bit more of a tail. Let's take one more stitch off. Here we go. So now I've got
about ten inches on my old ball of yarn. That's a good length to have. Now when I reach my
next stitch I'm going to take my new ball of yarn, and I'm going to lay it over my old
strand of yarn like this. I'm going to use these two strands as if they were one. I'll
pretend that they've magically merged together, and I'm going to hold them as if they were
one strand. Then I'm going to knit into the next stitch. I'm going to make sure this doesn't
flop around. I'll keep it over my right needle to keep it secure. I'm holding two strands
in my right hand as if they were one, and I'm going to knit into the next stitch like
this. So I've just knit like it ain't no thing. They're two stitches together, really stealth.
And I'm going to keep going. I've knit one stitch with two threads held together. You
can see them right here. This is one knit stitch, but there's two strands. I'm going
to do that again and knit into my second stitch with two strands of yarn. And I'm going to
knit into my third stitch with two strands of yarn. So there we go. Now you can see that
these three stitches have been knit with our new yarn and old yarn carried together. On
the back you can see that this is where we joined, and these are our two yarns that we
held together and it's really secure. When I tug on my new ball of yarn, it doesn't move
around at all. This is where we joined, and it doesn't move around at all. It's not shifting.
My old ball of yarn has been carried in the back and it's very secure because we knit
into three stitches with it. So you don't have to worry about it coming loose or undone.
After you've knit three stitches with your old ball and new ball held together, then
you can drop your old ball and take up your new ball of yarn and knit with that. Then,
keep on knitting. Keep on knitting in garter stitch with your new ball of yarn, and that's
it! That's all there is to it. So when you're done your project, you would weave in these
little strands of yarn and it would be invisible. So this is a really nice invisible join. They
both are. When you've finished your round and you come back around, you would purl into
these stitches as if they were a normal stitch. So don't pay any mind to the fact that you've
got two strands making up one stitch, just purl into them as if they were one stitch.
So that's how you join a new ball of yarn to your work. So keep on knitting in garter
stitch in the round. I'll see you in a little bit.
So let's look at our cowl. It's really starting to look like a cowl now! This garter stitch
looks amazing. So let's measure it out to make sure we have 7 inches. Let's take a look
here and - yeah! We're at 7 inches. Perfect. Now if you want to keep knitting, you want
a big thick cowl, you can keep doing that. If yarn permits, you can keep knitting in
garter stitch. If you're happy with garter stitch then you can start binding off. Whatever
you decide, once you get to the width you're happy with, you're going to bind off. Now,
I've just finished a purl row as you can see here, which means my next row is going to
be a knit row. That's awesome because we want to cast off on a knit row. We're going to
do that right now. Here's a little reminder of how to do a bind off. With our right-hand
needle we're going to knit into our next stitch like this. Here we go. Then we're going to
knit into our second stitch like this. Then we'll take our left-hand needle and slip it
under our first stitch and slip it over our second stitch just like that. There we go.
So we've just bound off one stitch. And we'll keep doing that. I'm going to knit another
stitch and move our needle into the first stitch and slip it over the second. We'll
do that around the whole round. Now the important thing to remember about binding off is to
do it loosely. You don't want a death grip on your yarn. Keep it nice and loose. Loosey
goosey. Keep it looser than how you would normally knit. So I'm keeping a really loose
hold on it now, and that's because I want a nice loose bind-off edge. I don't want it
to be tight. I want it to sit nice and flat and to give some stretch too because garter
stitch tends to be stretchy.
So let's keep binding off until we reach the end of our row, and then we're going to move
on to our last step of our pattern, which is weaving in all of our loose ends. So that
would be the loose ends here - the long tail from our cast on, the places where we joined
a new ball of yarn. That's going to be our next step, but for now we're going to bind
off. So let's do that. Meet me back here when you've bound off your entire row, and we'll
move on to our last step.
So we're almost done our bind off here. Let's do one more knit. I'm doing it really loosely.
Here we are, our last bind off. Awesome! So here we go. We've bound off all of our stitches,
and now we're ready to get our scissors involved. I'm going to cut off about ten inches or so.
Just snip that right off. We're going to take the tail end of our yarn we just snipped off
and bring it around the front of our yarn and take this stitch on our needle and pull
it over our yarn tail like that. So now our needles are gone. Our cowl is off the needles,
and it looks pretty awesome, I think. Pretty good. I mean look at this cowl.
Alright, so now we're going to finish off our cowl by weaving in the ends with this
tapestry needle. It's a really good idea to get a tapestry needle because it'll really
come in handy when you're weaving in ends like this, our long tail, and also parts of
your knitting where you joined a new ball. So, right here we've got a join. We want to
weave in these ends because it'll look funky if you walk around with loose ends hanging
off your cowl. So let's do that now and try these two ends. I'm going to take my tapestry
needle here and thread it through with these ends. Then I'm going to weave it in these
stitches. This is the join area. We've got a hole here. So I'm going to put my needle
through this stitch here and close up that hole. Now weaving isn't an exact science.
If it looks good, if it looks inconspicuous, then that'll be what works for you. So I usually
go three stitches horizontally and then go up one stitch like this, do a vertical stitch,
and then go down again. So I'm almost making a circle with it. I'm going this way, up and
the back this way. I've woven in a number of stitches, so I'm going to cut off that
little end there. There we go. Let's get that out of the way. You can see that tail end
has been woven in pretty seamlessly. You can't see it that well. Even on the other side it's
hard for you to pick out exactly where that woven-in tail is. So we'll do that on this
side as well. And then we'll weave in the tail ends of our cowl. This area here is where
we cast on, and this is where we finished our cast off. We would do the same thing.
We'd take our yarn, thread it through the tapestry needle, and I'm going to bring my
needle through the next stitch on my cowl and close in that gap like that. I'll turn
it around again and do that again. So through here, i'll just weave in that end like that.
So, if it looks even you'll leave it at that. If it doesn't then maybe you'll do another
stitch. So I think that looks good. That looks decent, so I'll turn it over and weave in
my end over here. Maybe I'll go up here. You'll be doing this on all of your yarn tails where
you need to weave in. I've gone three stitches over and I'll go one up. The great thing about
garter stitch is you can do a lot of camouflaging because you've got all these great bumps,
so you can go into the bumps and hide your yarn ends that way. I've gone in three times
and I'm ready to snip off this end now. I might pull it a bit so it doesn't look so
tight. And now I'm going to snip off. There we go. Perfect. So you would do this on your
cast on edge as well and you would go through the rest of your cowl and look for any area
that needs to be woven in. Here's our other little tail where we joined a new ball of
yarn. Here we'll snip this off like that. Then, you're done! You're done your cowl and
you can wrap it around your head and wear it out and keep warm. Won't that be fun, huh?
Alright, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Go out, enjoy your cowl once you've woven
in and have fun with it! That is the Cushy Cowl.
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