Pattern Spotlight: Market Day Cowl

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Published in May of 2017 the Market Day Cowl combines basic purls, knits and cables with vibrant colors to evoke the beautiful traditional textiles of West Africa. Market Day Cowl is extra-long so it can be looped once for a draped-scarf feel or twice for colder days.

Sample is knit in Wonderland Yarns Mad Hatter in the colorway Shillings and Pence and evokes the traditionally indigo-dyed Leppi Cloth from Guinea where my husband and I were Peace Corps Volunteers.

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Market Day Cowl
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Leppi Cloth from Guinea, West Africa, 1997

 

The Market Day Cowl is available through Ravelry, WEBS and LoveKnitting!