You’re going to love the Weekday Cowl.
It’s a great way to get introduced to Mosaic Crochet, but also such a warm & cozy piece to wear.
This crochet cowl is a two colored crochet pattern, where you use each color every other row to create the beautiful stitch pattern.
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About the Your Weekday Cowl
If you’ve never worn a cowl before, you are missing out. Your Weekday Cowl is an easy crochet pattern to try your hand at this piece that feels like a big warm hug for your face and neck.
The design is anything but boring, featuring the Mosaic Crochet Technique, but it’s easier than it looks!
Worked in the round, this cowl is completely seamless, and sized for everyone with the ability to make adjustments.
The modern color pattern brightens up a chilly day, all while keeping the cold out.
Project level: Easy
Materials
Crochet Hook Size
Yarn
- Yarn
- Lion Brand – Wool-Ease in color Dark Rose Heather (Color A) & Fishermen (Color B)
- Weight
- 4 Medium Yarn
- Fiber
- 80% acrylic, 20% wool
Yarn amount needed:
| Color | Skeins | Grams | Meters | Yards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Color A | 2 | 125 | 265 | 290 |
| Color B | 1 | 85 | 180 | 197 |
| Total | 3 | 210 | 445 | 487 |
One skein is 85 grams · 180 meters · 197 yards.
Other Materials Needed
Gauge
Measured over stitch pattern crocheted in rows:
14 stitches & 18 rows per 10 cm / 4".
Crochet Pattern Notes
- This crochet pattern is written in US terms.
- All measurements given are unblocked.
- Note that measurements are given as exact as possible. But crochet tension & technique might give variations in the result, that changes from person to person.
- Read pattern instructions carefully before beginning to make sure you understand everything. It might save you hours frogging your work & crocheting it again!
- Make a swatch that measures at least 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4 inches using the stitch the gauge is given for. If your swatch matches the gauge, you’re good to go. If the gauge is wrong, you might need to change your hook. Go up in crochet hook size if your stitches are smaller & go down in crochet hook size if your stitches are bigger. Learn more about testing gauge.
- Check yarn info if you want to find an alternative or test your yarn against the gauge. Learn more about substituting yarn.
- This pattern is written for 1 size. Size adjustments are added under the heading “Sizes & Measurements”.
- At the end of each round, the stitch count is given in parenthesis.
- At the beginning of each round, work your first stitch into the first stitch, without starting chains. This will be the in same stitch as the stitch you made your sl st at the end of the previous round if the first stitch is a BLsc.
Sizes and Measurements
Circumference: 90 cm / 35.5 inches
Height: 32 cm / 12.5 inches
*Measured with cowl laying on a flat surface
Size Adjustments
- Make cowl wider/narrower by adding / reducing the number of foundation single crochet stitches you make when starting the cowl. Add/reduce by 8 stitches at a time.
- Make the cowl higher/shorter by adding/reducing the number of rounds you crochet. To make full pattern repeats, add/reduce by 16 rows.
Abbreviations
- BL = back loop
- BLdc = back loop double crochet
- BLsc = back loop single crochet
- CA = color A
- CB = color B
- FSC = foundation single crochet
- Ldc = double crochet in the front loop 2 rows below
- prev = previous
- sc = single crochet
- sl st = slip stitch
- st = stitch(es)
We try our best to include all crochet abbreviations in the list above for the crochet pattern, but sometimes we may forget one or two.
Learn more about crochet abbreviations & find a complete list on our Crochet Abbreviations & Terms post.
Techniques You Will Need
Crocheting in the Front and Back Loop
This means that you will not crochet through the whole stitch as usual. A typical stitch contains two loops. One in the front, nearest you, and another stitch in the back, furthest away from you. One is called the front loop (the one nearest you), the other one the back loop, the one furthest away from you.
These stitches are abbreviated with FL and BL in front of their regular abbreviation.
Mosaic Crochet
To crochet this pattern you will use the mosaic crochet technique, following these 3 simple rules:
- You will use color A & color B every other row.
- All single crochet stitches are worked in the back loop.
- All double crochet stitches (long double crochet/ Ldc) are worked 2 rounds below in the front loop & this front loop are always the same color as the one you’re working with.
Mosaic crochet
Read from the bottom up, from right to left.
The color for the round you are going to work are given to the left with letters A and B.
The colors in the diagram itself shows how it will look, but don’t pay too much attention to it when working each round.
Crochet single crochet for each empty box, and long double crochet for each box with an “X”.
Instructions for the Your Weekday Cowl
Written Instructions
With CA, FSC 120 st, sl st in 1st FSC.
Round 1 (with CA): BLsc 1 in each st until end of round, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 2 (with CB): Repeat row 1.
Round 3 (with CA): *BLsc 1 in the next 3 st, Ldc 1 in next st*, repeat from *to* until end of round, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 4 (with CB): BLsc 1 in 1st st, *Ldc 1 in next st, BLsc 1 in the next 3 st*, repeat from *to* until you have 3 st left, Ldc 1 in next st, BLsc 1 in the next 2 st, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 5 (with CA): Ldc 1 in 1st st, *BLc 1 in next st, Ldc 1 in the next 3 st*, repeat from *to* until you have 3 st left, BLdc 1 in next st, Ldc 1 in the next 2 st, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 6 (with CB): Repeat row 2.
Round 7 (with CA): Blsc 1 in 1st st, *Ldc 1 in the next 2 st, BLsc 1 in next st, Ldc 1 in the next 2 st, BLsc 1 in the next 3 st*, repeat from *to* until you have 7 st left, Ldc 1 in the next 2 st, BLsc 1 in next st, Ldc 1 in the next 2 st, BL sc 1 in the next 2 st, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 8 (with CB): Repeat row 3.
Round 9 (with CA): *Ldc 1 in the next 3 st, BLsc 1 in next st*, repeat from *to* until end of round, sl st in BL of 1st st (=120 st).
Round 10 (with CB): Repeat row 2.
Round 11 (with CA): Repeat row 9.
Round 12 (with CB): Repeat row 3.
Round 13 (with CA): Repeat row 7.
Round 14 (with CB): Repeat row 2.
Round 15 (with CA): Repeat row 5.
Round 16 (with CB): Repeat row 4.
Round 17 (with CA): Repeat row 3.
Round 18 – 49: Repeat round 2-17, 2 times.
Fasten off & cut CB.
Round 50 (with CA): Sc 1 in each st, sl st in 1st st from prev round (=120 st).
Fasten off & cut CA.
Fasten threads & weave in ends.
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