Five By Five Cowl

In this workshop, you'll learn how to make the purl stitch, ribbing, provisional cast on and two methods for grafting while knitting a beautiful infinity loop cowl.

Felicia Lo · September 23, 2020

The Five by Five Cowl workshop is meant to follow the Learn to Knit workshop that taught the absolute basics of knitting: from casting on, to knitting a garter stitch scarf, to learning how to bind off and finish a knitted project. In this workshop, learn to take your knitting skills to the next level, with some more fundamental techniques including:

  • how to work the purl stitch
  • how to combine knits and purls into ribbing
  • how to do a provisional cast on
  • how to work a Kitchener stitch to graft two ends together in a very seamless way
  • also how to do the three needle bind off to do a quick, but more visible, seam

The project we’ll make in this series is the Five by Five Cowl: a cozy infinity loop cowl made by holding three yarns together (in our example we use 2 fingering weight yarns and a lace weight but you can use whatever you’d wish!). It’s a perfect project to practice these new skills on and have fun playing with texture and colour at the same time! Download the free pattern and get started!


For any questions and to share your blanket adventures, come visit us in the SOS community forums! Plus, tag us on Instagram with #sosknitting and #schoolofsweetgeorgia!

Have you ever had trouble with a messy long-tail cast-on? One end seems to be getting all kinked up while the other end is separating before your very eyes! What is going on here? Well, every time we make a wrapping motion, we change our yarn. Some projects are fine, but others… well, they just seem to be so difficult! Let’s have a look under the hood to see how and why the twist direction of our yarns can make or break a project.⁠

New at the School is Amanda Buckley`s @mandythephilomath article Twist And Shout: Why Twist Direction Matters In Your Making, arming you with the knowledge of how our techniques can change yarn as we work with it, and how we can choose to compensate for it or even amplify it for effect.⁠

Read the full post at the SOS site (link in bio)!⁠



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The tubular cast on is an invisible cast on that’s great for hems, cuffs, and ribbing edges where you want to have a bit of elasticity. It creates a super stretchy and beautiful edging for your knit pieces, and in Tabetha`s @tabismiles new How to Work a Tubular Cast On post, you can find a step-by-step tutorial on how to work these cast on stitches!⁠

Find the new Tubular Cast On post at the School – link in bio »⁠

Shown in the image is Kristen`s @kristentendyke Drifter pattern, knit in @sweetgeorgia Superwash Worsted.⁠



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Lisa Congdon calls it loud quitting: an assertive and unapologetic no to everything in her life she finds draining, feels done with, one-sided, obligatory, without purpose or joy. Sounds cathartic. If project management is a matter of managing our motivation, then loud quitting is the decision to face our setbacks and hang-ups, evaluate the project, and get rid of it completely. It is time to get frogging.⁠

At Amanda Buckley`s @mandythephilomath new article `Frogging & The Art of Project Management`, continue reading about frogging and the anatomy of a quit. We can undo a little bit to fix an error, or we can undo the whole lot and reclaim the yarn. Both options are valuable tools in the art of project management. Find the article link in our link in bio!⁠



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Have you ever wished you knew exactly what yarn to get in a rush order or trip to an LYS, that you could predict the finished drape and feel of your project, or (gasp) could skip gauge swatching? I have some tips and tricks on creating a gauge library to help you with all three of the objectives above. (Okay, you might not be able to skip gauge swatching; Tabetha Hedrick, SweetGeorgia’s guru of gauge, is watching me! But having a gauge library will make that step go by just a little quicker!)⁠

Continue reading Ruth Nguyen`s @redearthdesignstudio new How to Create a Gauge Library article, where we hope you are inspired to start your own. Knowledge is power, and knowledge that is catalogued and easy to access is that much more powerful—especially when it comes to our knitting and crochet projects!⁠



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I have been trying to design a triangular shawl. I can’t stop making charts, finding bunch of mistakes and fixing them! This is so addicting 😍 I took designing course at schoolofsweetgeorgia and it has been very helpful ❤️
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We’re excited to kick off our February Hold-Along tomorrow and hope you’re just as eager to join in. Last week, we talked about why double (triple, quadruple) stranding is awesome, so hopefully your imagination is running away with you on all the options you can try out. Have you made your Hold-Along plans yet?⁠

If a sweater is in your Hold-Along plans, then guess what?! The Flannery sweater pattern has been updated with a handy-dandy little spreadsheet (on Google Sheets) that will enable you to plug in your stitch and row gauge, along with your own measurements, to get completely customized stitch and row counts for the pattern. It’s the perfect oversized, cozy sweater.⁠

You can find all of the info at today`s blog post (link in bio) along with the discount code to get the Flannery pattern for 20% OFF! Plus, check back at the SweetGeorgia blog tomorrow, February 1st, for our Hold-Along official cast on!⁠

Flannery – design by Tabetha Hedrick tabismiles⁠
Shown knit in SweetGeorgia Superwash Worsted in Lilac and modelled by Charlotte charlotte_milkteacup at SweetGeorgia!

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Indulge in the colours and textures of beautiful hand-dyed yarns. This super easy-to-knit cowl takes three yarns knit together to make a lush, cozy and bouncy infinity loop that can be worn wrapped or loose!

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

  • Approx 52" (122 cm) circumference x 7" (18 cm) wide, relaxed without blocking

YARN

NEEDLES & NOTIONS

  • US 10 ¾ / 7mm needle
  • Spare knitting needle
  • Tapestry needle
  • Crochet hook
  • Waste yarn for provisional cast on

GAUGE

  • 14 sts and 18 rows per 4" (10 cm) in five by five ribbing, relaxed

About Instructor

Felicia Lo

founder + creative director of SweetGeorgia // designer + dreamer // wife + mama // dyer, knitter, spinner, weaver // author + youtuber // been writing about colour and craft since 2004 // has far too many instagram accounts @lomeetsloom, @felicialowong, and @sweetgeorgia.

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Course Includes

  • 8 Lessons
  • Course Certificate
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