Tavis is inspired by the beautiful simplicity of the steek charts found throughout my book, The Vintage Shetland Project. I adapted these charts to create a colourwork pattern which creates the illusion of up to five colours in any one row, when in actuality, because of the construction method, there are never more than two colours worked in any one row. Tavis commences with a provisional cast-on and ends with a grafted seam but is knit simply in the round until being joined into a tube at the very end of the knitting. The cowl can be knitted in two lengths – the longer length shown here which can be wrapped around the neck twice, or a shorter length to be worn without wrapping. The sample was knit in Susan Crawford Vintage Byre, a soft, fingering weight blend of Jacobs and Shetland fibres.
