Warm Chunky Cowl

I had been searching for the perfect grey faux fur short coat for years and years. The vintage/ flea market fairies blessed me this past Wednesday with the perfect super cheap rabbit fur coat. Humans have been keeping warm with fur for millenia, albeit killed "ethically". I am going to override my conscience here and tell myself that I didn't intentionally support the rabbit farming/ rabbit killing industry and that this coat would have ended up as landfill if I hadn't bought it. Working for you? ;)

Anyway, I waited so long for this coat that it needed the perfect scarf. I made the Bandana cowl http://www.purlbee.com/bandana-cowl from The Purl Bee Soho/ Erin. This page also has an editorial on short rows: http://www.purlbee.com/short-row-tutorial/

This pattern is this week's new and popular pattern on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/

I made the following modifications to the pattern:

• I cast on 79 stitches
• I short rowed until there were 11 stitches between wraps
• I made the decrease round (17-45-17) and knit only 1 round between decreases

I liked the pattern so much that I also made a boy's bandana to sell for charity (http://www.danakoshaaid.fi/). I haven't seen it on anyone yet, but I'm thinking someone may be delighted by it.