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Cuckoo for Cowls

It seems cowls have been all the rage in the last couple of years and with any luck will remain a rage through this winter season.  I've finally jumped on the bandwagon and knit several of them this year so I certainly hope that's the case. I made several of the Honey Comb Cowl; it can been seen here .  You've seen two versions of the West Desert Hood here  and  here .  There's been a couple of versions of the False Creek Cowl here .  But I've been busy knitting up a couple of other types of cowls recently. A Flagel-designed cowl started out wanting to grow up to be a scarf, but there wasn't enough yarn to make it an appropriate length. (I so wanted it to be a scarf.)  A short scarf can rather easily turn into a cowl.  (This creation is another of my happy mistakes. I'm going to assume this process is the way many new knitting creations come about.)   The inspiration for this design came from a cowl I saw made up at Baad Anna's earli...