Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit

Over the past 25 years, we have helped countless aspiring knitters transform into lifelong knitters. It is the most impactful and important thing we do, because, truly, knitting makes life more joyful. We are so happy to bring more people in on this little secret with our new Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit, the perfect introduction to the joy of knitting!

We believe that the key to falling in love with knitting is to start with a yarn you can’t bear to put down. Our Super Soft Merino is just the thing, and that’s why we chose it for our Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit. A thick cloud of 100% merino wool that knits up quickly, it’s the dreamiest, cuddliest yarn you can imagine.

Our kits come in every Super Soft Merino color, which means you can choose from over 3 dozen colors (including 3 brand new ones!), and everyone gets to start their knitting journey with a color they love!

This new Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit is the sibling to our best-selling original Learn To Knit Kit, which teaches you to knit a scarf and has been a New York Times Wirecutter pick for two years in a row. You can start out as a true beginner with either kit, and both come in a charming pink tube packed with 2 skeins of Super Soft Merino, clear and thoughtful instructions, and everything else a new knitter needs.

Similar but different… Our original Learn To Knit Kit is also for first-time knitters and also includes 2 skeins of Super Soft Merino, but it teaches you how to knit a scarf “flat” with straight knitting needles. With this kit, you’ll learn everything you need to know to make a scarf in your choice of three beginner stitch patterns: garter, 1×1 rib, or seed stitch.

The Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit is just as beginner-friendly, but it teaches you to “knit in the round” with circular knitting needles, a basic knitting technique that creates a tube of fabric (like a cowl) rather than a flat piece of fabric (like a scarf).

Learning to knit a tube will give you a leg-up on projects like hats, hand warmers, sweaters, and so many other things you’ll want to knit next, but both ways of knitting are useful, both are approachable, both are fun, so it’s really knitter’s choice how they’d like to kick things off!

Regardless of which kit you choose, you will learn everything you need to know to make your first amazing project and will receive the same how-to-knit instructions, born from long experience and thoughtfully written to get new knitters off on the right foot. All knitting is really just two stitches, knits and purls, and you’ll learn both with either of our Learn To Knit Kits, as well as how to combine knit and purls into simple stitch patterns, like the cowl’s so-called “mistake rib” pattern.

If you’re already a knitter, then you know how priceless it may be to give a Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit to the people in your life who will plant the seed and grow. What a gift! And if you don’t know how to knit, what are you waiting for?! Learn now and have a pile of cowls ready by December… Really!

If you love the yarn used in this project, you’ll love all of our other yarn, too! Explore our 35+ lovingly created yarn collections, in nearly every natural fiber and spectacular color you can imagine… Only available here at Purl Soho’s online yarn shop!

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Materials

Our Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit includes everything you’ll need to make your very own Mistake Rib Cowl. It includes…

• 2 skeins of Purl Soho’s Super Soft Merino, 100% merino wool yarn. Each skein of this super bulky-weight yarn is approximately 87 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 140 (165) yards required.
• US 11 (8 mm), 16-inch circular needles
• A yarn (or tapestry) needle
• A stitch marker
• A Learn To Knit A Cowl Pattern

And the best part is, the Learn To Knit A Cowl Kit comes in every color of Super Soft Merino! Choose your favorite…

SIZES

Small/Medium (Medium/Large)

Finished Dimensions: 17 inches in circumference x 10 inches tall (19 inches in circumference x 10 inches tall)

Samples: The cowls shown on models are the Small/Medium size.

PATTERN

If you already have what you need, pick up just the Learn To Knit A Cowl Pattern, which includes thorough how-to-knit instructions and the cowl pattern.

Looking for more inspiration? Explore all of our free knitting patterns and knitting tutorials, buy one of our many knitting kits and yarn bundles, and shop for beautiful yarn. We have over 35 gorgeous natural fiber yarns in 100’s of magnificent colors, designed to bring integrity, beauty, and joy to your next knitting project and only available at Purl Soho!