Starshower is a shawl-cowl hybrid. It is shaped as a shawl, but mostly worked in the round - so it can be worn as a shawl, but without the ends dangling down. The simple Open Star stitch pattern perfectly complements Anzula’s sparkly fingering weight yarn, Nebula, though the pattern would work just as well with a favorite semi-solid or variegated sock yarn. (Sparkle is encouraged, but not required.)
Yarn: 400 yds/ 366m of a fingering weight yarn
Yarn Ideas:
Needles: US6 (4 mm) circular needle, 16-24”/ 40-60 cm long, or size needed to obtain gauge
Gauge (blocked):
18 sts & 27 rows = 4”/ 10 cm in Open Star Stitch
19 sts & 32 rows = 4”/ 10 cm in Garter Stitch
Meeting these exact gauges is not crucial, but any major differences will affect the size of the finished cowl.
Finished Measurements: 22”/ 56 cm circumference at top opening; 39"/ 99 cm circumference at bottom opening; 17.5”/ 44.5 cm height at center
Images copyrighted by Hilary Smith Callis
