Play with the Pleats and Ladders Cowl

We published the Pleats and Ladders Cowl just over a year ago on our website, and we have now added it to the Farm & Fiber Knits Library to make it more accessible. The original version was such a treat to knit in three naturally dyed skeins from Wing & A Prayer Farm yarn. Even my little ewe Lola was impressed (see her photo bomb below).

Kate loved knitting the Pleats and Ladders Cowl in farm yarn from Wing & A Prayer Farm: Three skeins of Peter Pan + Fam 3-Ply. Can you see Lola’s big curious ears?

3 Ways to Make It Your Own

As both an editor and designer, I think it is so important to bring you accessories that can be easily adapted to the yarn you want to use. Whether you want to invest in a few small-batch skeins from a farm, or pull a few great oddments out of stash, or discover a fabulous natural-fiber yarn from your local yarn store, I want to make it easy for you to adjust a basic pattern to highlight the yarn. Without further ado, I’ll show you three alternative yarns I’m planning to knit with this ever-adaptible, reversible, easy-to-memorize pattern!

1. Change the Gauge

This pattern is super easy to adjust to any gauge yarn you’d like to use. With a repeating 6-stitch