Cozy Cabled Cowl- Free Crochet Pattern

**Below you will find the free pattern for the Cozy Cabled Cowl. If you would like a concise, ad-free version, you can purchase the inexpensive PDF from our Etsy shop here.** For the step-by-step picture tutorial of how to make this cowl, check out our blog post here.
Earlier this year I shared the free pattern for this Murphy Slouchy Beanie. It’s been one of my favorite patterns that I’ve made to date, so I was pretty excited when my dear aunt asked me to make 3 of them for herself and her 2 sisters. I chose a super soft acrylic yarn to make the beanies but was just shy of completing the hats with just one skein (yarn chicken is a favorite past time of mine, and I lose more often then not). LOL!
Since I had almost a whole skein left after completing the beanies, I immediately started brainstorming a pattern I could make quickly with the remaining yarn. Hence, this Cozy Cabled Cowl was born.
It’s the same design pattern I used on the Murphy Slouchy, so you can make the set with just 2 skeins of yarn as well!
The most complex part of this cowl is the cabling, but if you’ve ever worked in post stitches before, you should have no issue making this cowl!
If you want to swatch it out but not have to frog all your hard work, check out this Easy Cabled Mug Cozy pattern! This cowl is worked almost exactly the same just longer with a different amount of normal stitches worked amongst the post stitches.
Of course, you could always check out my blog post on this Cozy Cabled Cowl here for additional help as well. 🙂
What You’ll Need
Medium weight (4) soft Acrylic yarn- I used Red Heart Soft- approximately 134g (or 2 full skeins if you want to make the cowl with the Murphy Slouchy)
6.0 MM crochet hook
embroidery/ darning needle
scissors
Completed Measurements
26.5″ circumference
6.5″ wide
Gauge Used
15 dc sts= 4″
10 rows= 4″
Abbreviations Used
ch= chain
dc= double crochet
WS= wrong side [of cowl]
RS= right side [of cowl]
bpdc= back post double crochet
sk= skip
fpdc= front post double crochet
fptc= front post treble crochet
st= stitch
fo= fasten off
yo= yarn over
pu= pull up
Special Stitches
Back Post Double Crochet: yo, insert hook in front of post (from back to front) yo, pull through 2 loops on hook, yo and pull through 2 remaining loops
front post double crochet: yo, insert hook behind post (from front to back), yo, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through 2 remaining loops
front post treble crochet: yarn over twice, insert hook behind post (from front to back), yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through remaining 2 loops
Pattern
Foundation: ch 30
Row 1 (RS): starting in 4th ch from hook, dc across, turn (27)
Row 2 (WS): ch 2, dc 2, bpdc 2, dc, bpdc 2, dc 2, bpdc 9, dc 2, bpdc 2, dc, bpdc 2, dc 2, turn (27)
Row 3 (RS): ch 2, dc 2, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc 2, sk 3, fptc 3 in next 3, fptc in front into 3 sk sts, fpdc 3, dc 2, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc 2, turn (27)
Row 4 (WS): ch 2, dc 2, bpdc 2, dc , bpdc 2, dc 2, bpdc 9, dc2, bpdc 2, dc, bpdc 2, dc 2, turn (27)
Row 5 (RS): ch 2, dc 2, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc 2, fpdc 3, sk 3 sts, fptc 3 in next 3, fptc behind into the 3 sk sts, dc 2, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc, sk 1, fpdc in next, fpdc in front into sk st, dc 2
Row 6-65: repeat rows 2-5 15 more times, fo and join ends together with mattress stitch.
Thats all there is to it! I hope you enjoyed making this delightful Cozy Cabled Cowl as much as I did. 🙂
Super cute pattern, thanks! I’m curious though, row 2 says27 stitches at the end but the number of stitches in the pattern equals29 stitches. Can you clarify?
Aww thanks so much Katie! I’m wondering if you’re maybe counting the starting ch2 in your count? I keep getting 27 when I add it all up. I did make a recent correction to row 5 that did have a typo adding up to 29, but don’t see the same error on row 2. Either way, you should end with 27 completed stitches for each row of the Cowl. Hope this helps! 🙂
It’s not adding up for me. Row 4 has at the end 27 stitches but row 5 needs 29 stitches to complete.
Hi Jaclyn,
Thanks so much for reaching out! I totally missed a typo when testing and proofing the pattern (there was an extra “ch 2, dc 2” written in before the last simple cable). Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention! It has been corrected which should help clear things up. 🙂
Best Regards,
Bernadette