Introducing VERSACIKNITS Op-Art Cowls!

For the past few years, I have been exploring 2-color slip-stitch patterns without knowing exactly what I would do with the designs when they were done. Once I was happy with 3 designs, I hung the swatches on my “swatch board” and waited for the magic moment when their purpose would become clear to me.

My “ah ha” moment came when I was going back through my “ideas” book and found a photo of a dickey with a hood and I realized that these designs could become “hoodie cowls”! It just so happened that I also had a dozen or so skeins of Plucky Knitter™ yarns staring at me from a basket in my studio. I picked these yarns up last winter at Michelle Wang’s Gauge X Tension pop-up store in Brooklyn, where I was lucky enough to meet Sarah Dimond and the whole Plucky gang. I fell in love with the sinful luxuriousness and glorious colorways of their yarns and knew that I just had to work with them. And so, the cowls came to life!

I have to admit that I am not an accomplished colorwork knitter — I just don’t seem to be able to work efficiently with 2 strands of yarn at the same time! But I find that slip-stitch knitting is a wonderful way to produce beautiful colorwork patterns while still working with only one yarn at a time. While there are many beautiful pattern stitches worked in this manner (Barbara Walker’s Mosaic Knitting, for example), the ones that I use here purposefully vary the location of the slipped stitches in order to produce combinations of vertical, slanted and curved lines. This creates “optical illusions” reminiscent of the Op-Art movement from the 1960’s.

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This collection includes 4 different op-art patterned cowls based on geometric shapes, each of which has a different border treatment. The cowls are shown in three different Plucky Knitter™ yarns: Cashmere, Bello and Primo Fingering, each containing enough cashmere to feel fabulous against your skin. The designs can be knit either as hoodie cowls or neck cowls. Instructions are provided for the cowls as shown and for the individual patterns and borders. So, it will be very easy for the adventurous knitter to customize her own version by altering the border, length, circumference or number of colors used! So, mix it up and have fun!

All of us at VERSACIKNITS hope that you enjoy these patterns and that you are inspired to create your own, beautiful cowls!