Knit Slanted Stripes with Gauge Dye Works

Full Spectrum colourway of Gauge Dye Works yarn knit into a Slanted Stripes Cowl

I’ve really loved collaborating with Gauge Dye Works on our summer clubs. We’ve created three club collections so far, and two of them are now available for everyone, Knit Outside and Angles + Light. One thing I love about our work together is when we come up with sort of tangential ideas that combine the work we’ve done in different ways. Today’s example: Catherine (the yarnie behind Gauge Dye Works) knit up a sample of my Slanted Stripes Cowl in a few different colourways including one from Angles + Light, Full Spectrum. The original Slanted Stripes requires changing yarns as you work to get progressively wider chevron stripes. But with self-striping yarns, all you have to do is remember to work your increases and decreases at the appropriate time and a gorgeous striping chevron pattern appears!

The original Slanted stripes sample in Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool and Versus

Slanted Stripes in Gauge Dye Works Full Spectrum

Here’s How

To work a Slanted Stripes cowl with a self-striping yarn, just cast on as directed in the pattern and work the shaping described in the Setup Round and Rounds 1 and 2. Then, instead of changing yarns, just watch your cowl magically create gorgeous chevron stripes!

Here are a couple other examples of Slanted Stripes in Gauge Dye Works yarn. Catherine used Azurite C in the sample on the let and leftover scraps from different Azurite Collection yarns or the sample on the right.

Slanted Stripes in Gauge Dye Works Azurite C Classic

For a Slanted Stripes that uses up scraps, as shown in the project on the right, Catherine just arranged her Azurite Collection scraps in an order she found pleasing, then switched to the next one whenever she ran out of the previous one, and bound off when her cowl was about 24.5 in/62 m, the length specified in the pattern.

The only colourway shown in this post that’s available to purchase right now is Full Spectrum, but if you’ve got some skeins or even leftover scraps of Gauge Dye Works in your stash, this a great project to pull them out for. And be sure you’re signed up for the Gauge newsletter so you know when new colourways are added to their shop.

Get the Slanted Stripes pattern here on my website or over on Ravelry if you'd like to keep it in your Rav library.