My stitches were too loose using the recommended US 9 5.5 mm so I switched to US 8 5.0 mm to meet gauge. I started the project and found I made a mistake about 14 rows in so I had to frog it to restart. I am LOVING the fact I made a mistake because my floats look SO much better on the second attempt!!

Needles Used: KnitPicks Caspian Interchangeable Short Needles, using US 5.0 mm need tips on the special cable to get a 16 inch circular needle.

I am not good at whipstitching, so I decided I would do the single crochet border with the mattress stitch to join the two ends together.

I used my Clover Amour G hook 4.00 mm and I single crocheted all the way around each end of the cowl. Then I slip stitched the last single crochet to the first single crochet. Then I used the mattress stitch to join the two edges together. I learned the hard way that this is not the best seam for this project… but live and learn. I love how it looks but it is a bit stiffer than I had hoped for this project… you can rub your hands on it and feel the seam compared to the rest of the cowl. I really need to learn how to seam in knitting. I am pretty good in crochet but my knitting skills are needing some improvement. I absolutely loved testing this pattern for Mary. I am very happy with my cowl and I hope to make more in the future!

I used this video tutorial for mattress stitch seam: Mattress Stitch Seam

Started with new skeins (113 grams a skein) and this is how much I had leftover:

Red leftover: 25 grams, so I used 88 grams of Red

White leftover: 35 grams, so I used 78 grams of White