What to do with 3 left over skeins of Noro Madara (60% Wool, 30% Silk, 10% Alpaca, 100 g, 200 m/219 yds)? The answer is to make a pair of wrist warmers and a cowl; Masaye.

Of course the preferred pattern of choice was another cable pattern, this time one I discovered in one of the four stitch dictionaries by Barbara Walker – all with the name Treasury of Knitting Patterns and the number in front.

Here is the introduction I wrote to the pattern: Masaye means blessed in Japanese, as wearing this set of cowl and wrist warmers hopefully will make you feel. The generous cowl, adorned with a fun cross cable, can be worn folded down or standing straight and will warm your neck on a cold day. The matching wrist warmers completes the accessory wintery outfit. Masaye is knitted in the lovely wool and silk yarn Madara from Noro.

Michael has not photographed me wearing the set, but these photos will come later. Here is model Ammal Ahmed Haj Mohamed, with make-up & hair by Hina Suleman, wearing Masaye. Photographer Eivind Røhne captured these amazing photos at Galleri Würth.

Both the cowl and the wrist warmers are worked from the bottom and up in the round using a 4.5 mm/US 7 circular needle with an 18 stitches and 27 rounds gauge in stockinette stitch measuring 10 cm/4 inches after blocking in one size. You can easily adjust the size by adding a cable repeat, if you want to. I used 2 skeins (or a bit more than 1,5 for the cowl and 1 for the wrist warmers). I prefer to fold both the bottom and the top of the cowl so it stands like a large collar, but you don’t have to do that of course.

The test knitting of the cowl and/or wrist warmers start on Monday 24th of February in my Ravelry group, with a pattern launch on the 10th of April.