{"title":"How to Crochet a Cowl","canonicalUrl":"https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/crochet/how-to-crochet-a-cowl","category":{"slug":"crochet","name":"Crochet"},"creator":{"name":"Sigoni Macaroni","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Lr-M430KJGwGTSLR8cgnQ","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2b6qSA4r8"},"tldr":"Crochet a cowl in the round with bulky yarn and the mini bean stitch. Round by round counts, sizing tips and a trick to stop twisting.","quickAnswer":"Crochet a cowl in the round with bulky yarn and the mini bean stitch. An easy project: about 3 hours. Materials cost about $8 to $12. You need 5 things, including 6.5 mm crochet hook, tapestry needle and scissors. The 9 steps start with make a Slip Knot and Chain 81 for the Crochet Cowl, single Crochet Across the Cowl Foundation Chain and fold the Cowl Into a Ring and Slip Stitch to Join.","totalDurationSeconds":435,"videoDurationSeconds":435,"difficulty":"easy","project":{"difficulty":"easy","projectMinutes":180,"waitMinutes":null,"totalMinutes":180,"estimatedCost":{"currency":"USD","min":8,"max":12},"yield":"1 cowl"},"tools":["6.5 mm crochet hook","tapestry needle","scissors","stitch marker"],"materials":["bulky weight 5 yarn, 1 skein"],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Make a Slip Knot and Chain 81 for the Crochet Cowl","text":"Put a slip knot on your 6.5 mm hook and chain 81. Keep the chains loose and even. A tight foundation chain pulls in the bottom of the cowl and makes it hard to slide over your head. Count as you go, or drop a stitch marker every 20 chains so you are not counting all 81 twice."},{"number":2,"title":"Single Crochet Across the Cowl Foundation Chain","text":"Skip the first chain and insert your hook into the second chain from the hook. Yarn over, pull up a loop so you have two loops on the hook, then yarn over and pull through both. That is a single crochet. Work one in every chain to the end. You should have 80 stitches in this flat row."},{"number":3,"title":"Fold the Cowl Into a Ring and Slip Stitch to Join","text":"Bring the two ends of the row together so it forms a circle. Look along the bottom edge and make sure it is not twisted anywhere. Then insert your hook into the very first single crochet, yarn over, and pull through the stitch and the loop on your hook. The cowl is now a ring and you work in rounds from here."},{"number":4,"title":"Crochet the First Mini Bean Stitch for the Cowl","text":"Chain 2 and skip the first single crochet. Insert your hook in the next stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over again, insert into the same stitch, yarn over and pull up another loop. You now have four loops on the hook. Yarn over and pull through all four, then chain 1 to lock it. That is one mini bean."},{"number":5,"title":"Skip a Stitch and Mini Bean Around the Cowl","text":"Skip the next stitch and work a mini bean into the one after it. Keep going around: skip one, mini bean in the next. When you reach the last two stitches, skip one and work your final bean into the last stitch. The texture starts to show right away, a row of small puffed knots with little gaps between them."},{"number":6,"title":"Check the Cowl Is Not Twisted and Close Round 2","text":"Before you join, look at the whole ring. Sigoni found hers twisted at this point and had to set it right, so check yours. Once it lies flat, slip stitch into the top of the chain 2 from the start of the round. You should have 40 mini beans. Count them now, since a wrong count here repeats in every round."},{"number":7,"title":"Turn and Work Mini Beans Into the Spaces for Round 3","text":"Chain 2 and turn your work. Now each mini bean goes into a space, not a stitch. Look for the small gap between two beans of the round below and work your bean there. Repeat in every space around, then slip stitch to the top of the chain 2. Turning each round keeps the join neat and stops the seam from drifting."},{"number":8,"title":"Repeat the Mini Bean Rounds to Grow the Cowl","text":"Keep repeating round 3: chain 2, turn, one mini bean in each space, slip stitch to join. Sigoni works 32 rounds in all. With a color changing yarn like Scarfie, the cowl fades from one shade to the next as it grows. Stop when it is as tall as you want. The finished fabric should feel thick and cosy."},{"number":9,"title":"Single Crochet Around the Top Edge of the Cowl","text":"After the last bean round, slip stitch to join, chain 1 and turn. Single crochet into the base of the chain, the chain 1 of each bean and the top of each bean, all the way around. You end with 80 stitches, matching the bottom edge. Slip stitch to join, tie off and weave in both tails with a tapestry needle."}],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-10-14T13:41:25.696Z","published":"2026-10-14T13:41:25.386Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit Show Me Step by Step with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure. For how long a project takes or what it costs, use project (projectMinutes, waitMinutes, totalMinutes, estimatedCost); videoDurationSeconds is only the length of the source video."}