Resistance Garden Cowl Kit

“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.” Ursula K. Le Guin

This bottom-up knit cowl was designed to evoke images of community care and resistance, such as the community gardens planted both for sustenance and to foster hope and connection. 

Receive a digital download of the Resistance Garden Cowl pattern and a kit of Woolstok Worsted yarn to replicate Ashley's variation of the cowl. Ashley recommends knitting on US6 24" circular needle. 

This is a pre-order item.
Kits will ship the week of March 15.

All proceeds from the sale of this kit benefit the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Pattern designed by Elizabeth Chase of @thekindlywool.

While we tend to think of dandelions as weeds, in the language of flowers dandelions symbolise resilience, survival, and the fulfillment of wishes; dandelions have also been used in traditional medicine for centuries. The name originated from the Latin Dens leonis, or Lion’s tooth, before being translated as “dent de lion” in a sixteenth-century edition of Virgil’s Aeneid. We see them clinging tenaciously, able to thrive almost anywhere. Meanwhile, daffodils – perennial bulbs that divide and redivide – are often one of the first flowers to bloom after winter, symbolizing rebirth, new beginnings, and joy. In her novel Camilla, Madeleine L’Engle wrote: “A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.” This pattern combines the daffodil and the dandelion with roots fashioned after the US electrical symbol for a resistor (see above).

The pattern download includes instructions for two variations:

• Version A (Resist Motif): A fingering weight version with the “Resist” motif, flowers, and resistance roots
• Version B (Floral): A worsted weight Floral version featuring the flowers and resistance roots for those who may need a more subtle statement. 

You should be familiar with knitting and purling in the round, two-stranded colorwork, and tacking floats.  The pattern includes a knit rib on either edge, a center section of stranded-colorwork, and the option to add a Latvian braid between the ribbing and colorwork on each end.