Forty miles east of Portland on the Columbia River, the Bonneville Dam was built to power New Deal economic development for humans but presented a literally insurmountable barrier for fish. Fish ladders were built to help hundreds of thousands of salmon and other fish make their spawning runs upriver each year.

Evoking the stair-step structure of the fish ladders, this cowl uses a triple-crochet stitch and long chains to create a loose, airy, netlike fabric — more suitable for catching well-accessorized humans than speeding salmon.

Designed by Anna Leander, this pattern was originally published as Twisted’s crochet contribution to the 2018 Rose City Yarn Crawl. Photos of the cowl on a model are © Rose City Yarn Crawl.

Cowl shown in Blue Moon Fiber Arts Super Sparkle, colorway Smoke On the Water.

The Fish Ladder Cowl Crochet pattern is also available separately as a PDF download from Twisted or from Ravelry for $6.

This kit contains materials to make one cowl.

Pattern

• Fish Ladder Cowl by Anna Leander for Twisted
• PDF Download - After ordering this product you will be emailed a unique link to download a PDF of this pattern.
• Your pattern download link will be emailed when the physical part of your kit is packaged up. This lets us make sure everything is hunky-dory a-okay peachy-keen with the whole kit before finalizing the pattern sale. :)
• If you don't see the pattern download email soon after receiving the "a shipment from order is on the way" email, please check your spam folder. If you still don't see it, just drop us a line and we'll be happy to re-send it!
• Please save the PDF to your own device in a place where you'll be able to find it. You will be able to download the PDF 3 times.

Yarn

• One skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Super Sparkle
• Yarn comes unwound in the original hank unless you add winding above

Packaging

• Kit will be packaged in eco-friendly kraft paper.

Crochet Hook

• I/9-5.5 mm (or size needed to get correct gauge)

Notions

• Darning Needle

This yarn is dyed by hand and will vary from skein to skein and batch to batch. Each one is an unique work of art full of subtle variation and beauty, so your skein will differ from the one pictured. To achieve the most even possible color distribution, consider alternating skeins while working your project.

Please buy enough for your entire project all at once. We will do our best to select skeins from the same dye lot or, if there is no dye lot, skeins that visually match. If you add multiple skeins of the same yarn to your cart you'll be prompted at checkout to select how to proceed if we have concerns about skeins matching.

While colors shown are accurate to the best of our ability, computer monitors and dye lots both vary so the skeins you receive may differ from what is shown.