It’s getting mighty chilly up here around the 40th Parallel of the earth’s Northern Hemisphere, leading some (okay, me) to turn our crafting imaginations to scarves and visions in bulky-weight yarn.

A few weeks ago, I got the latest issue of Creative Knitting magazine, and it has a gorgeous cowl in it, knitted in a linen-silk blended sport-weight yarn. It's called the Kaihora Cowl. The photo is ...