Time for a freebie don't you think?  This is a quick fun knit and I hope you enjoy making it as much as I did.  I used <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/debbie-bliss-donegal-chunky-tweed">Debbie Bliss Donegal Chunky Tweed</a> and of course it has been discontinued.

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<a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/dsc_0492/" rel="attachment wp-att-1269"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1269" title="DSC_0492" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DSC_0492-470x500.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="500" /></a>

I originally knit this up in <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/madelinetosh-tosh-bulky">Madelinetosh Bulky</a> the one I bought from <a href="http://www.imagiknit.com/cgi/commerce.cgi?display=home">Imagiknit</a> on my visit to San Francisco, but I call that one the "prototype."  That's what I call everything that didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to the first time.  Anyway that yarn too has been discontinued.... of course.  Don't you hate that?   As soon as you discover a yarn and fall in love with it, its discontinued!

Another great yarn for this project would be (one of my favorites) - <a href="http://blueskyalpacas.com/yarns/worsted-hand-dyes/">Blue Sky Alpacas Worsted Hand Dyes</a> (keep in mind this yarn is not a worsted).  You would only have to use one hank of each color of this yarn to make the cowl.  Some good color combinations would be:
<p style="text-align: left;">                                                       Charcoal with Lagoon</p>
<a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/charcoal/" rel="attachment wp-att-1281"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1281" title="Charcoal" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Charcoal-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a>    <a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/lagoon/" rel="attachment wp-att-1282"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1282" title="Lagoon" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Lagoon-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a>

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<p style="text-align: left;">                                                     or Rusty Orange with Putty</p>
<a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/rusty-orange/" rel="attachment wp-att-1284"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1284" title="Rusty Orange" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Rusty-Orange-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a>   <a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/putty/" rel="attachment wp-att-1283"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1283" title="Putty" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Putty-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a>

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This is a fun pattern to choose colors for because one of the colors is your dominant color and the other one is a "peek-a-boo" color.  But if you turn your cowl inside out then your peek-a-boo color becomes your dominant color and then there is just a little pop of the other color on the edges.

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<a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/dsc_0091-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-1271"><img title="DSC_0091" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DSC_0091-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="196" /></a>    <a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/dsc_0123/" rel="attachment wp-att-1272"><img title="DSC_0123" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DSC_0123-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="197" /></a>    <a href="http://graceakhrem.com/2012/02/the-beekeepers-cowl/dsc_0084/" rel="attachment wp-att-1270"><img title="DSC_0084" src="http://graceakhrem.com/wpdev/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DSC_0084-250x250.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="196" /></a>

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Have fun knitting this cowl, and hopefully you can get a little wear out of it before it gets too warm!  See the link below for the free pattern!