Kismet Cowl by Rachel Illsley - a colourwork DK weight cowl from Rachel Illsley
Earlier this year we were very excited about the Kismet sweater by Rachel Illsley of Unwind Knitwear as it included our yarn, which is such an honour. Kismet is a colourwork sweater using four colours and small intricate patterns inspired by composer Alexis Ffrench. You can find the pattern for it sweater HERE. The sweater used Oakworth 4ply in Driftwood with three other 4ply/fingering weight yarns and so naturally we created yarn packs for it which you can find HERE. Our Oakworth 4ply yarn packs sold out but Milburn 4ply packs are still available now. This set is the closest colour match...
Project ideas for DK Yarnlings™
As well as our 4ply Yarnlings we have DK ones too. These are 10g balls of yarn as we thought that doing 5g of DK seemed too small to be worth it. That means they have approximately 22m in each one - that will vary according to the yarn base though. Here are some ideas as to what to do with them (aside from just keep them looking cute in a jar)...  Quadratic by David O'Kelly (Knitting) The original Yarnling project!! This pattern is written for both 4ply and DK yarns. It is a simple squishy triangular shawl pattern...
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More mini skein pattern ideas
It has been quite a while since we last gave you suggestions of patterns that use mini skeins so we thought we'd take another look at this. We hope it's inspiring and helpful! Our previous posts contain Ravelry links so please be wary when looking back at them.  Riverside Walks by Victoria Magnus Combining our fluffy alpaca lacewight yarn, Lowther Lace with a sparkly mini skein fade set this striking shawl combines simple stitch bands with lace details to draw the eye.    Dathan pullover by Kate Davies Made using 15 x 25g balls of a tweed yarn...
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Project: An unexpected collection of Nimbus Cowls
 This is a little tale about a couple of dog walkers who are also knitters and really really love knitting and wearing cowls…  The thing is with cowls is that when you’re dogwalking and you bend down to clip the dogs leads on etc a cowl won’t flap about or get in the way like scarves do. I’ve long been a fan. Way before they were on-trend ;)  ECY yarn-enabler Debbie is the same. And she came to work one day with this gorgeous project - a cowl made using grey 4ply (Tempo 4ply) held double with pink fluffy...
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Swainby Cowl: a versatile wardrobe staple
This cowl idea stemmed from me wanting to make something squishy for around my neck using three strands of yarn together, but also not wanting to leave much (if anything) left over. I pored over stitch textures and options for ages as I knew I wanted something fairly simple which would allow the marled colours to shine, but also which wouldn’t be too boring to knit. There are already loads of (lovely) patterns in traditional fisherman’s rib so this is a different take on that. The full-sized cowl is designed to loop three times snug around the neck if you’ve...