Sometimes you find a yarn that you just want to knit - allowing it to be the star of the show.

When I found this long-change gradient Ombre DK from Madrigal Yarns I immediately had a design in mind for it.

It knits up super quickly - in fact the cowl is so named because I knit it in about 12 hrs in the course of the Spring Equinox. Partly because the short, 7st lace repeat pattern is straightforward to memorise and partly because watching the colour changes happen is so much fun.

This pattern would work well with solid or semi-solid colourways as well as other long-change gradients such as those from Noro.

The cowl is knit in the round - so no seaming required at the end.

MATERIALS:

4 mm circular needle (60cm cable length).

1 x 100g Madrigal Yarns Ombre DK 100% superwash BFL, 200m/219yds. Colour Ombrolivia.

GAUGE: 22 stitches x 28 rows = 10cm/4" in stocking stitch, blocked.

SIZE: 22.9" circumference x 9.1" depth (58 x 23cm).