What happens when you mix a bunch of different colors with a few different stitch textures on the same knit cowl? Something like the Dice Cowl from Audrey Borrego.
This sock yarn stash buster is perfect for using up the leftover bits from other projects, or finally using that advent calendar yarn or set of mini skeins you’ve had in your stash forever.
The pattern includes two sizes for a cowl that’s worked in the round, and it includes five stitch patterns: stockinette, garter stitch, bobbles, feather and fan and eyelet stripes. There’s no real pattern to it other than explaining the set up and how to do the stitch patterns (which are given in words as well as charts).
It’s suggested you could make this a year long (or six month long, for the smaller version) daily practice by working a round a day, or you can knit it more quickly, which I’m sure you’ll want to once you start playing with colors.
There are no rules for how often you switch among the patterns, or indeed if you even do, but I like the idea of making it into a game, which you could do lots of different ways.
You could, for example, decide you want to change patterns every time you change colors, or every inch, or based on the Fibonacci sequence or the numbers in a special date or the code for a person’s name.
You can go through the patterns in order or literally roll the dice to figure out which pattern to use next. (Yes, dice have six sides and there are only five options. Pick another stitch pattern to add or make 6 mean continue in the pattern you’ve been working. Reverse stockinette stitch might be fun.)
This project is available as a free pattern on Ravelry. While you’re there, check out the pattern gallery to see the different ways others have interpreted this design.
[Photo: Audrey Borrego]
