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Remember going to the amusement park when you were a kid? Cotton candy, scary roller coasters, and best of all, the Gravitron, which spun you around until you felt like you were floating in mid-air, or at least your stomach was? Until the motion sickness set in, you were carefree, buoyant and full of joy. Recapture that floaty feeling as you sw...

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This cozy cowl has a different pattern on each side, both made to resemble the intricate patterns used in henna tattoos.

Do you ever buy a skein or two of multi-colored or semi-solid yarn and then have no idea how to use it? This cowl was designed as a way to break up the colors in the yarn, showing them off beautifully. The stitch pattern is easy and squishy, and looks equally good in variegated and tonal yarn.

The parabola is one of those mathematical ideas that actually have real-life occurrences: a bouncing ball will form a parabolic arc in the air; the streams from water fountains shape themselves into parabolas; suspension bridge cables also follow parabola-shaped curves.