Use up your partial skeins of leftover socks yarn. Combine 2 or more of your favourites and enjoy creating this unique neck warmer or cowl. Button in the round for a cowl, or place the buttons along the side to make a neck warmer. You can even make it shorter and create a headband.

The patterns in this series are inspired by the many varieties of coreopsis in our garden. I love to see their bright faces as I take my morning stroll with Pup. Coreopsis flowers are profuse, bright and hard not to notice and even harder not to like in our summer garden. Some have dark green ferny airy leaves that are also highly ornamental even without the flowers. Their blooming season is very long, often lasting well into autumn. The colours can vary widely from cream to yellow, to pink and even lilac. Coreposis “Dream Catcher”, pictured at the bottom of the pattern page is the inspiration for this cowl.

The cowl is worked flat from one end to the other. Buttonholes are worked into the garter stitch edge at the end. Buttons are sewn on either the beginning band or on the side edge to make either a cowl or neck warmer. The cowl is worked on either a single circular needle or on straight needles.

Both charts as well as written instructions are included. A pictoral tutorial is also provided in a separate file.

The sample shown was done with 20g of the MC (darker) and 25g of the painter Fleece Sterling Silver CC (lighter).