This is a fun small project to use as an introduction to assigned pooling or to use up the leftover yarn from another assigned pooling project. It combines two assigned pooling stitches—a bobble stitch (dots) and a double-elongated stitch (squiggles).

It’s knit flat so that the squiggles are vertical, and there’s some room for creativity here. It includes making small buttonholes and sewing on buttons. If this is the first time you have made buttonholes in knitting, don’t worry. These small buttonholes are quite simple to make.

Needles and Notions
Size 4 needles, straight or circular
Six 17 mm/two-thirds inch buttons
Two stitch markers

Yarn
20 to 25 grams of a sock-weight yarn dyed for assigned pooling. The colorway I used for the sample is my Monet’s Water Lilies colorway in Sock Perfection.

Measurements
The final cowl was 8 inches tall and 18 inches in length after blocking.

Assigned Pooling Colorways
Assigned pooling refers to a dye technique. The yarn is dyed with about ¼ of the circumference in one color or set of colors (called the assigned color) and about ¾ of the circumference in a distinctly different color or set of colors (called the background color).

This type of yarn can then be used to knit and crochet fascinating patterns that make use of the specially dyed yarn.

Abbreviations, Terms, and Stitches Used
Assigned Color – The section of the skein that takes about ¼ of the circumference
Background Color – The section of the skein that takes the other ¾ of the circumference
Berry Bobble (see instructions below)
CO – cast on (I used the knit cast-on)
K – knit
K2tog – knit 2 stitches together
K2tog through the back loop – knit 2 stitches together through the back loop
KFB – knit front and back
P – purl
P2tog – purl 2 stitches together
RS – right side of the work
S1 – slip one stitch as if to purl with the yarn in back
WS – wrong side of the work
YO – yarn over

Difficulty Level
Advanced beginner