This design comes from deep in the archives, but now is still a perfect time for it. It’s worked in the round using a wonderfully soft hand-dyed yarn and designed to show off that yarn at its best.
You can use any fingering-weight yarn you want, but be aware that the pattern as written uses almost all of a 4oz. skein and you may have to make the cowl a bit shorter if you use one 3.5oz. skein (it’ll still be plenty cozy).