I’ve noticed a lot of knitters are nervous about choosing colors themselves. This pattern was designed to allow knitters complete freedom.

Each time you knit a repeat you can choose a different selection of colors. Be bold, be experimental, have fun and don’t rip it back if you think it’s not working! If you have a palette of colors that look nice all together then your finished cowl will look lovely, even if some of the individual combinations don’t quite hit the mark. This makes it ideal as a swatching project or just as a tool to explore color combinations. The Miniballs are perfect for this, a Shetland-type yarn spun in Scotland that is perfect for colorwork and available in loads of colors. However, you can also use scraps of fingering weight yarn as you don’t need much of each color.

This cowl is knitted in the round as a tube and the ends seamed or grafted. The same motif is repeated throughout with different color combinations.

This sample uses 15 Miniballs in different colours, you can use a larger or smaller palette - whatever you prefer.