I’ve been on a mill ends yarn kick lately! I first found out about them from Stacey over at Freshstitches. It’s made by plying together random mill ends of yarns. What a great way to recycle yarn that would normally end up in the trash. They work up into this wacky combination of colors.
If you pop over to Stacey’s blog, you can download a free cowl pattern.

It’s so much fun to knit these up. Super easy knitting in the round, and a very affordable gift as well. One skein makes one cowl.
I like a snug fit, so I cast on 96. I knit some with a 2 x 2 rib on the cast on and bind off edges. I knit a seed stitch edge on some and a simple rolled edge on others.

To change it up a bit on some, I added an eyelet row when the yarn changes color. When you get to the place where the colors change, add a stitch marker to the right needle, then yarn over, knit 2 together (repeat from) for one round. Remove your stitch marker, then just keep knitting until the next color change.