I know, I know, everything is a fade right now, but what can I say? I love them. Watching your project shift from one colorway to the next, carefully selecting the best skeins to blend from one to the other, so much fun.
The one drawback to me is that all these projects are freakin’ huge, and usually knit with sock yarn no less! Listen I love an enormous and time consuming shawl as much as the next guy (probably more if I’m honest) but sometimes you just need to rage knit out a project quickly to feel accomplished.
Thus, my new cowl “Fade your Face Off”
(my original name was “Not Everything Has to be a Fade, Becky!” but I thought it would take too long to type)

“Fade Your Face Off” uses 3 different colors of bulky weight yarn to accomplish the same gratifying fade, but in considerably less time. (Like, much much much less, like I finished mine in a day.) Additionally, I worked some magical mathematics to increase the likelihood of pooling to really show off your feature colorway in the middle.

I used Cross Creek Super bulky in 3 different colors.
Color A: Wales – Welsh Slate
Color B: Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son
Color C: Four – Twenty

Notes:

1. Exact yardages may vary between skeins. It’s possible that even with the same gauge you may run out early. I’m going to need you to not panic if that happens. You can either cut the section you’re working on short, or you can change color in the middle of the round, it won’t make much of a difference to the finished size of your cowl, and the color shift won’t be immediately visible in the seed stitch.
2. My colors pooled, which was intentional. Not every variegated yarn will pool, but the cast on and gauge of this pattern is likely to result in the yarns pooling in a similar way. If you want to make sure that your yarn pools (or doesn’t) you should check out http://plannedpooling.com