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Join us for the 2025 Ambah’s Festive KAL and knit yourself a gorgeous Cowl!.

Grab some mini-skeins of yarn and whip up this fun project. It will be a fun addition to your cool-weather wardrobe and a perfect gift for someone special. Designed to use minis from festive yarn kits or those gorgeous yarn sets gathered over the year, the How Now Funky Cowl is also perfect to use up those teeny balls left over from your favourite projects. Fade it, work your colours in a more random order, alternate two colours for stripes or choose a main colour with some colour pops thrown in along the way!
Choose between DK and Fingering weight yarn and a long or short loop and enjoy a colourful knitting adventure!

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Fingering: S, L (DK: S, L)
Circumference: 24, 48 (24, 48)“/60, 120 (60, 120) cm
Width: 12, 12 (12, 12)”/30, 30 (30, 30) cm

YARN
Fingering (DK) weight
12, 24 (12, 24) mini skeins, each skein consisting of 40, 40 (30, 30) yd/ 37, 37 (27.5, 27.5) m.
Colours will be referred to as C1 through C12, C24 (C12, C24).
Or a total of: 480, 960 (360, 720) yd/439, 878 (330, 660) m.

Option: Hold fingering weight yarn double. Note you’ll need double the DK yardage.

Samples shown in:
Fingering, Short: Miss Babs, Yummy 2-ply, (fingering weight, 100% superwash Merino, 400 yd/365 m per 110 g), C1 - C12, Blushing, Softly, Frasquita, Foxglove, Hollyhock, Glimmer, Tulipa, Sweet Gum, Petit Fours, Bougainvillea (2 colours worked twice)
Long: Sunshine Yarns, Classic Sock (fingering weight, 100% superwash Merino, 425 yd/389 m per 115 g), C1 - C24: Atoll Halfvent Set, each colour worked twice for 24
DK, Short: Miami Fiber Co, Round Sock, (fingering weight, 100% superwash Merino, 87 yd/80 m per 20 g) C1 - C12: Macabre Mini-Skein Set (held double for DK weight)
Long: The Wandering Flock, Merino DK, (DK weight, 100% extra fine superwash Merino wool, 230 yd/210 m per 100 g), C1: Red Rust
Spincycle Yarns, Dream State, (DK/light worsted weight, 100% superwash American wool, 150 yd/137 m per skein), C2: The Family Jewels, Melancholia

NEEDLES
2 x US 5 (8)/3.75 (5) mm needles, or size required to obtain gauge

NOTIONS
1 removable stitch marker, waste yarn for provisional cast on, tapestry needle

GAUGE
21 (18) sts and 48 (36) rows = 4”/10 cm in Garter stitch, blocked
Gauge is not crucial for this project, but variations will affect yardage and final measurements.