Soléa began with a feeling, a memory of sunlight filtering through leaves, the kind of brightness that softens everything it touches. I shared with A Verb for Keeping Warm a vision: something peachy, radiant, and quietly joyful. They transformed that idea into a glowing, sun-kissed hand-dyed colorway that matched my imagination perfectly.

With just one skein, I wanted to create something light yet intentional, where each stitch holds a bit of that brightness. Soléa combines slipped stitches, airy lace, and delicate cables into a textured fabric that feels full of movement, like light dancing across a surface.

This design is about the harmony between color and form, the magic that happens when inspiration meets the perfect yarn. For me, Soléa is a quiet celebration of intuition, collaboration, and the joy of turning a vision into something tangible, stitch by stitch.

NOTE
This is a one skein cowl project. Use any 100 g fingering weight
yarn and work until your desired length or until the yarn runs
out.

MEASUREMENTS
Circumference: 49.5” / 124 cm
Width: 8” / 20 cm

YARN
Rumor by A Verb For Keeping Warm (70% superwash merino,
30% silk, 438 yds / 400 m / 100 g)
1 skein of colorway Palomino.
Or approximately 438 yds / 400 m of fingering weight yarn.

NEEDLES
2 sets of US 6 / 4.0 mm 32” / 80 cm circular needles.

NOTIONS
2 cable needles, tapestry needle, waste yarn for provisional cast-
on.

GAUGE
48 sts x 64 rows to 6.5” / 16.5 cm on US 6 / 4.0 mm
needles in sts 7-14 of 8-Row Chart pattern, after blocking,
or size to obtain gauge.

CONSTRUCTION
The cowl begins with a provisional CO, then is worked flat
from end to end, then both ends are grafted together to
form a loop.