This makes a squishy comfy cowl out of all of your small scraps of leftover fingering yarn. I personally made this out of leftovers in 24 colours from my advent skeins after I completed my Kuschelig Wrap.

The amount of yarn used can vary a lot – you could use less than 350 yards if you want a shorter, lighter springtime cowl, and you could use way more than 450 for a dense, warm cowl. The yarn I used is part cashmere, so it was lighter and squishier so easier to knit a longer cowl. Just knit until you hit the length you’re aiming for.

This just needs any fingering weight yarn (no need to use a cashmere blend like I did!). You can definitely mix and match different yarn types, and even slight differences in weight / gauge, but this might create some variation in texture and tension, so I wouldn’t vary weight too widely. I think this would look really cool with speckled, hand-dyed, or gradient yarn for lots of variety!

The cowl uses helix knitting to get jogless 1-round stripes, and lets you just keep knitting until you’re all out of yarn, so you can use (almost) every last inch of yarn in your cowl! I also include some tips for weaving in the ends as you go, so you don’t need to spend hours weaving in the ends at the end.