Every spinner starts their spinning journey with what they get their hands on, learning the ropes, finding what they like, and accumulating a pile of yarn in random lengths and weights with no real purpose for what they’ve spun. Occasionally you can find a hat or cowl pattern that coincidentally fits the yardage or gauge, but never both. Your pile of pretty keeps growing and you keep learning.
When my spinning journey moved out of the realm of spinning to learn and play and into spinning with intent I found a new level of enjoyment. With that enjoyment came a whole new set of challenges that awoke the “dude, that’s going to be hard… HELL YEAH” center in my brain. I wanted to spin yarns with intent for projects that had to also be designed for the yarns that I spun; design² (thanks, Brandy).
This design² was born when my mom tried to steal my Incidental Quest sample one cold evening when we stopped by her house. The yarn for that one being a qiviut and chocolate giant angora 2 ply that is so light, soft, and magical you can’t help but pet it and hold it to your face. Knowing I had more qiviut in my stash of fibers I could create a 3 ply of qiviut, black French angora, and yak/silk/angora blend yarn secretly spun just for her. I started doubting my choices for her yarn so I spun another just in case; white satin angora and cashmere/angora/silk blend 2 ply. Two yarns available allowed me to create this design with the option of being either a cozy cowl or an elegant scarf. Mom gets to choose her birthday gift.

Hook size- D, 3.25 mm
Pattern for gauge- 1 in x 1 in = 6 sc x 7 rows
Yarn- 17 wpi Handspun 1 / fingering weight
Yardage- cowl 300 yds, scarf 450 yds
Beads- 200 grams 6/0 seed beads
Finished size- Cowl approximately 9 x 20 inches, scarf 9 x 63 inches excluding fringe.

Designer’s note:
This pattern was designed for a fine yarn with bloom, specifically angora. The simplicity of the lace is forgiving to the bloom of angora and other “fuzzy” fibers, but also visually interesting enough to work well with sleek fibers like silk and mercerized cotton. All patterns I design for angora yarns are completed in commercial yarn first for finished measurements and yarn quantities then made again with my handspun. For this design the commercial yarn used is Hobbii Cotton Kings 8/4.