Sharing Creativity Cowl

This project started two plus years ago, it is mostly made from homespun chevoit fiber I dyed in my high school colors of green and gold.  But because I was still learning how to dye fiber, I was using food coloring and mostly Kool-aid.  So rather then a beautiful deep green and gold, I have shades of lime green and lemon yellow.  I still love it.  Then in December 2017 the Thomas Fire broke out in the hills above Ventura.  Burning into the foothills of my home town and areas where my school friends and families lived.  So I started spinning my magic, meditating on good memories and keeping them all safe.  I called this colorway Bonnie Pride, it is 200 grams of a sport weight that I spun this on my Spinolution Pollywog. After that I put it in the stash until I could find the right project for it.

Then came covid19 and using my stash to keep busy became “The Thing” to do.  I liked this project because it was open to yarn weight and yardage.  My homespun is so bright, almost dayglow (very appropriate for a 80s high school themed yarn), but it wasn’t enough yardage alone for the size cowl I wanted and needed more so back to my stash.  The black stripe at the top is also a homespun, soft alpaca gifted to me from a friend.  It gives this project and nice edge since I didn’t want to make the Icord edge the project called for.  Plus it gives me a break from the bright colors right next to my pale skin at my neck.  I love cowls shaped like this because I wear lot of v necks so it keeps me nice n toasty in a long sleeve shirt or as a scarf with a coat.  Sharing Creativity cowl is a project designed by Pamela Kay in A Touch Of Hazel and available on Ravelry