Mini Skeins    

  Hopefully you have seen my version of Tin Can Knits' Vivid Blanket. I dyed up lots of colors, wound them into 90 yard skeins and kitted them up.  I  love doing projects like this because it's so satisfying to get a square done. And then you want to do another and another ......

So, I decided to dye more "mini-skeins" and sell them individually -- if you want to make the blanket, you can choose your own colors. Or, if you are doing a project that requires small
 amounts of lots of different colors, this would be a great way to buy yarn.

I'll have the yarn for sale at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show Sept 6-7 at the Hunterdon County Fairgrounds along with plenty of other hand dyed yarns and roving.



Here's a pattern I just wrote that uses 8 different colors of the mini skeins -- you could probably make 2 or 3 cowls using this yarn.

FEATHER AND FAN COWL

Materials: 8 colors of Woolbearers' Mini skeins.

Color A: Red/Black

Color B: Deep Magenta

Color C: Wine Rose

Color D: Med Grey

Color E: Light Grey

Color F: Pink Magenta

Color G: Light Pink

Color H: Dark Charcoal

Needles:  Size 5 16" circular needles

Begin with color A,  Work first 6 rows of scarf and then change to color B and work 8 rows of pattern (or 2 repeats), do the same for Colors C through G.  Work last 6 rows with Color H.

Cast on 154.  Place marker, join to work in the round.

Setup rows:

Row 1:  Knit

Row 2: Purl

Feather and Fan Pattern:

Row 1:* (K 2 tog) 2 times, (YO, K 1) 3 times, YO, (K 2 tog) 2 times, repeat from * 13 more times

Row 2: purl

Rows 3&4: Knit

Repeat these 4 rows for pattern

With Color H: Knit Rows 1-4  of pattern.

Row 5: Purl

Row 6: Knit

Bind off in knitting.

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