I was at the local yarn store, and someone was casting on a bobble cowl out of a yarn I had in my stash. I woke up the next morning with this project in my head, and had to cast on right away. As I was knitting it, I kept coming up with modifications, but in the end the finished product is exactly as I envisioned it that morning, complete with yellow stripe. The pattern is similar to the bobble cowl in that it alternates rows of garter stitch with a row of simple yarn overs, but instead of putting them at various angles (using short rows) I did them diagonally. The biggest design choice was whether I was going to change my mind and have the purple as a triangle in the center, instead of as a really wide stripe. I consulted, and was informed that the stripe would be better, so stripe it is.
The yarn is Wonderland yarns, Cheshire Cat base, color ‘Land of Wonders’, for all but the yellow. It was a rainbow mix that didn’t come with yellow! Online it looks like some of the orange skeins may be more yellow than mine was, so maybe I was just unlucky. In any case, I scrounged around at the local yarn store, and came up with two yellows that I mixed for the color you see here: copper corgi’s savannah sock in the colorway ‘Wearing and Tearing’, and jilly - dream in color in ‘pure sunshine’. The yellow is a bit thicker than the other colors, but not enough that it seems to have affected my gauge. I think the fact that the colors are along the diagonal helps make the whole feel like it uses the same weight yarn.
