Copilot Cowl

Copilot Cowl

Copilot is a free pattern on Ravelry.  I decided it was a good choice for some yarn I dyed with Easter Egg Dye a few months ago.  I had some crazy bright orange yarn that I got at a knitting retreat.  At the retreat, I saw that the orange yarn could be a great rust color if over-dyed with blue dye.  I dyed the orange yarn with the blue Easter Egg Dye when I got home. It turned out great.  After dyeing the orange yarn, I noticed there was still a lot of dye in my pot.  I remembered I had some dye-able sock weight yarn in my craft room. I added it to the pot and that is the yarn I used in this project.  

Below you’ll see some random photos of my yarn dyeing session.  I can’t tell you exactly what I did but you can find lots of videos on YouTube which demonstrate how to dye yarn with Easter Egg Dye.

In the photo below, you can see all the yarn I dyed. The rust colored yarn was a bright poppy orange color before dyeing in a blue pot of dye.

Below you can see I had the dye-able wool in the pot (half way in and half way out).  

Above you can see that the entire hank of yarn eventually ended up in the pot (sorry the photos are out of order).  I took some of the Easter Egg Dye pellets and nestled them into the yarn in the pot of water on the stove top.  It was all very random and experimental.  Fun!

Copilot is a great knit for travel or watching TV.  

The cowl is very long and I like wearing it doubled up around my neck. I like wearing cowls since I don’t have to worry about them falling off when wearing them like I do with triangular shaped scarves/shawls.  

Here is the link for the Copilot pattern:  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/copilot