Celebrate Knit In Public Day with a Starfall Bandana Cowl Knit-Along! This Advanced Beginner project is a great introduction to the magic of assigned pooling— a knitting technique where you follow the lead of specially hand-dyed yarn to create textured pops of color.

Knit-Along participants can look forward to a casual afternoon of starting their project together. Shara will guide you in picking out your yarn, reviewing the pattern, casting on, and doing the special star stitch.

Starfall uses Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere yarn from their Spring/Summer 2023 assigned pooling collection (Shara is using May). There is no cost to participate in the Knit-Along, but we strongly suggest participants purchase their yarn and/or other materials at Sister-Arts.

• Yarn: 1 skein of Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere assigned pooling yarn, or 400 yards of fingering weight dyed for assigned pooling with an accent color run of about 8"-10"

• Pattern: Purchase Starfall on Ravelry. We recommend bringing a printed copy.

• Tools & notions: US 5 - 20" circular needles with smooth joins to accommodate the wraps used to create the star stitch; 2 unique stitch markers (1 for beginning of round and 1 for center detail); tapestry needle

• Skills needed: Participants should know how to cast on, and be familiar with knitting in the round and yarn-overs

• Skills you’ll learn: Reverse stockinette rolled edge; Placing assigned pooling; Making a star stitch; Suspended bind off

Starfall Cowl Knit-Along will run through the end of June. Join us on Sundays from 1-5pm for outdoor knitting and Starfall help, weather permitting.