Mardi Gras at home

When I got the roving, it was sort of a strange combination of white, yellow, green, and purple. As soon as I spun it, it became obvious that it was Mardi Gras yarn, and also who it needed to belong to - our lovely friends who throw the best Mardi Gras party every year. So this year, without a party, it was its own celebration to make it into this hat and scarf, and deliver it to them. 

The cowl is a simple feather and fan lace, decreased towards the top, and the matching hat starts out with the same pattern, and then switches to white where I ran out of the handspun, decreasing to a swirled top.


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