Summer Heat Worsted is my newest cowl design to take care of that problem. Summer Heat Worsted uses a single skein (100 grams) of worsted weight yarn in a slip stitch pattern to highlight the color play in variegated yarn.
The original Summer Heat pattern was a sock design that I loved so much that I knew a cowl was needed. The fingering weight version came in early 2025 (check it out here) and now here is the worsted version!
Summer Heat Worsted was designed with a single skein of Malabrigo Seis Cabos (which I loved knitting with) but would work great in any worsted weight yarn. Instead of slipped your stitched with yarn in back, you'll slip your stitches with yarn in front so that the float will show off your colors. The float is then caught on a consecutive row and creates the 'V's of the heat wave.
The stitch pattern is easy to play with so I think that adding a few repeats would work to do a DK version as well. So what are you waiting for? Grab a single skein from your stash and cast on!
