See textured cotton in The Hand Dyed Yarn s for this dickey. See the yarn and roving colorways for color options. This dickey is made starting at one shoulder of the yoke and is worked in stockinette stitch with moss stitch borders across the front and back sections to the other shoulder. Stitches for the turtleneck are then picked up along the yoke neckline and knit in ribbing. Hand painted yarns show up especially nice in this dickey style, showing off the yarn's colors as vertical stripes in yoke played off horizontal striped ribbing in the collar.
Alpine cotton is a good weight.
For I-cord handles 50 yards are needed and can be the same yarn or a coordinating yarn. It has a straight body line in simple stockinette stitch with garter stitch bands. The pattern calls for worsted weight or use two strands of finer yarn to come up to an equivalent thickness. Gauge is 5 stitches per inch over stockinette. An extra needle in larger size is needed for joining shoulders.