This beginner-friendly stranded knitting project features eye-catching vertical stripes.

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Skills Used
Basic knitting skills: cast on, knit, bind off
Knitting in the round (including small circumference knitting in the round using DPNs or the “magic loop” method with circular needles)
Decreasing with k2tog
Changing colors

Skill Level
Easy

Finished Size
22” (56 cm) circumference.

Materials
Imperial Yarn Columbia (100% wool, 4 oz/113 g, 220 yd/201 m) – 1 skein ea in 116 Black Cherry (CA) and 04 Charcoal Natural (CB), or approximately 100 yd (91 m) in ea of 2 colors in any medium weight yarn.

US 10/6 mm 40” (100 cm) circular needles or set of DPNs, or any size needed to obtain correct gauge.

Yarn needle.

Stitch marker.

Gauge
15 sts x 18 rows in pattern = 4” (10 cm). For best fit, always check your gauge.

This pattern was originally published in the Fall, 2014 issue ofLove of Knitting.