Many Colors is a striped garter stitch coat for babies and toddlers. The body and sleeves are knitted as a single piece, using provisional cast-ons, short rows and miters for shaping. With grafted seams and flippable buttons, the coat is reversible down to the last detail. And have no worries: the knitter is required to weave in precisely zero ends. Magic.

The original purpose of the design was to use up leftover odds and ends of fingering weight yarn. (Small amounts of thinner sock yarn or light sport weight yarn can be incorporated.) If you go the “leftovers” route, you will need approximately 150 (175, 200, 225) grams of fingering weight remainders -- assuming you are content with the color balance in your stash. (If you have no stash, and plan to buy a skein of as many different colors as your budget can stand, you will quite naturally have plenty.)