• This project will be made with stash yarns, specifically remnants.

• This will be my version that utilizes yellow and brown / warm tones. I’ll work 13 stripes. 150st / 1.5” stripes. Cast on with a tail of 85” minimum.

• BO is tighter than CO so I’ll work from bottom to top. I’ll switch up the needle size to the smaller one (US7) when I get to the third colour from the top.

• Note that this time I’ll be doing the Italian CO without working from 2 needles, so this may impact my gauge but I’m still going to estimate that the CO is the looser of the 2…

• Knit each stripe to 1.5”. Knit first row of every colour change.

Sequence:

Tubular CO US 8 (Shrug bottom)
Stripe 1 Classic Elite (beige) 19g=12R
Stripe 2 Sonder Lux (green grey/off white) - 24g= 10R
Stripe 3 Handspun Sonder (grey)
Stripe 4 De Rerum Natura (grungy yellow/brown) 10R = 15g
Stripe 5 de Maille held with Lang cashmere (pearl white)
Stripe 6 Shibui Staccato (yellow)
Stripe 7 Alpagas Gaston (straight white, pink undertone)
Stripe 8 Sonder Lux, that third stripe you found…
Stripe 9 Sonder SM 4-ply (yellow) (10R = 15g of fingering held double, that did not take much yarn…)

At the end of this stripe, switch to US7

Stripe 10 Sonder (flat white) 11R
Stripe 11 Sonder Lux (green grey/off white)
Stripe 12 De Rerum Natura (grungy yellow/brown)
Stripe 13 Alpagas Gaston (straight white, pink undertone)

Note that you have a 3rd stripe’s worth of Sonder Lux yarn in case you want to make any colour adjustments.

Final Thoughts:

• Every time I make one of these I wonder if it’s going to work out, given all of the remnants and how they have been used so differently in previous projects. This one hasn’t disappointed. In fact, it may be my fave?! despite the fact that I wasn’t that excited to make it.

• This stash buster is amazing because it uses whatever amount of yarn you have in whatever way best suits you. And the end result is wearable by all - men, women, children… It’s chic, it’s warm, it’s cozy, it’s practical.

Yarns I’ll use:

Fingering (~23-34g held double per stripe for ~11R stripes):

• Shibui Staccato - 33g (~1 stripe) - Brass (bright yellow)
• Alpagas Bamboo - 42g, (2 stripes) light fingering (1 stripe if held triple) (pink white) - still in 3 balls to hold triple
• Sunday Morning 4-ply - Yellow Toast and Honey 38g (1 stripe held double)
• Lang cashmere - 8g pearly white(to be held with de Maille en Bas, 13g DK) (1 stripe)
• Scheepjes Metropolis - 53g (light beige) (1 stripe) - Update: replace with the third stripe of the Sonder Lux. This colour is too cool for the yellows.
• Isager Sock Yarn - 38g (brown) - prob don’t have enough of this but use as back pocket

Sport (18g - 20g held single 2 stripes / held double 1 stripe):

• Handspun: Sonder SM undyed grey 34g (1 stripe held double)
• Sonder Lux grey 87g (2-3 stripes held double)

DK (17g per stripe, held single):

• Sonder Sunday Morning DK - Flat White - 14g (1 stripe, cutting it close)
• de Maille en Bas, 13g DK - pearly white (to be held with Lang cashmere, 8g) (1 stripe, cutting it close)

Worsted (~17g required per stripe, held single for ~11R stripes):

• DRN Gilliatt 36g - grungy yellow, 2 x 17g stripes
• Classic Elite 20g - beige - 1 x 17 stripe