I made this last year to take with me into the woods and wrap around a big tree. In addition to this piece, I made about ten or twelve additional tree sweaters, either hand knit or sewn together from sweater scraps. I am most proud of the rainbow one, though. I’d envisioned a rainbow gently swirling around a tree, and that’s exactly what I got. I had received a request for a pattern, so I wrote this up, intending to make it public somewhere a bit less fleeting than Facebook, but I never did. Until now.

You can use any colors you want, as many as you want, and make it as wide or as long as you want depending on how many stitches you cast on and by making sure you increase and decrease in the same spot every time. It would probably look really cute as a scarf!

What I did was to cast on 20 sts in each color. You could easily adjust the width of the stripes by changing the number of “middle stitches”. For this pattern, there are 10 “middle stitches” and 10 “border stitches” (5 on each side) for each stripe, 20 sts total.