This pattern is written so you may use either your favourite fingering or light worsted weight yarns.

Yarn:

260 yards in main colour (MC)
220 yards in contrast colour (CC)

You may choose to knit your version in either a fingering weight or a light worsted/DK weight yarn.

Needles:

For fingering weight version, 3.5mm needles are the suggested starting point.

For light worsted/DK weight version, 3.25mm is the suggested starting point.

Or sizes necessary to achieve gauge.
Please be sure to knit a gauge swatch.

Gauge:

Fingering version: 24 sts x 28 rows = 4” in stranded colourwork

Light worsted/DK version: 24 sts x 26 rows = 4” in stranded colourwork.

Finished Size:

Fingering version: 14.5” tall x 24” in circumference
Light worsted/DK version: 14” tall x 24” in circumferen