Color Bliss is a great stash-buster, worked top-down and seamless. Color is its defining element: beautiful, happy, joyful color. Use the suggested 8 colors, choose your own favorites, or raid your stash to make this fun and comfortable pullover with plenty of stripes, blocks of color, and a rolled neckline.

Sizes: 36 (38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54) in. /91.4, (96.5, 101.6, 106.7, 111.8, 116.8, 121.9, 127, 132.1, 137.2) cm Bust. Sweater shown has zero ease at bust and 4 1/2 inches positive ease at waist.

Skills needed: Long-Tail or Cable Cast-On, working in the round, Backwards-Loop Cast-On, picking up stitches, m1 increase, k2tog and ssk decreases. Instructions for Jogless Stripe included.

About color and yarn: Pattern includes suggestions and worksheets for creating your own palette and stripe sequence. It also includes the yarns and yardage used in both the green/purple and gray/orange/blue sample sweaters.

Detailed schematic also included.

Yardage requirements (worsted weight):
Color A: 595 (650, 705, 775, 825, 880, 905, 945, 990, 1020) yards / 545 (595, 645, 710, 755, 805, 830, 865, 905, 935) m.
Color B: 105 (120, 125, 135, 145, 150, 160, 165, 175, 180) yards / 100 (110, 115, 125, 135, 140, 150, 155, 160, 165) m.
Colors C - H require from 30 to 120 yards / 30 to 110 meters each.

Expand your color options by using sport or fingering weight yarn held double. Be sure to allow double the yardage for any color for which you do this.