Kaiso Pullover

Kaiso is a short sleeve, square neck pullover knit using four colors of fingering weight yarn. The stranded pattern, which is reminiscent of seaweed, adds interesting stripes as well as a central motif on the front, back, and sleeves.

Skills Required 

• knitting in the round 

• reading a color chart 

• working with 2 colors of yarn 

• increasing 

• decreasing

Yarn Requirements 

Fingering weight 50% cotton, 50% wool yarn in 4 colors. 

• Main Color: 530 (600, 670, 750) (830, 910, 1000) yards 

• Contrast 1: 230 (260, 290, 330) (360, 400, 440) yards 

• Contrast 2: 230 (260, 290, 330) (360, 400, 440) yards 

• Contrast 3: 230 (260, 290, 330) (360, 400, 440) yards

Sample knit with Rowan Wool Cotton 4ply; Fingering weight 50% cotton/50% merino yarn; 197 yards in 50g; in size 37”; Main Color: 483 White; 3 balls;  Contrast 1: 486 Paper; 2 balls;  Contrast 2: 491 Leaf; 2 balls  Contrast 3: 482 Pale Blue Grey; 2 balls