Okapi

Okapi: (An animal - known as the forest giraffe or zebra giraffe with striped hindquarters and front legs. Native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa) This is a top down and seamless sweater constructed with saddle shoulders using contiguous shaping. (The contiguous method was developed by SusieM) http://www.ravelry.com/groups/contiguous The pattern is written for lace weight yarn held double, combined to give 4 tweedy and tonal shades. However, you may chose to knit the sweater with a single strand of fingering weight yarn. Whatever yarn weight you chose, your colour options are endless. All you need is enough yarn in one shade to knit the body and sleeve tops: then you can go wild with various colour combinations for the stripy sleeves! A big thank you to my testers - [MillieMilliani](/people/MillieMilliani) [popkin](/people/popkin) [baggel](/people/baggel) [fineknits](/people/fineknits) [memia](/people/memia) [juligirl](/people/juligirl) [clintrer](/people/clintrer) [bommeline](/people/bommeline) [baccarha](/people/Baccarha) [ponybird](/people/ponybird) [chirimoya](/people/chirimoya) [scootergal](/people/scootergal) [gilliangcl](/people/gilliangcl) MATERIALS: Lace weight yarn HELD DOUBLE Colour A & B each = yds 985, 1040, 1094, 1148, 1203, 1258 mtrs 900, 950, 1000, 1050, 1100, 1150 CC = yds 219, 240, 263, 285, 307, 329 mtrs 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300 NEEDLES: Main needle = A US 6 (4.00mm) circular needle A set of US 6 (4.00 mm) DPN Smaller needle = A US 4 (3,5mm) or needles to obtain gauge GAUGE: (after washing/blocking) St St: 24sts / 33 rows in 4 inches FINISHED DIMENSIONS: 81(86,94,102,109,117) cm /32(34,37,40,43,46) inches at bust Sample garment has approx 2 inches ease at bust and approx 4 inches ease at hips