The Rodeo Star Pillow is a stranded knitting design for a zippered pillow to be circularly knit in Aran-weight Shetland wool yarn. The main, charted section uses three colors per round. The designer’s free YouTube video, “Knitting with Three Colors and Catching Long Floats” , explains the tangle-free technique used. Recommended for knitters already familiar with two-color, Fair Isle-style knitting and looking to add a new dimension to their color work knitting.

Yarn packs in the colors shown are available through this website here.

Finished dimensions = 20 x 20” / 51 x 51 cm, when knit to gauge, below.

Yarn = Jamieson’s of Shetland “Shetland Heather” 100% Shetland wool Aran weight yarn, 101 yds / 92 m per 50g ball.

Colors used:

A = Three 50g balls of Ivory #343

B = Three 50g balls of Shetland Black #101

C = Three 50g balls of Chianti #200

D = One 50g ball of Duck Egg #1000

Needle suggestions:

Looser knitters: US #7 / 4.5 mm for Main needle, US #6 / 4.0 mm for Trim needle.

Tighter knitters: US #8 / 5.0 mm for Main needle, US #7 / 4.5 mm for Trim needle.