THE LONG WAY ROUND - Assigned Pooling Knitting Pattern

I fell in love with Dawn Barker’s assigned pooling patterns and decided I wanted to create one of my own that uses a stitch I especially enjoy—the double-elongated stitch. I named the pattern after the stitch because I often find myself taking the long way round to do things. Maybe you do too. ;-) Yarn You’ll need one 100 gram skein of yarn dyed for assigned pooling. That means that about one quarter of the skein is dyed in one color or combination of colors and the other three quarters of the skein is dyed in a distinctly different color or combination of colors. For this stitch, it’s okay if the assigned pooling color is all in one section or in two separate sections. I used a skein of sport-weight yarn for the sample project, but any weight will work. You'll just to adjust the needle size accordingly. Needles and Notions Circular needles that are at least 36 inches (90 cm) in length (see needle size recommendations below) 1 removable stitch marker to mark the right side of the wor