Step 1 : Find your pattern
Step 2 : Work a number of rows in the main stitch pattern
Step 3 : Decide how thick you want the stripes, and mark the knitted sample at the where you'd want a stripe to start and end
Step 4 : Unravel, keeping an eye out for the marks on the wool
Step 5 : Measure the distance between the marks, call this a
Step 6 : Multiply this by the number of colours/stripes in your repeat pattern. eg ...red blue green... has 3 colours/stripes
...red blue red green... has 4 colours/stripes. Call this b
Step 7 : Get your wool going round in a circle that has a circumference b. I did this by using two chairs in a line, with their far sides b/2 apart
Step 8 : Tie off the wool circle into lengths of a.
Step 9 : Dye each section its colour
Step 10 : Clean up the kitchen
Step 11 : Lay the wool out to dry
Step 12 : Roll back into balls
Step 13 : Knit
Step 14 : Be smug
Apparently they are nice and toasty warm.