If you’re still feeling battered and bruised from the whole Missoni for Target experience, you may want to take solace in a nice soothing knitting project. This is delightfully simple but an incredibly satisfying knit which I think ended up being a little Missoni-esque in flavour.
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As with so many other knitting projects, I have Ravelry to thank for this. Someone organised a swap whereby twenty-two of us sent in one skein of gorgeous Sundara sock yarn and then received back twenty- two little mini skeins in different Sundara colours. I mixed these colours in with my own sock yarn leftovers to create a random pool of about thirty colours. You don’t need so many though. Others on Ravelry have created the scarf with a much more restricted colour set and it still looks fab – you just need leftovers in the same weight of yarn throughout.
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After that came the really fun bit. I then just wallowed in the colours choosing one colour per row and combining them using a stitch called ‘linen stitch’ which is not hard and ‘weaves’ and mixes the colours together ending up with an approximation of woven fabric. It was fascinating to see how the colours changed and interacted and looked so different depending on the other colours near them.
I knit through the back loops on the first and last rows and then pulled the ends tightly to create a self fringe.
Take that Target!
Full details here on my Ravelry page. Come and be my friend.
