Specialist yarn shops sprung up all over Britain in those heady days of hand knitting in the 1980s. At that time I experimented with the most gorgous chunkies and fluffies with the result that I now have a large bag full of yarn, all different lengths, colours and thicknesses. It has been waiting to be put to good use for a long time and I've thought long and hard about what I could knit from this odd selection. I wasn't looking for an ambitious project just something simple that hopefully wouldn't require a pattern. Then recently I read a book about the Austrain artist Hundertwasser. Oh those glorious colours he used! My mind was made up; I must create something with my yarn selection.
Work in progress
Using 7.5 mm needles I cast on 12 stitches in chunky yarn and began knitting (garter stitch). Work is still in progress. I increase one stitch at the beginning of every row and make stripes 3 - 4 rows long. A short length is just sufficient for one row. Two or three finer yarns together are roughly equivalent to chunky. Fluffy, fancy, smooth and knobbly, nothing is excluded. Everything is slowly getting used and I'm about half finished. All the yarn ends are at the edges and won't need sewing in as they will become part of the fringe to be added when knitting is finished. It will become one large tringular shape with the two short edges fringed. Guessed what it is?......That'sright.... A Hundertwasser inspired shawl.
If you aren't familiar with Hundertwasser's vividly colourful paintings just type his name into your search engine 'images', you'll get a very comprehensive selection. Ooh! Those colours!
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