Spring Flower Basket (originally referred to as ‘Ow! Ow! My Eyes!’ because of the crazy color combinations) is a crescent-shaped shawl, whose shape arises from increases in the ripple pattern every 6 rows or so. It is designed to use up all your brightly-colored scrap yarn, from medium fingering weight to worsted weight. Yarn is changed every row (working back and forth) to create sideways rippled stripes, and the crazier the color combos, the better. If you wind up looking like an Easter Bunny horked on you, you’re doing it right. ^_~

Gauge is not important for this shawl, and its size can be increased or decreased by either adding or subtracting multiples of 4 sts from row 1, or by adding or subtracting ripple rows.

The pattern is written in US terminology, and includes the option of using either foundation half-double crochet sts or a chain and regular half-double crochet sts for row 1, depending on your preference.