The beautiful Arizona sunset shawl (pattern Freesia) by roadrunner is my inspiration for this project, but I want to replicate the colours as you look out over the sea to some of the Scottish islands (in these photos, from Arisaig over to Rum and Eigg and from the Bealach na Ba on the way to Applecross I think). I can’t find a gradient dye yarn so I’m knitting with 2 strands of 4 ply, and changing one strand at a time to soften the colour changes. Not sure if it will work.

Wee bit worried about the Freesia pattern shape, less right-angle triangle and more isosceles…

25 June 2014: Oh oh, have frogged this, not happy with the shape I was getting, or the chunkiness of the DK 2-strand thing, or the garter stitch… Now trying a wrap, in single ply, garter stitch edge for stability, 4 columns of eyelets, will change colour by stripes of random numbers. That’s the plan anyway…. may take some time….

28 June 2014: decided to steam the bit I’ve done to see how it’s working, and the interesting thing is that the section between the middle columns of eyelets drops exactly 2 rows down, looks like I’ve gone to a lot of effort to start the rows at different levels whereas it’s actually a complete fluke! Liking this so far though desperate to get a few more colours in.

10 July: wasn’t happy with the white to blue colour change, so added a wee row of sparkly beads and now love it! All going well so far, but it’s just too hot to knit. And you don’t often say that in Scotland.

16th July: Finished. I’ve kept the Freesia pattern name on this too because I have comments on that pattern. Will go and try it again at some point but not for now. Please with this, and the wool is fine enough that I can wear it as a scarf or a wrap.

Update: finally managed to get some gradient dyed wool in the colours I want, result Summer Stream Scarf