Chaos

You know those days where everything is so unorganized, and you yearn for some order to come from the chaos? Well it was on one of those days that I decided to design chaos, to remind me that sometimes, what appears to be random and without reason, is actually a structured and logical thing.

Chaos is based on the digits of Pi. These have been proven to be random in their order, but put them all together and they not only make one of the fundamental principals of mathmatics, but they also make a pretty beautiful pattern when knitted.

This is a shawl scarf, It's knitted in a light yarn, and knitted wide, so you can wrap it round, or use it as a scarf with equal comfort.

Yarn: 4 skeins of Chameleon colorworks in Figgy Pudding
Needles; 4mm
Gauge; not important

To get the same pattern effect I did cast on 120 stitches, however casting on varying amount of stitches will create equally varied patterns.

There are 2 rows that make up this patter, all even rows are
*Kx, k2tog Yo* (repeat to end)

All odd rows are purl

I have detailed 400 rows, but you may not need this many. Knit until you are happy with the length, or you run out of yarn. Then block to the desired size.

Rather then write out every row, you simply replace x in row one with each of these numbers in turn; Where the pattern shows K, knit this row

2,0,3,0,4,8,1,5,4,2,4,7,8,6,8,2,1,1,7,3,5,1,5,3,2,2,7,2,1,6,8,4,k,1,7,7,3,0,8,6,0,5,8,2,8,8,
2,6,4,0,k,4,7,1,k,8,7,3,8,3,3,4,8,1,2,k,6,7,0,5,3,k,5,1,7,5,1,k,7,8,8,7,5,1,7,k,2,3,7,1,4,2,3,1,0,0,6,k,
5,6,8,7,1,0,3,7,k,7,5,4,0,2,1,7,1,2,k,5,5,3,6,k,8,2,7,3,3,5,k,8,4,4,k,4,7,1,1,2,0,6,1,4,2,4,8,3,k,
7,0,1,7,3,7,0,0,0,6,3,4,k,1,7,3,0,k,1,6,k,0,8,2,7,4,1,0,0,k,4,4,4,8,5,3,3,5,1,1,8,3,7,8,4,3,8,2,k,2,7
0,8,5