This pattern is not currently available to buy as a standalone design; it’s the fifth release of six accessory patterns in the highly original and exciting Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1 project by Felicity (Felix) Ford and Muriel Pensivy. Each pattern in this project is rooted in music, and the project has a rich, multimedia home on Teachable. The designs are contextualised with inspiring video and audio content that really brings their stories and musical links to life.

This drapey, semi-circular shawl celebrates the chance processes through which different snippets of music are juxtaposed when we listen to playlists on shuffle play. It is designed to resemble half a record emerging from a sleeve, or one half of a music box disc. The colourwork motifs are based on the most recognisable phrases of the six recordings that inspired the six yarn shades used for knitting this design: Canto de Ossanha by Baden Powell; Les Fleurs by Minnie Riperton; Waltz by Fatima; Hey Moon by Speck Mountain; The Beautiful Ones by Misty Dixon (Jane Weaver); and Ordinary Joe by Terry Callier. The yarn can optionally be pre-wound into Magic Yarn Balls (as in the sample shown) before the design is knit, so that the placement of colours throughout is left up to chance.

Shuffle Play Shawl begins as a garter stitch strip that forms the top edge. From this, the stitches for the body of the shawl are picked up and joined into the round, and the main body of the shawl is worked top-down. A knit-on garter stitch border is worked sideways along the bottom edge, after which the steek is reinforced prior to cutting using the Backstitch Reinforcement method. At this stage borders are added to each end of the shawl, neatly framing all the stranded colourwork in garter stitch. When all the borders are complete, the steek is cut open and the raw edges are whip-stitched to the back of the shawl or covered in decorative ribbon, as you prefer. A vigorous blocking brings out the semi-circular shape of the shawl.

The following SPECIAL TECHNIQUES are used:

• Making Magic Yarn Balls

• Provisional Cast On (Crochet Hook Method)

• Steeking With Backstitch Reinforcement