Home to over three-thousand items relating to transport in the city of Glasgow, the Riverside Museum of Transport has objects ranging from cars, motorbikes and buses to posters and model ships. The museum building was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and opened in June 2011. Inspired by the distinctive peaks and troughs of the museum roofline, the Riverside Shawl is an exploration of chevron patterns. The shawl is knitted in three parts: a central panel and two outer wings.

The overall shape of this shawl is best described as an extended rectangle, comprising one square and two rectangles. The central-panel square is knitted first, then the two outer-wing rectangles are worked, one at a time, by stitches being picked up and knitted outwards from one side each of the square. All three of these shapes have been extended and altered by the addition of the chevron stitch pattern.

Size
Whole Shawl
31cm/12in (centre-square depth); 40cm/15¾in (rectangle cast-off width); 131cm/51½in (length)

Centre Square
31cm/12in (width); 31cm/12in (chevron indent-to-indent depth); 35cm/14in (chevron point-to-point depth)

Rectangle Wings (both alike)
31cm/12in (starting width); 40cm/15¾in (cast-off width); 50cm/19¾in (length)

Yarns
John Arbon Knit By Numbers (KBN) 4ply (100-per-cent pure Falklands merino wool, 400m/437yd per 100g skein)
Yarn A: KBN71 (green); 1 × 100g skein
Yarn B: KBN03 (dark grey); 1 × 100g skein

Tensions
28sts × 40 rows to 10cm × 10cm over chevron pattern (see Chevron Pattern for Centre Square and Rectangle Wings), using 3.5mm needles
22sts × 34 rows to 10cm × 10cm over stocking-stitch pattern, using 3.5mm needles (please note that this stocking-stitch tension is given for reference, for swatching only)