I spun this yarn specifically for this shawl. I want to knit a swirly, asymmetric, non-linear, sort-of free-form shawl based on Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I have some ideas about how to do it, but am not entirely sure I can create the image in my head. I’ll apologise up front about all the pictures; I will be using them as a planning guide/pattern. So feel free to ignore the not-so-interesting ones.

And it has begun. I started simple, with the moon. If I had known I was going to grow up to be a knitter, I think I would have paid more attention in math class. So much mathematics! And I’m not even at the complicated parts.

Later: The two milky way swirls are finished (although I had to spin 3 more skeins of yarn to do so!), and then most of the stars (I had to spin more skeins for those as well, since the interface between the white or yellow of the stars and the blue of the sky was too stark; I had to spin some intermediate skeins). Yikes! Now comes the tricky part of joining everything together without too many lumps and bumps.