Havoc Shawl Knitting Pattern

Designed by Helen Gipson



Havoc is an all-over cabled asymmetric triangular shawl, inspired, if that is the right word, by the aftermath of the Storm Arwen. Trees were uprooted or just snapped like matchsticks with trunks and branches lying bent and broken across all of the three roads from our valley to the outside world.

About the Design

It features what I have termed free-form cables, where the cables are not restricted to traditional columns and mirrored panels. In this design the cable panels move diagonally with each pattern repeat rather than stacking, and this results in a beautiful mesh of twisting ‘branches’ across the body of the shawl. These are enclosed within decorative borders, and finally the cables transition seamlessly into a ribbed edge.