I've only gone and invented the coolest gift of 2024!

I've only gone and invented the coolest gift of 2024! By MADDY FLETCHER FOR YOU MAGAZINE Published: 08:01, 23 November 2024 | Updated: 08:01, 23 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments I was alone on the overnight ferry back from the Shetland Islands when I started knitting my triangle scarf. It was December 2023 and the sea was rough. The journey from Shetland to Aberdeen takes 12 hours and I was too seasick to sleep or read, but too bored to sit and do nothing.

I had acquired good green wool and a pair of needles in Shetland, so, I thought, as our enormous boat travelled through the enormous darkness, I’d knit something. I am not a very good knitter. I am, in fact, a very bad knitter.

But I wondered what would happen if I cast on hundreds of stitches, then, at the start and end of each new row, dropped a stitch. I had a vague vision that the scarf might turn into a triangle, but I wasn’t certain. I don’t knit with patterns because I don’t understand them.

I am also not mathematically or practically minded. So what I mean is, it seemed very likely that this wouldn’t work. Alpaca-blend scarf, £125, rejinapyo.

com But, it did! With each new row, my scarf became more narrow and more triangular. It was smaller than a shawl and I wouldn’t call it a neckerchief because it was made with wool; it was just..

. a triangle scarf. On the ferry, a woman wearing an intricately patterned fair isle jumper observed my handiwork: ‘That looks interesting.

’ I said thank you and kept.