Rainbow Ray patterns ebooklet

Pre-order your Rainbow Rays patterns ebooklet.

Sandra is working on The Big Rainbow Knit 2021 project, being the creative designer for the Rainbow Rays.

After a public poll asking local people to vote for a landmark in Kirklees to yarn bomb, the iconic façade of Huddersfield Railway station was the outright winner.

Hundreds of people from across Kirklees, the country and the world – be they experienced wool crafters, complete beginners or somewhere in between – have been making individual, coloured squares that will be combined to create an epic Yarn Bomb installation!

Over 15,000 squares will be used to yarn bomb Huddersfield Train Station – that’s equivalent to around 45,000 hours of knitting and crocheting and over 75,000 yards of yarn!

That’s enough yarn to stretch from Huddersfield to York

Local knitting expert, Gail Smith created a design scheme to map out the rainbow of 7 colours across the 6 pillars and knitwear designer, Sandra Nesbitt has designed the series of Kaleidoscopic Rainbow Rays Panels that adorn the square, all using the donated squares.

Sandra has developed a series of patterns for interesting 2 coloured 6 inch squares using a variety of techniques. These cover intarsia, slip stitch/mosaic and fairisle patterns.

She shows and encourages a series of yarn bomb teams throughout Kirklees to design and create their own Rainbow Ray panels, inspired by quilting blocks with illusionary aspects.  The panels are created by bringing together a series of plain squared knitting and the 2 coloured squares that can be worked from her patterns.   The Rainbow Ray panels are documented in her ebook.

This is a pre-order. The patterns within the ebook will be available and emailed to you AFTER the woven festival that takes place from 5th June 2021 to 27th June. This is so official Woven photographs can be included in the ebooklet. Sandra imagines that the ebooklet will be ready for emailing sometime in August 2021. 

Sandra's inspiration for this piece of artwork