Bachelor of visual arts student Tristan John McGregor said he had spent nearly every day since September knitting a never-ending scarf that originally started as a class project that he never stopped working on.
Mr McGregor said he wanted to do something easy and something he could do continuously.
"Knitting was an obvious choice because I’d done it in the past.
"I knew I could pick up on it pretty easily again.
"It’s something that doesn’t have to end and you don’t have to come to a climax on.
"It allows itself to keep going continuously."
More than $1000 worth of wool had gone into the scarf along with other trinkets he added to it along the way.
"I’m using seven to 10 threads at a time but then with those threads you’ve got almost random colour combinations with a little curation on my part.
"I’ve got sequences, I’ve got beads, I’ve got a working clock, I’ve got fairy lights, I’ve got flowers — just anything I could get my hands on that would knit into it."
The scarf had become a sort of "memory calendar", Mr McGregor said.
"The object itself actually becomes a memory calendar at some point because I remember doing every part of it.
"I remember doing every area and almost every stitch in a strange way."
He would be knitting at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum today to celebrate World Wide Knit in Public Day from 10am to 12.30pm.
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