Kōpekapeka is Te Reo Māori for zig-zag. Textured all over using only knit and purl stitches, quick to finish, and genuinely fun to wear.

Three distinct sections knit as one continuous piece. This breakdown explains the geometry behind the 3/4 shawl's drape, so you understand what you're actually building.

Āio is the Māori concept of peaceful unity between land and sky. Leaf-like lace repeats that settle into a rhythm quickly. Works with a single 400-yard skein.

A rectangle that leans. Increases and decreases push the fabric in a specific direction, and this guide shows you exactly why.

The lace pattern runs all the way to the crown, where the decreases close it into a small star shape. Delicate, free, worth every row.

Wrong-side increases create dramatic flared wings instead of a taper. Worth knitting just to see how differently it sits.

What if contemplation isn't idle but essential? A free asymmetrical shawl pattern and a reflection on burnout, slow living, and reclaiming your own mental space.

400 to 450 yards of fingering weight becomes a crescent shawl with a lace border that looks like more work than it is. Free pattern.

Part of the Kākahu Shawls collection, which grew out of an online Māori weaving class in 2020. Māwhitiwhiti is crescent-shaped and features the whetū stitch, a star pattern drawn from traditional weaving.

The companion to the Māwhitiwhiti in the Kākahu collection. Whatu means weaving in Te Reo Māori, and this one-skein shawl translates weaving stitches into knitting through slip stitch work.

Te Manawakura is Te Reo Māori for The Muse. An asymmetrical triangle with garter stitch, lace, cables, and bobbles. For when you want a shawl that keeps asking something of you.

I started this pattern in 2021 during my hardest year, then set it aside. Picked it up again after healing. Inspired by Ka Mua Ka Muri: the Māori proverb about walking backward into the future.