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.

A triangle that commits to one direction. Increases and decreases placed to create a dramatic slant. This is where the shawl series gets genuinely unexpected.

Crescent shaping comes from increases worked on alternating rows. This guide breaks down the (k1, yo, k1) double increase and where the twisted yarn over fits in.

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.