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.

Makariri is Māori for winter, and this shawl earns the name. Oversized garter stitch with lace and colorwork stripes across 3 yarn colours. Good for the kind of knitting that takes all season.

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.