This shawl is a design response to the Kaipara Valley. Gauge is not crucial. I used a singles yarn: Waitakere Alpaca Lace.

The notes here are not intended as a step by step manual, rather a guide to putting together a traditional Shetland shawl. It is worked from the centre out and in-the-round.

An up-side down candle-light pattern represents pine tree plantations and our Kaipara River is detailed by a serpentine Yarnover repeat.

The shawl measures 1.1m square after blocking. I used an adjustable wooden frame with stainless steel nails rather than pins.