This design is inspired by structure of hops. The shape of the shawl wraps around one’s shoulders and sits securely. As written it takes nearly 600 yards of fingering weight yarn but with fewer repeats it could use as little as 400.

This shawl began as a submission for a local mystery knit a long. As a result it is easily broken up in parts which would have been named after the structures within a hop it was inspired by - strig, bracteole, bract, and lupulin gland.