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The Kākahu Shawls is a two one-skein wonder shawl collection, inspired by my experiences with traditional Māori weaving. During the last few months of 2020 I took an online class with Aho America on creating our first ornamental kākahu. As I learned the new techniques and skills, I was struck by how many of the weaving stitches looked a lot like knitting stitches. So I set out to see how I could translate these into knitting stitches. And thus this mini collection was created.

Shawl #2 in this collection is the Māwhitiwhiti shawl. See shawl #1 here.

Māwhitiwhiti means “to cross over”. Like cable stitches, which I originally used to replicate the look of the māwhitiwhiti, but found that it is through a combo of drop stitches and cabling. The stitch created is called the whetū - the star. The Māwhitiwhiti shawl is a bottom-up crescent shawl, starting with the drop-stitch border up to the body, which is knit using an altered form of short rows. Fringe is then added at the bottom.

YARN

• Fingering/4-ply
• Camellia Fiber Company White Tweed Sock (84% Merino, 16% Donegal Nep; 437 yards; 400 m/100 g).
• 1 skein in Chicory

NEEDLES

• US 3/3.25 mm and US 5/3.75 mm size or size needed to obtain gauge, 24 in./60 cm circular needle

GAUGE

• 30 sts and 36 rows = 4 in./10 cm in St. st using US 5/3.75 mm after blocking.
• Gauge is not crucial to these projects, but varying gauges can have an effect on final measurements and yardages.

NOTIONS

• Darning/tapestry needle
• 4 Stitch Markers
• US H-8/5 mm crochet hook

Print, mobile and LVA versions available to download.

LVA version includes:

• black text

• san serif, 22-24 point font, with no italics

• fully written directions, no chart required