I love offering simple designs that allow beautiful yarns to tell the story.

I hope you’ll find the name fitting—and that once you’ve made one, you won’t be able to resist casting on another. This shawl is easy and quick to knit, whether you’re making it for yourself or as a thoughtful, handmade gift.

New Temptation is exactly what it sounds like: a project you can’t wait to start—and one you won’t want to put down once you do. Simple, soothing, and wonderfully relaxing to knit.

The shawl was designed to make the most of one hank of luxury yarn (100 g / 400 m) held double with lace-weight mohair of similar yardage. The addition of mohair brings an instant touch of luxury to almost any yarn. That said, several samples were knitted using different yarn weights (as shown in the photos), and they worked beautifully too.

The construction is a simple boomerang-style shape, beginning with a small number of stitches at one tip and working toward the opposite tip. Straightforward increases create a shawl with a long wingspan and shallow depth, making it easy to wear and giving it a modern silhouette.

The shape forms almost immediately, meaning the shawl is wearable at any stage once it’s long enough to drape around your neck or shoulders. You can easily make it smaller or larger, depending on your preference and available yardage.

This pattern is beginner-friendly, as it is worked mostly in stockinette stitch (knit on the right side, purl on the wrong side, while maintaining the edges as instructed). The triple cluster stitches may feel slightly challenging at first, but with a little practice they quickly become intuitive. Helpful tips are included in the pattern notes—working the row before the clusters a bit loosely is especially beneficial.

If you’d like to use a different yarn weight, you absolutely can—simply adjust your needle size to achieve a fabric you love while keeping good drape. As a guide, I recommend going slightly larger than the needle size suggested on the yarn ball (for example, for DK weight yarns, try 5.5–6 mm needles with approximately 350–450 m of yarn).