Wisterious by Nim Teasdale

Wisterious

Knitting
August 2025
800 - 1200 yards (732 - 1097 m)
Adaptable
English
This pattern is available for $7.00 USD buy it now

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Wisterious is a semicircular shawl with flowing layers of texture and lace, designed as an MKAL, in 6 parts.

Expect chevrons, hearts, leaves, mesh, texture, beads, and some mini cables.

Dates:
Part 1: Sep 21
Part 2: Sep 23
Part 3: Sep 27
Part 4: Oct 4
Part 5: Oct 11
Part 6: Oct 18

The MKAL will be run in the Nimble Knits group. The chat thread can be found here.

  • Yarn: Suits lace to sport weight yarn in solid, gradient, or very gentle variegation/speckle/semi-solidity. This is the perfect opportunity to do a deep stash dive and polish your metaphorical halo/earn some smug points. Or not - no judgement here! :)
  • Yardage is very flexible. The shawl can be bound off anywhere from r162 - r320 and beyond. Allow a minimum of 600m lace weight or 800m fingering weight, but if you have a 1600y skein, you will still be able to use it all.
  • Choose needles that suit your yarn and create a gauge you like.
  • The design can be worked entirely from the written pattern pattern, or from charts with notes.
  • Shape: a wedge-constructed semi circle. Extra wedges can be added to make more than a half circle if desired.
  • Sizing is adaptable due to the wedge construction and the extendable edge, so it can be as small or large as you like.
  • Beads are an optional addition. As charted, there are up to 1720 beads, but if you don’t happen to need body armour, you can easily use less.
  • My project page can be found here.

(Images were created with AI - after learning that art-generated AI was trained on appropriated art, I don’t plan to use this method again. Consent matters.)