A sojourn is not a dash from one place to another. To sojourn is to stay. Brief, purposeful, and present, it is an interval of belonging in a borrowed place.
The hours on the train before you arrive. The early morning in a city you don’t quite know yet. The rainbound afternoon in your own home when you find yourself with a pocket of unclaimed time.
The Sojourn Shawls collection brings together ten shawl patterns built for exactly these intervals. Each one calls for two skeins: enough to knit something generous and genuinely wearable, contained enough to slip into a bag and take along.
There is a particular pleasure in knitting on a journey. Landscapes shifting past the window. The soothing rhythm of a train rumbling along the track. The slow, satisfying accumulation of stitches as the miles pass. And then the other end: the anticipation of arrival, the deep exhale of coming home, the shawl folded into your bag like a small record of where you’ve been.
The knitting itself is unhurried. Mostly simple, some with pretty lace and all with thoughtful textural details. The kind of patterns that reward attention without demanding it. Newer knitters willing to stretch a little will find these well within reach; more experienced hands will find them genuinely restful. You can put these down at arrivals and pick them up again in the hotel. Set them aside on a Tuesday and return to them on Sunday morning. The Curious Handmade Checklist ™ will make sure you never lose your place.
The finished shawls travel well too. A wearable size, the sort of thing you reach for again.
Ten patterns. Two skeins each. One for every kind of sojourn.

eBook published in March 2026