Another knitter introduced me to the amazing weavings of the Kuba people, also known as the Bakuba, and the book, Textile Art of the Bakuba: Velvet Embroideries in Raffia by Sam Hilu and Irwin Hersey. (My apologies as I haven’t yet found anything that explains when to use which term.) The Kuba Kingdom is located in the Democratic Republic of th...

This pattern makes me think of fields of tulips with row upon row of brilliant flowers so I named it after the area in the Netherlands famous for their tulip fields, Lisse. Hopefully, one day I will get to see them in real life.

This shawl was inspired by Shetland lace shawls but is much simpler in construction as it is worked straight from end to end. The length can be modified by increasing or decreasing the number of times you work charts 2 and 3, I worked them five times. The width can be changed by working the repeat sections less than or more than three times. A ...

I was reorganizing my studio and realized I had a lot of odds and ends left over from the shawls I have knitted. Since it was all handspun, I wanted to make something out of it but the design would have to accommodate lots of different colors and amounts. Also, while the yarns were all lace weight, there is a fairly large range of yarn grist th...

The shawl is triangular and is knit from the top down with increases on every right-side row, worked at the edges and on each side of the center stitch.

Another knitter introduced me to the amazing weavings of the Kuba people, also known as the Bakuba, and the book, Textile Art of the Bakuba: Velvet Embroideries in Raffia by Sam Hilu and Irwin Hersey. (My apologies as I haven’t yet found anything that explains when to use which term.) The Kuba Kingdom is located in the Democratic Republic of th...

The basic design for this shawl popped into my head when I first saw the batt that would eventually become the handspun yarn for the shawl. The golds demanded to be birch leaves, the greens wanted to be evergreen trees, and the greys called out to be granite outcroppings. Since the shawl is knitted from the top down and I wanted a leaf pattern ...

This shawl was designed around the Estonian stitch pattern Pasqueflower Pattern 1 (The Haapsalu Shawl by Siiri Reimann and Aime Edasi, page 77). The construction of the shawl, however, is not traditional. It is a triangular shawl that is knit from the top down with increases on every right-side row, worked at the edges and each side of the cent...

The Estonian pattern Quatrefoil with Stones (The Haapsalu Shawl by Siiri Reimann and Aime Edasi, page 103) reminded me of many of the beautiful windows and arches I saw when I visited Venice so it became the main motif in this shawl. The shawl is triangular and is knit from the top down with increases on every right-side row, worked at the edge...

This shawl is triangular and is knit from the top down..

This pattern was inspired by the edging on the Virga Shawl by Rosemary (Romi) Hill. It caught my eye and I started to wonder if I could make it into an overall pattern. The answer, after a lot of trial and swatching, was sort of.

I loved the British expression “get a wiggle on” and designed this shawl with it in mind. I knit this crescent shaped shawl with a handspun, lace weight yarn using size 1 US needles but I knit very loosely. Swatch to find the yarn and needle combination that gives you the look and hand you want.

The main motif in this shawl is the Wings of the Swan pattern from Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns. I offset the columns of wings so that they formed a zigzag pattern instead of a string of diamonds.

I knit this crescent shaped shawl with a handspun, lace weight yarn using size 1 US needles but I knit very loosely. Swatch to find the yarn and needle combination that gives you the look and hand you want.

This shawl gets its name from the Starlight Lace stitch (from Barbara Walkers’ A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns) and the traditional Shetland lace patterns I used, including the Trellis Diamond and Small Trees patterns. It is triangular and is knit from the top down with increases on every right-side row, worked at the edges and each side...

This shawl is a triangle knit from the top down. The directions are in chart form only.

This shawl is rectangular and is knit from end to end. Width and length are adjustable.

Inspired by Kieran Foley’s MagicWaves and Nim Teasdale’s MagicWaves Triangle Patterns which made me think not only of waves but also of flames so I started playing. Flames need to run vertically and they need to flicker in both directions unlike the flow of waves. Phoenix Wings is the pattern I came up with.

This stole is a rectangular version of my Tulips of Kelmscott pattern which is a top down triangle.

This design was created in memory of my sister, Michele, who died much too soon of vulvar cancer. She sparkled with the love of life and of people and so I chose stars to keep her memory shining bright.

When I saw the fiber I spun for this shawl, it reminded me of the blue cobblestones you find in the old parts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I immediately wanted to turn that memory into a snuggly shawl to use on the plane for my next trip there. When I looked back at the photos I had taken, I realized my memories had made the cobblestones a dar...

This is a rectangular shawl knit from end to end.

The main flower motif in this shawl is from Herbert Niebling’s Tulpenkranz (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tulpenkranz). Studying and playing with his designs and motifs has given me a huge appreciation for his skill in shaping and using stitch texture.

This is a triangular shawl knit from the top down. It can be knit with different weight yarns with appropriate needles (those that give you the look and feel you want). The yarn I used is a laceweight hand spun. Please note that I knit very loosely.

This is a rectangular shawl knit from end to end.

I used a handspun, lace weight yarn for this shawl with size 1 needles but I knit very loosely. swatch to find the yarn and needle combination that gives you the look and hand you want.

This is a rectangular shawl knit from end to end. All non pattern rows are knit.

The name of this shawl refers both to my maiden name and to the fact that I had to frog a big part of my shawl due to a design error which has been fixed,

I love the Shetland tree patterns so I had fun playing with them and adding a river with fish to my forest.

This pattern was inspired by a lovely light Fortuny light fixture that illuminated the stairwell of the palazzo in Venice where my husband and I stayed.

This pattern was inspired by a lovely light Fortuny light fixture that illuminated the stairwell of the palazzo in Venice where my husband and I stayed.

This triangular shawl is knitted from the top down.

This shawl is based on a variation of the Estonian Lilies of the Valley stitch pattern. The size can be adjusted by changing the number of pattern repeats for both the width and the length.

This shawl is an asymmetrical triangle (boomerang) which can be done in any weight yarn and can be made as big as you want it. Needle size depends on your yarn and the look and hand that you want.

Please note that this pattern has not been test knitted by anyone other than myself. Please let me know if you find any problems.

This shawl was inspired by Corgi Hill Farm’s Hummingbird colorway. I spun the yarn used in this shawl from one of her gorgeous braids.

The Barnaba Shawl is a rectangular shawl whose size can be adjusted by changing the number of pattern repeats. I used a handspun lace weight for my version but I think a heavier yarn could be used.

This is an almost circular crescent shawl that is knit for the top down.

April 12, 2019.

This is a triangular shawl that is knitted from the top down. It was designed to be flexible in terms of the kind and amount of yarn. My version of this shawl was knitted with about 370 yards of an 18 wpi handspun yarn. The finished shawl is 52 inches by 30 inches.