Wraith is a pi shawl that features some of my favourite lace and cable motifs that I have developed over the years. Knit in luxurious mohair and silk, this shawl is delightfully ethereal, like a wispy cloud drifted to earth, a wandering apparition, a spectre, a wraith.

Botanical dreams, knit into beauty to wrap around yourself, or someone you love …. with hopes and dreams.

This shawl is worked from the top / neck edge down to the lace border, and features both cable and lace stitches. (but not a great many cable stitches)

Lupins – reliable flower garden stalwart, roadside weed, braided riverbed pest, and nitrogen fixing beneficial. Where I live lupins fill all these categories admirably, putting up cheerful spires all summer long until the first frost, whereupon it collapses into an untidy heap. Whatever your position is with regards to the humble lupine – no cr...

Goldfoil is a triangular version of my popular crescent shaped Landskein shawl pattern, which features a beautiful stitch pattern I created that reminds me of landskeins. The word landskein itself refers to the braided horizon lines created by hills on a hazy day, while goldfoil is a term coined by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to descri...

Billowing lace, nupps and Estonian traditions. A beautiful distraction during interesting times.

This heavy lace weight shawl is designed as a series of concentric circles with 3 doubling rounds near the end of 3 of the 4 tiers. It begins with a circular cast on using a crochet hook and the smallest DPNs (or circular using magic loop) and you gradually switch to larger needles as the shawl increases in size. You may of course, use your own...

This triangular shawl begins at one tip with 3 stitches and expands along one edge to create a triangle. Increases are made only on RS rows, at the right side of the knitting, which creates the top / neck edge.

Beachsand is a crescent shawl featuring an overlapping cable and lace motif worked in a beautifully speckled yarn. The two motifs are first worked separately, then they overlap as you work down the shawl, culminating in an elegant scalloped border.

Cape Japonica features entwining cabled lace tendrils that extend up one arm, part at the top of the shoulder, encircle the neck, and reconnect again at the opposite shoulder to cascade down the other arm.

Butterfly Effect features a cabled lace border on the body and sleeve cuffs. A single iteration of this same motif appears on the centre back between the shoulder blades, which to me looks very much like a butterfly, or perhaps a moth.

The shawl

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Estonian gathered stitches as rain, trickling down a window pane. A deluge uniting earth and sky. Monsoon rain features a variety of relatively simple textured stitch patterns worked in bands, culminating in an eye catching lace border. Choose complimentary colours for an elegant wrap, or contrasting colours for a statement piece. This shawl wo...

The Ribbonwood Pullover features one of my favourite cabled lace motifs that I initially developed for a triangular shawl.

Peruvian Dreams celebrates the elegance of lace and the sumptuousness of a dreamy alpaca yarn. Wrap yourself in luxury with this generous triangular shawl that features a lot of lace, and a delicate sampling of Estonian gathered stitches. I’ve included a single row of simple cables, making this a great project for knitters wanting to expand the...

Drifting Seas is an airy lace shawl that combines a handful of cables with lots of lovely lace. A gently repeating lace motif extends across the fabric and culminates in a simple cabled garland towards the border. I love introducing cables in lace motifs, using a lace weight yarn – the cables give a three dimensional quality to the fabric as th...

This shawl is a great way to combine lace and beautiful multi-coloured or speckled yarns. Often a pretty multi-coloured yarn competes with the lace motif, but there is no chance of that happening when the lace is worked in a solid colour and the multi-coloured yarn is knit in a delightfully simple linen stitch. The linen stitch breaks up lines ...

The fabric of Liquid Geography is a continuous cascade of lace and cables from beginning to end. This cabled lace creates the kind of sinuous texture I most love to design. New Zealand is a geologically active country - the land is literally moving beneath our feet, and that movement has become part of our lives. My inspiration for this shawl w...

Summer Petals is a deep crescent shawl which evokes those easy, breezy days of summer we all hanker after. Sections of repeating lace motifs are edged with a deep border reminiscent of overlapping petals. The shawl shaping begins as a traditional triangle with edge and spine increases. The spine increases are discontinued when the deep border b...

Landskein

The eye of day, or day’s eye, is the common lawn daisy – bellis perennis. It is called the eye of day because the flowers open at dawn and track the sun across the sky, until the petals close at dusk. I like the term Eye of Day – it seems more descriptive than the noun ‘daisy’. The Eye of Day has animacy, while daisy is simply a noun. I can ima...

The first ever Lace Eater Mash-up!

Harakeke begins at one tip with just 3 stitches and expands along one edge to form a triangle. A relatively easy knit, the motifs are formed from a simple repeating stitch pattern that emerges from the top edge. I have used a simple twig pattern, which transforms into a leaf pattern, but I think the resulting fabric looks very much like the tal...

River Road is a bias knit rectangular wrap featuring two alternating versions of horseshoe lace. The wrap features 5 colour blocks, each merging into the other to create a large sumptuous wrap. This wrap is very adaptable – introduce your own colour changing sequence, or work the pattern in random colours as the mood takes you – a great way to ...

(Pattern is now available in Deustch and English)

Herbfield requires just one 100 gram skein of that gorgeous fingering weight yarn that you fell in love with at the fibre festival and just had to have. It also looks stunning in a solid yarn, especially with a picot cast off.

Wisp Hill is a versatile airy wrap that depicts the Ribbonwood motif also featured in my Ribbonwood shawl (and the soon to be released Ribbonwood blanket).

Ribbonwood is now available in Deutsch, many thanks to Sabine at www.schafga.be

High Country Circle is a circular shawl or blanket using Elizabeth Zimmermann’s pi shawl formula, and a companion piece to the High Country Crescent shawl. The High Country of the South Island of New Zealand is a uniquely desolate yet beautiful landscape that both inspires and dwarfs the human spirit. This rugged land is connected from the moun...

Seaward is a delicate crescent shaped shawl featuring lace, cables, nupps and beads! A lace shard featuring an Estonian paw pattern emerges from a simple stockinette band and expands into a deep lace border with a just a taste of cables, nupps and beads.

Tidal Zone is a crescent shaped shawl embellished with a lace and cable motif that expands organically from a band of lace worked in the middle of the shawl.

A long asymmetrical triangle comprised of two halves, and making use of one skein of speckle yarn and a complimentary skein of a semi-solid yarn. The first half is worked in an easy half linen stitch. The pretty speckles in the linen stitch half are picked up in the yarn used for the following lace and cable section. Variegated yarns would also...

Sea Fog represents my return to the delights of lace weight knitting. Like its oceanic namesake, Sea Fog is delicate and airy: a mist-like shroud for your shoulders when the weather turns cool. Sea Fog is an elongated triangle that transitions to a crescent, giving it extra depth than a traditional crescent, but still retains the eye-catching c...

Spring Creek is a versatile shawl that can be knit in either fingering or lace weight yarn, a single colour or stripes. It uses a variety of relatively simple stitch patterns to provide surface interest, and to pique your knitterly interest as well. The piece is finished with a striking, beaded lace border depicting dragonflies in flight.

Speckle Tonic is a pretty crescent shawl with easy lace, designed to make the most of that special skein of speckle yarn in your stash. I have paired it with a matching semi-solid to work the majority of the lace sections.

Lacebark is a lacy asymmetrical triangle that traces the developing skills of the lace knitter. It begins with a simple stocking stitch point and moves onto an easy repeating lace section as the piece grows wider. The lace motifs gradually develop into a more complex motif and ends with an elaborate lace border with pretty picots. One edge of t...

Supplejack is an asymmetrical triangle that traces the developing skills of the knitter. Stripes of squishy garter stitch begins the piece. This is interspersed with blocks of bold colour until you reach the first simple lace section – eyelets edged with garter stitch. More colourful stripes ensue as you work your way down the shawl, encounteri...

My fascination with knitted lace continues with this modern top-down crescent shaped shawl. Flora and fauna motifs flow from the neck edge down, beginning with tiny little moths and pansies before moving on to lotus flowers. Finally, the edge is decorated with a delicate trefoil – a perfect ending to an interesting knit.

High Country Crescent celebrates the raw beauty of my favourite place - the South Island high country of New Zealand. Parched, stony, vast and rugged, this harsh land is connected from the mountains to the sea by a network of sprawling braided rivers and unassuming plants.

Biophilia is a term used to describe a hypothetically innate human tendency to feel an emotional attachment to the natural world. The idea that human wellbeing is utterly dependent upon our positive interactions with the natural world and its biological diversity makes conservation of the planet’s ecological systems imperative. This decades old...

The Lace Eater shawl came from a desire to depict the all-consuming passion that lace knitting inspires in those of us addicted to lace knitting.

The Dandelion Stitch Sampler Shawl is both process and product knitting. A fun, crescent shaped shawl, Dandelion is comprised of ten different stitch patterns interspersed with soothing stocking stitch. You may not have encountered all these stitch patterns before – but they are fun to work, and best of all you only have to work them once befor...

Mad Blood is a dramatic crescent shaped shawl positively dripping with lace, cables, beads and nupps. This shawl is inspired by the gorgeous ruby red colour of a beautiful yarn - a rich blue based red with just a hint of pink. Knitsch Sock: The Mad Blood Stirreth.

Poppy Seed is an easy top down crescent shaped shawl with a large stocking stitch section and shallow lace border, and is thus a good shawl with which to start your lace knitting adventure.

Diamonds and curves, nupps and picots, and double yarn-overs to boot. This top down crescent shaped shawl has lace stitches on right side rows only, so WS rows are a purling breeze. Picots finish the edge, but an alternative stretchy cast off is included in the pattern in case you’re not into picots … yet.

This shawl is my homage to the beautiful Emperor Gum Moth. Emerging from a background of stocking stitch, this unusual moth is accompanied by a little scarab beetle with outstretched wings - two unlikely insects with their own distinctive beauty. This shawl uses right and left twists to enhance wing shapes and antennae, and merge like tendrils ...

This easy top-down crescent shaped shawl has a little bit of everything. Twisted stitches travel like tendrils across the smooth stocking stitch surface and merge into an easy cable stitch that branches out to embrace a simple stranded flower motif. Slipped stitches merge into a simple lace border featuring a cute little lacy flower.

As of April 2015 this pattern now includes instructions for a traditional triangular version in a separate pdf

This top-down crescent shaped shawl combines Estonian lace stitches with intertwining cables to produce an eye-catching shawl a little different from the rest. Intertwining cables and eyelets depict butterflies, while nupp flowers interspersed through the twisting cable motif reflect a pretty garden cascading over a trellis. A picot bind off ad...

An easy slouchy hat knit in the round with a rolled edge and a nifty brim detail. Flick looks great knit in a solid yarn with a soft halo, but could just as easily be knit in your favourite sock wool with a moderate amount of variegation.