Dustwoven Shawl Knitting Pattern

🕯️ Created in collaboration with Bad Sheep Yarn for their 2025 Winter Solstice Advent, the Dustwoven Shawl was designed to make the most of a fading color palette and to hold a stitched record of our own transitions. As the days grow shorter, we move toward the longest night while the around us colors deepen and shift. The Dustwoven Shawl honors that transition as a piece meant to mark each step in our annual journey into the darkness, offering warmth and beauty to light the way.
 
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🕯️ When working stripes, there’s no need to cut yarn between color changes. You can carry the unused strand neatly up the side of the shawl — see the Wool & Wyrd blog post Carry Yarn Up the Wrong Side: Fewer Ends to Sew in Knitting Projects for tips on maintaining a smooth, polished edge.
 
🕯️ Worked side to side in simple seed stitch, Dustwoven features a four-row repeat that lends itself to relaxing, mindless knitting, while an intriguing center seam introduces a gentle change in direction that keeps the work engaging.
 
🕯️ Dustwoven is an oversized kite-shaped shawl that remains magically light, fluid, and full of drape. The unique construction hints at complexity while staying intuitive, creating a stitch rhythm that balances engagement with rest.
 
🕯️ The pattern includes instructions for 24-color, 4-color, and single-color versions, designed to highlight fading palettes using mini skeins, gradients, or thoughtfully chosen yarn pairings. Makers are encouraged to use any number of colors while keeping the shaping consistent.
 
🕯️ Dustwoven is part of the Sisters Not Twins Project, alongside a crochet sister shawl designed by Brittany Garber of KnotBadBritt, celebrating shared inspiration expressed through distinct crafts.
 
🕯️ Wrap yourself in warmth and light; let your yarn tell your story.
 
🕯️To make it easy, Bad Sheep Yarn has created four exclusive kits!
As shown below:
Peaceable Kit: Wild Blueberry, Water, Blue Morpho, Celeste
Aeronaut Kit: Black Jeans, Sunset Moth, Zanzibar, Banana Split
Marchpane Kit: Hibiscus Sorbet, Orange Julius, Lemon Meringue, BayBreeze
Cloudpine Kit: Echo, In the Willows, Elinor, Marley
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Feel free to sell items made from this pattern, with credit to the designer.
This pattern is the work, product, and property of Sönna Schuttner, please do not distribute.
 
Craft & Skill Level:
Knitting, Adventurous-Beginner
 
Yarn Suggestions:
Bad Sheep Yarn, Fingering 75/25 Superwash Merino & Nylon; 462 yds / 422 m; 100 g / 3.5 oz
 
Yarn yardage and weight:
1750 yds / 1600 m, 380g / 13.4 oz fingering weight, category 1 yarn
24 Color Shawl: 24 colors; 90 yds / 82 m each
4 Color Shawl: 4 colors; 462 yds / 422 m each
Single Color Shawl: 1 color; 1750 yds / 1600 m
 
Sample shown in the Cloudpine Kit and the limited 2025 Winter Solstice Advent Mini Collection by Bad Sheep Yarn 
 
Gauge:
28 sts and 22 rows over 4 in / 10 cm, knit flat in seed stitch pattern and blocked but not stretched.
Notes on blocking:
~Superwash yarn tends to grow considerably when blocked. Yarn quantities are based on blocked gauge and may be insufficient if gauge is measured before blocking. 
~If there is a wide range of light and dark colors or concern for bleeding, steam blocking is recommended.
 
Needles and Notions:
🌈US 4 / 3.5mm knitting needles or size needed to obtain gauge, straight or circular needles
🌈 Distinct removable stitch marker to mark the spine, called “spine marker” in pattern
🌈 3 more removable stitch markers
🌈 Darning needle
🌈 Blocking tools: wires, t-pins or combs, 
 
Size:
Wingspan: 98 in / 247 cm
Depth at center: 30 in / 76 cm