Evelina Shawl in Juniper Moon Findley - Downloadable PDF

Evelina Shawl in Juniper Moon Farm Findley — Pattern Summary

The Evelina Shawl is a beautifully elegant half-circle lace shawl designed by Adrienne Ku as part of The Hesperides Collection. It is knitted in Juniper Moon Farm Findley lace-weight yarn and is available as a downloadable PDF. With a generous finished width of 60 inches (154 cm) and a length of 30 inches (77 cm) from neck to bottom edge, this shawl makes a striking and versatile accessory suitable for layering over evening wear or adding a refined touch to everyday outfits.

Construction and Shaping

The Evelina Shawl is worked from the top (neck edge) downward, beginning with a simple cast-on of just 5 stitches. The half-circle silhouette is achieved through strategic increase rows worked between each lace section, gradually expanding the fabric outward. This top-down construction gives knitters the flexibility to customize the finished size — the pattern notes that the shawl can easily be made larger by working additional repeats of the final lace section, making it an adaptable project for those who wish to use extra yarn or prefer a more voluminous wrap.

The shawl is divided into multiple distinct lace sections, each introduced after a series of increase rows that build the stitch count progressively. Stitch markers are placed at regular intervals to help knitters track the lace pattern repeats across the growing width of the piece. The shawl concludes with a knitted-on border, a classic finishing technique in which the border is attached to the live edge stitches as it is worked, creating a neat and integrated edge without the need for seaming or a separate pick-up row.

Techniques Used

• Top-down construction — the shawl begins at the neck and grows outward toward the hem
• Symmetrical increases — worked at regular intervals using kfb (knit into front and back) to shape the half-circle silhouette
• Charted lace knitting — multiple lace sections (including Chart C) are worked from printed charts with repeated pattern rows
• Stitch marker placement — twenty-one stitch markers are used to delineate lace repeat sections across the row
• Knitted-on border — a traditional technique for finishing shawl edges cleanly and elegantly
• Blocking — strongly recommended to open up the lace motifs and achieve the stated finished measurements

Stitches Used

• Stockinette stitch (St st) — used as the base fabric between lace sections
• Garter stitch — used for the border edges (knit on both right-side and wrong-side rows at the selvedges)
• Yarn overs (YO) — the primary method for creating decorative lace eyelets throughout the shawl
• k2tog (knit two together) — a right-leaning decrease paired with yarn overs to form lace motifs
• ssk (slip, slip, knit) — a left-leaning decrease used to balance lace shaping
• sk2p (slip 1, k2tog, pass slipped stitch over) — a centered double decrease for more pronounced lace points
• p2tog (purl two together) — used on wrong-side rows within the lace patterning
• kfb (knit into front and back) — the primary increase stitch used to shape the half-circle

Lace Sections and Pattern Structure

The Evelina Shawl features three distinct lace sections, each worked from a separate chart. The lace sections are separated by plain increase rows that widen the shawl and reset the stitch count before the next charted section begins. The Third Lace Section, for example, works Chart C across twenty repeats simultaneously, with the repeat sequence worked a