Honey Crescent Shawl

Like a golden moon rising on a warm summer night, Honey Crescent Shawl is light, luminous, and quietly striking. Inspired by the honey moon — the magical full moon of early summer — this design is a celebration of warm weather knitting.

This one-skein shawl combines modern lace with a classic crescent shape that drapes beautifully around the shoulders and wraps comfortably as a scarf. Thanks to its flowy, open texture, it’s surprisingly generous in size for a single skein shawl. Knit from the top down, this project is suitable for adventurous beginners and can be easily adjusted to use up almost any available yardage.

Wear your Honey Crescent on sunlit strolls or under the glow of the moon this summer ♡

Yarn

• 437yds / 400m of fingering weight yarn that holds blocking well
• Sample shawl: Cotton Wool Fingering from Peninsula Yarn (50% pima cotton, 50% sw merino; 3.5oz / 100g, 437yds / 400m) in color Gold, 1 skein
• Get the yarn used for sample shawl here!

Needles

• US 7 / 4.5mm needles for the first half AND
• US 9 / 5.5mm needles for the second half of the shawl
• Or two sizes needed to obtain gauge

Gauge

• 17 sts and 37 rows in 4” / 10cm in garter stitch on smaller needles, blocked
• 15 sts and 33 rows in 4” / 10cm in garter stitch on larger needles, blocked
• Stitch patterns of this shawl require assertive blocking. Difference in gauge will affect the required yardage and the finished size of the shawl.

Size

• Wingspan 60” / 152cm + tassels
• Width at the widest point 12.5” / 32cm

Construction

• The shawl is knit flat with full crescent shaping. Rapid increasing along the edges makes them curl inward, creating a true crescent with long tips and narrow middle.
• The shawl starts with a garter tab which flows into garter edging used throughout the piece.
• The pattern features four stitch patterns: garter stitch, stockinette, eyelets, and lace.
• The first pattern repeat is worked on smaller needles and the second - on larger ones. This adds visual interest to the shawl, as pattern repeats seem to be worked in slightly different stitch patterns due to the change in gauge.
• You can increase/decrease the size of the shawl by repeating or skipping some of the stripes.
• Tassels can be added for an extra touch of boho and to make corners look more polished.