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Knit Your Own Adventure
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Westknits Patterns MAKE IT MY WAY SHAWL PATTERN Westknits Pattern
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Stephen & Penelope

Westknits patterns are all about making them your own, so this year's Yarn A Long theme, Knit Your Own Adventure, embraces colour customisations and design choices, resulting in three new shawls you are bound to love. 

YAL pattern codes are not included with Side Quest kits. Patterns must be purchased separately on westknits.com or Ravelry.

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Missed out on the FULL ADVENTURE  kits for this year’s YAL?

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Side Quests give you the chance to join on your own solo adventure!  Choose your kit and pick up your pattern for your quest!

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Stephen & Penelope Notions ENAMEL STITCH MARKER SET - AMSTERDAM Sundries
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Stephen & Penelope Notions

ENAMEL STITCH MARKER SET - AMSTERDAM

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Two brown leather measuring tapes with a white tape on a pink background
Stephen & Penelope Goodies LEATHER TAPE MEASURE Tools
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Stephen & Penelope Goodies

LEATHER TAPE MEASURE

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Stephen & Penelope Notions SQUIRREL NEEDLE GAUGE Tools
Stephen & Penelope Notions SQUIRREL NEEDLE GAUGE Tools

Stephen & Penelope Notions

SQUIRREL NEEDLE GAUGE

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YAL Exclusive Goodies

A little piece of amsterdam to adorn your WIP!

Compact, reliable and built to last through all your projects.

Size your needles in style!

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Includes the new juicy Hex colour, Cantaloupe!

START YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

West Wool HEX SIDE QUEST - CHIFFON CANTALOUPE Merino wool Nylon Fingering Quick Kits
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West Wool

HEX SIDE QUEST - CHIFFON CANTALOUPE

Regular price €87,00
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Stephen & Penelope Notions ENAMEL STITCH MARKER SET - AMSTERDAM Sundries
NEW

Stephen & Penelope Notions

ENAMEL STITCH MARKER SET - AMSTERDAM

Regular price €12,00
Sale price Regular price
Stephen & Penelope Goodies LEATHER TAPE MEASURE Tools
NEW

Stephen & Penelope Goodies

LEATHER TAPE MEASURE

Regular price €12,00
Sale price Regular price
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Enjoy the cool tones of our latest Hex colour, Ripple!

JOINT THE QUEST

West Wool HEX SIDE QUEST - RIPPLING GUAVA Merino wool Nylon Fingering Quick Kits
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West Wool

HEX SIDE QUEST - RIPPLING GUAVA

Regular price €87,00
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Stephen & Penelope Goodies LEATHER TAPE MEASURE Tools
NEW

Stephen & Penelope Goodies

LEATHER TAPE MEASURE

Regular price €12,00
Sale price Regular price

Stephen & Penelope Notions

SQUIRREL NEEDLE GAUGE

Regular price €9,00
Sale price Regular price
Stephen & Penelope
Stephen & Penelope
MAKE IT MY WAY SHAWL

The Patterns

Each shawl design will have a Knit Your Own Adventure aspect to it, whether it's choosing the final size of your shawl to make it small or large or selecting your stitch pattern.

One of the designs will be a spectacular adventure where you get to select between different stitch patterns throughout the design, making the shawl truly unique. If you want a more simple relaxing section, there will be lots of easy breezy stitches to choose from or if you want more technique, then choose the more intricate stitch pattern option.

This year's YAL is all about making the shawls your own with Stephen's fearless guidance with detailed instructions and lots of colourful inspiration.

Release dates:

Pattern 1 - Make It My Way Shawlavailable now on Westknits.com

Pattern 2 - Assemblage Shawl available now on Westknits.com

Pattern 3 - Bouquet Basket Shawl available 6th July 2026

ASSEMBLAGE SHAWL

The Patterns

Each shawl design will have a Knit Your Own Adventure aspect to it, whether it's choosing the final size of your shawl to make it small or large or selecting your stitch pattern.

One of the designs will be a spectacular adventure where you get to select between different stitch patterns throughout the design, making the shawl truly unique. If you want a more simple relaxing section, there will be lots of easy breezy stitches to choose from or if you want more technique, then choose the more intricate stitch pattern option.

This year's YAL is all about making the shawls your own with Stephen's fearless guidance with detailed instructions and lots of colourful inspiration.

Release dates:

Pattern 1 - Make It My Way Shawlavailable now on Westknits.com

Pattern 2 - Assemblage Shawl available now on Westknits.com

Pattern 3 - 6th July 2026

The Full Adventure Palettes

Like previous Yarn A Long subscriptions, you can sign up for all three shawl packages for the Full Adventure to receive beautiful new hand dyed colours created especially for all three designs in May, June, & July. Each package includes yarn to knit the shawl plus extra goodies!

The adventure begins by choosing your YAL colour palette: WARM or COOL. Both colour themes include the same yarn bases to knit the shawl.

Cool

Choose the COOL theme if you love blues and greens.

All three palettes will feature cool-toned colours like oceanic blues and wilderness adventure greens. Expect delicious speckles from Hedgehog Fibres in a dreamy blue fade, contrasting green tones in brand new semi-solid hand-dyed colourways from West Wool HEX, and an absolutely divine aqua/green inspired palette on Qing Fibre's luxurious Yak Singles base.

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