Berroco Keshi PDF

Berroco Keshi Shawl Knitting Pattern by Amy Christoffers

The Berroco Keshi is a beautifully crafted rectangular shawl designed by Amy Christoffers and published by Berroco. Available as a downloadable PDF, this intermediate-level knitting pattern produces a generous, elegant shawl with striking lace detailing and a distinctive fringe finish. The finished shawl measures approximately 84 inches (213 cm) long by 15½ inches (39 cm) wide, making it a substantial and luxurious accessory suitable for wrapping, draping, or wearing as a statement piece.

What Is Being Made

The Keshi pattern produces a single large rectangular shawl with a refined, textural surface created through lace charted patterning. The shawl features garter stitch borders along the edges and a central lace motif worked across the body. One of the most distinctive finishing details is the creation of fringe along the long edges, achieved by intentionally dropping specific stitches after the knitting is complete. This technique gives the shawl an organic, flowing fringe without the need to cut and attach separate strands of yarn.

Construction and Techniques

Despite its rectangular final shape, the Keshi shawl is cleverly worked in the round on a long circular needle, which allows the knitter to work the lace pattern on right-side rows only — a technique many knitters find easier for reading and maintaining complex stitch patterns. The piece is then cut open during finishing to form the flat rectangle. This seamless, worked-in-the-round approach combined with a deliberate cut is an advanced finishing concept that intermediate knitters will find both satisfying and educational.

• Worked in the round: The shawl is cast on and knitted as a tube using a long circular needle, allowing the lace pattern to be worked consistently from the right side.
• Seamless construction: No seaming is required; the piece is cut open rather than seamed, preserving a clean finish.
• Lace knitting: A charted lace pattern forms the decorative body of the shawl, requiring familiarity with reading knitting charts and working yarn-overs and decreases in sequence.
• Worked flat after cutting: Once the tube is cut open, the shawl lies flat as a rectangle, revealing the full lace design across its width.
• Dropped stitch fringe: Specific stitches are intentionally dropped and unraveled along the long edges to create a natural, ladder-like fringe — a technique that requires careful planning during construction.
• Garter stitch borders: Garter ridges are established at the set-up stage using knit and purl rounds, creating firm, non-curling edges along the short ends of the shawl.
• Long-tail cast on: The pattern specifies the long-tail method for casting on 364 stitches, providing a neat and elastic foundation edge.
• Stitch markers: Three stitch markers are used throughout — one in a contrasting color to mark the beginning of the round, and two additional markers to define the border sections from the central lace panel.

Stitches Used

• Lace stitches: Yarn-overs and paired decreases worked from a chart to create the openwork lace pattern across the body of the shawl.
• Garter stitch: Alternating knit and purl rounds worked in the round to produce garter ridges at the borders.
• Stockinette stitch: Used in the knit rounds between garter ridges and as the base fabric structure within the tube.
• Purl stitches: Used in the set-up and border rounds to define the garter texture and edge stitches.
• Dropped stitches: Deliberately dropped during finishing to create the signature fringe along the long edges.

Yarn and Materials

The pattern calls for 4 balls of Berroco Isola in colorway #8928 Burano, each ball weighing 100 grams. Berroco Isola is a