NOTE: If you purchased a kit from A Verb for Keeping Warm, there’s no need to purchase this mystery, as a code for a free pattern download was included!

The first clue dropped 23 May, 2025 at 10am Pacific time, and that afternoon at 4pm Pacific, I’ll be having a YouTube Live to go over the first clue! Each Friday there will be a YouTube live for the clue released that day. Only techniques, with NO spoilers will be shown in the YouTube lives.

Welcome to my 2025 mystery shawl KAL: Funston. Some of my fondest memories are the days I took the Golden Gate Ferry into San Francisco from Marin County, passing by Angel Island. This year’s mystery is inspired by the most beautiful of those days: fresh cool air, crisp breeze, deep blue water and wisps of fog playing peekaboo with the sun. But why name the shawl Funston? This is my 13th annual mystery, and in San Francisco, the street that would have been named 13th Avenue is instead called…Funston Avenue.

This is a triangle using two colors of yarn. The Verb kits include one skein of Floating, Annapurna, or Rumor base (fingering weight) plus one skein of Frond base (mohair/silk lace weight). The pattern is designed so that you could also opt to use two skeins (one each of two colors) of fingering/sport weight of at least 385 yards rather than the one skein of fingering/sport + one skein of mohair lace. The first clue will be released digitally on May 23, 2025. The KAL will have 5 clues total, each one week apart. One year after the KAL is over, your mystery pattern will update to the full pattern.

We will be knitting together in the @Romi’s Studio Ravelry forum and in my Facebook group, and I will also be doing YouTube lives! You will get a full schedule in the time leading up to the first clue drop. The YouTube lives will remain accessible as recordings. I hope you’ll join us in the fun!!!

Hints before the first clue:

• Although Annapurna is listed as sport weight in the Ravelry database, I would say it is on the light side, and knits up like a fingering weight. Either sport or fingering weight will work. Floating and Rumor are fingering weight yarns.

• I am using the blue set of Floating + Frond.

• Remember: do not substitute a yarn of which you have less than 385 yards.

I can’t wait to knit with you all! xox

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