A Maine Yarn Cruise crochet-along by Kate Veselunka & Design Crochet
Available July 1 as a traditional PDF pattern—with an interactive follow-along experience included.
Whether you love printed patterns or crochet from your phone, the Hue Shift Shawl gives you both options.
Purchase once and choose the experience that works best for you:
- Follow the PDF exactly as you always have
- Or unlock the interactive version and crochet row-by-row with progress tracking, stitch support, and color planning built in.
Crochet the Maine Yarn Cruise in Color
Designed by Kate Veselunka, the Hue Shift Shawl celebrates color, movement, and the joy of discovering new yarns along the Maine Yarn Cruise route.
This pattern works beautifully with hand-dyed yarns and curated color palettes, making it the perfect project for cruise purchases, stash treasures, or a combination of both.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Yarn
Designed with Hue Loco Single Sock, but easily adaptable to your favorite yarn and color combinations.
What's Included
PDF Pattern
Perfect if you:
- like printing your patterns
- prefer working offline
- enjoy marking progress by hand
Interactive Pattern
Included with every pattern purchase.
Perfect if you've ever:
- lost your place while crocheting from your phone
- bounced between charts and written instructions
- forgotten what row you were on after setting down a project
- searched YouTube for stitch help in the middle of a row
The interactive version keeps your current row, chart, written instructions, and stitch support together in one place.
No app required.
Use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
How It Works
Why We're Excited About Interactive Patterns
Crochet patterns have changed very little over the years.
Most were designed for paper first and later adapted to screens.
We're exploring what happens when a pattern is designed to be followed digitally from the beginning.
The goal isn't to replace PDFs.
It's to give crocheters another option—one that makes it easier to stay focused on making instead of managing documents.
When you purchase the Hue Shift Shawl, you'll get both experiences and can decide which you prefer.
Join the Crochet-Along
The Maine Yarn Cruise community kickoff begins in mid-July.
Share your yarn choices, progress photos, questions, and finished shawls with fellow makers.
There are no deadlines and no required pace.
Start when you're ready and crochet at your own speed.
Be Part of the First Wave
The Hue Shift Shawl is one of the first patterns available in Design Crochet's interactive format.
If you decide to try the interactive version, we'd love your feedback.
Every suggestion helps us make future patterns easier to follow, more enjoyable to use, and better suited to the way crocheters actually work.
Available July 1
Purchase the pattern through Kate's shop and unlock both the PDF and interactive experience.
Meet the designer
[Kate’s bio]
Why this pattern: [1–2 sentences from Kate on inspiration + connection to the cruise.]
Find Kate
About Design Crochet
Design Crochet is building tools that make crochet patterns easier to follow in the moments that matter most—while you’re actually making.
We started with a simple question: what if patterns didn’t fight against the way people actually crochet on phones, tablets, and in real life?
This interactive version of the Hue Shift Shawl is one of our first experiments in answering that question. It’s still crochet first—just with a little more support along the way.
We’re learning as we go, and if you choose to try it, thank you for being part of that process.
→ Learn more: https://designcrochet.com
