This modern shawl combines a meditative stitch pattern with a stunning lace border to create a beautifully elegant crescent shape. Choose two colors of your favorite fingering weight yarn, or even stash bust with multiple colors.
Supplies Needed
- Emma’s Yarn Beautifully Basic, or comparable fingering weight yarn.
- Color A – Nailed It, 725 yards Color B – Beach Please, 235 yards
- 4.0 mm (US G) crochet hook, or size needed to meet gauge Darning needle
- Scissors
- Blocking supplies (sample was wet blocked and pinned).
Notes
- Shawl is worked in one piece.
- St counts are indicated in ( ) where there is a change, stitch counts are given in both hdc and clusters for ease of counting.
- Ch 2/3 at the beginning of a row does not count as a stitch.
- Gauge is blocked.
- Where stitch counts are given in the final section, they include spaces as stitches.
- After your initial foundation row, you will rotate your work to crochet into the opposite side of the foundation row instead of turning. All subsequent rows are turned and worked back and forth.
Abbreviations
- ch – chain
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- sp – space
- sk – skip
- fhdc – foundation half double crochet
- hdc – half double crochet
- blo – back loop only
- dc – double crochet
Measurements
68″ wide by 19.5″ deep (in the center).
Gauge
19 sts x 18 rows, in pattern repeat.
Pattern
With Color A:
Row 1: Fhdc 15, ch 3, rotate to work into the opposite side of the foundation ch. Row 2 (RS): 3hdc in first st, 2hdc in next 10, 3hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (32)
Row 3: 3hdc in first st, hdc across, 3hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (36)
Row 4: 3hdc in first st, hdc blo in each st across until one st remains, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (40)
Row 5: Repeat row 3. (44)
Row 6: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 5 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn.(53)
Row 7: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 1, ch 1, sk 1*, repeat from * to *across, hdc 1, 3hdc in last, ch 3, turn. (57)
Row 8: Repeat row 3. (61)
Row 9: Repeat row 3. (65)
Row 10: Repeat row 4. (69)
Row 11: Repeat row 3. (73)
Row 12: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 9 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (86)
Row 13: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 1, ch 1, sk 1*, repeat from * to *across, 3hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (90)
Row 14: Repeat row 3. (94)
Row 15: Repeat row 3. (98)
Row 16: Repeat row 4. (102)
Row 17: Repeat row 3. (106)
Row 18: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 14 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (124)
Rows 19 – 23: Repeat rows 13 – 17. (144)
Row 24: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 20 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (168)
Rows 25 – 29: Repeat rows 13 – 17. (188)
Row 30: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to *total of 26 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (218)
Rows 31 – 35: Repeat rows 13 – 17. (238)
Row 36: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 33 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (275)
Rows 37 – 41: Repeat rows 13 – 17. (295)
Row 42: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 41 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (340)
Rows 43 – 47: Repeat rows 13 – 17. (360)
Row 48: 3hdc in first st, *hdc 6, 2hdc in next* repeat from * to * total of 50 times, hdc to last st, 3 hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (414)
Rows 49 – 52: Repeat rows 13 – 16. (430) Fasten off.
Border
Attach Color B on the RS.
Row 53: 3hdc in first st, hdc across, 3hdc in last st, ch 3, turn. (434) Row 54: 3hdc in first st, hdc across, 3hdc in last st, ch 2, turn. (438)
Row 55: 3sc in first st, *sc 1, ch 3, sk 2*, repeat from * to * across, sc 1, 3 sc in last st, ch 2, turn. (442)
Row 56: 3sc in first st, sc 2, *ch 3, sc in next ch 3 sp*, repeat from * to * across, ch 3, sk 1, sc 2, 3sc in last st, ch 2, turn. (446)
Row 57: 3sc in first st, sc 3, *ch 1, 5dc in ch 3 sp, ch 1, sc in ch 3 sp*, repeat from * to * across, sc in each st to last st, 3sc in last st, ch 3, turn. (450)
Row 58: 3dc in first st, dc 8, ch 1, sk 1 dc, *dc 3, ch 3, sk 5*, repeat from * to * across, dc 3, ch1, sk 2, dc to last st, 3dc in last st, ch 2, turn. (454)
Row 59: 3sc in first st, sc 7, *ch 3, sc in center of 3dc, ch 3, sc in ch sp*, repeat from * to * across, ch 3, sk 3, sc in each st to last st, 3sc in last st, ch 2, turn.
Row 60: 3sc in first, sc 10, *ch 3, sc in next ch 3 sp*, repeat from * to * across, sc 9, 3sc in last st, ch 2, turn. Row 61: 3sc in first st, sc 12, *ch 1, 5dc in ch 3 sp, ch 1, sc in ch 3 sp*, repeat from * to * across, sc in each st to end, 3sc in last st, ch 2, turn.
Fasten off and weave in ends. Wet block to specified measurements.