PUGCENTRIC PURSUITS
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • My Etsy Stores
  • Vintage Yarn Library
  • Projects
    • How I Crochet for the Dollhouse
    • Crocheting with leftover yarn
    • Embroidery Projects
    • Crochet Projects

Top down knit crescent shawl

9/26/2015

 
back of triangular knit shawl
Top down tip c
This was my first 100% wool shawl.  I knit it with a fingering-weight merino wool called Salvia from JL Yarn.  
I bought this yarn on eBay and it was so gorgeous that it went right on the needles, instead on into the stash.   I made a top-down triangular shawl using a free pattern called Rascal from the Drops Design website.  It is actually a child's kerchief, but I just kept going until I ran out of room on the needles.  (I used US 4 circular needles, and they were 36 inches long.)
​At that point, I had 357 stitches.  I stopped and worked an edging with one of Barbara Walker's openwork pattern stitches.  It's called Slip-Stitch Mesh and is a 6 row repeat for an odd number stitches.  It's mostly just knit, purl, with 2 rows of slip stitches and one row of yarn overs.  I did three repeats and decided I was done. 
Picture





















​​ I used two different colorways:  one was mostly turquoise shades, and the other one had a bold ​variegation that ran from turquoise to golden yellow to burgundy.    

​I alternated the colors every several rows, until I got to the end, then I worked the border with the turquoise only.

I  bound off with a crochet hook--working two stitches with single crochet, and 3 chains between each sc.  
I also worked a simple single crochet edging along the top edge.  I stitched this with both strands of yarn held together, working into the yo hole along each row.  It worked well to conceal the strands that were carried along the edge for the color changes.

I crocheted the flower on the shawl pin, which I worked with 16 gauge wire.

​The shawl pattern itself was very easy with mid-point YO increases every other row, and yo increases at each end on every row.  It took 3 months of working a few rows most every night.  I love how it turned out--very soft and supple!
Picture
Detail of shawl pin with crocheted flower

Comments are closed.

    RSS Feed


    Categories

    All
    Card Making
    Crochet
    Cross Stitch
    Embroidery
    Fast And Easy
    Flora And Fauna
    Knitting
    Miniature Crochet
    Papercrafts
    Sewing
    Shawls And Wraps
    Stashbuster


    Archives

    January 2019
    November 2018
    January 2018
    July 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    May 2016
    September 2015
    December 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012
    September 2012
    May 2011
    November 2010
    September 2010
    July 2010


  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • My Etsy Stores
  • Vintage Yarn Library
  • Projects
    • How I Crochet for the Dollhouse
    • Crocheting with leftover yarn
    • Embroidery Projects
    • Crochet Projects