Crescent Shawlette Pattern: A Simple Lace Shawl for Fall and Summer Evenings with Detailed Knitting Instructions and Charts

Crescent

Crescent is a simple shawlette to wrap around your neck and ward off a fallchill or cover your shoulders on a cool summer evening. It's a quick little piece of lace that will

Materials List

Bohemia Fibers - Barefoot Sock (400 yds/100g) 1 skein. Shown in Target Practice. Requires 300 yds. of fingering weight yarn for shawlette and 20 yds. of fingering weight for swatch. US size 5 (3.75 mm) 40" circular needle, or needle to get gauge

Gauge

Stockinette (blocked): 17 stitches x 33 rows = 4"\* Lace panel (1 - blocked): 3.5’” wide For best gauge swatch, cast on 36 stitches and work two lace patterns across the swatch. Work Lace Rows 1-16 twice. Soak and severely block to open up the lace pattern.

Finished Size

50.5" x 11" - see schematic on p. 2

Notes

Row 1 of the Lace pattern is the wrong side of the shawl Short Rows: You will notice an unnatural gap between the two stitches at the turn in the previous row; they may even be a different color if you are using a variegated yarn. You will knit (purl) the two stitches together as directed to close the gap. You can double check your stitch count by adding the total stitches in the previous row minus 1 to get the actual stitch count before the gap. Refer to Chart 2 on pg. 3 for the Stitch Counts before the gap stitches for each row. Each row wil have 4 more stitches before the gap stitches than the previous row.

Key

K2tog: knit 2 together P2tog: purl 2 together YO: yarn over K2togtbl: Knit 2 together through the back loops (you can also use a ssk - slip, slip, knit) K3tog: Knit 3 stitches together Sl1, k2tog, psso: Slip 1, knit 2 together, pass slipped stitch over this new stitch P2togtbl: purl 2 together through the back loop - bring right hand needle to the back of the fabric and enter the next 2 stitches from left to right, yo and draw the new stitch through both loops and drop the stitches from the left hand needle.

Lower lace edge

Row 1: Work Chart 1: Lace Chart (on pg. 3) or written directions below 14 times over the cast on stitches. Work the 16rows of each lace repeat twice and then work rows 1-7 again. Then begin Short Row Body.

Written Lace Directions

Row 1 (WS) and all odd rows except 5 and 13: p across. Row 2 (RS): \*k2, yo, k2tog, yo, (k2tog) 3 times, k2, yo, k3, yo, k2togtbl, yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (14 repeats, 240 stitches) Row4: \*k2, yo, k2tog, (k3tog) twice, yo, k, yo, k2, (k2togtbl, yo) twice\* to last 2 stitches, k2. (212) Row 5 (WS): p11, p2tog, \*p 13, p2tog\* 13 times to last 4 stitches, p4. (198) Row 6: \*k2, yo, k3tog, yo, k3, yo, K2, (k2togtbl, yo) twice\*, to last 2 stitches, k2. (212) Row 8: \*k2, yo, k2tog, yo, k, (yo, K2, k2togtbl) twice, yo, k2togtbl, yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (240) Row 10: \*k2, yo, k2tog, yo, k3, yo, k2, (k2togtbl) 3 times, yo, k2togtbl, yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (240) Row 12: \*k2, (yo, k2tog) twice, k2, yo, k, yo, (sl1, k2tog, psso) twice, k2togtbl, yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (212) Row 13 (WS): p4, p2togtbl, \*p13, p2togtb1\* 13 times, p11. (198) Row 14: \*k2, (yo, k2tog) twice, k2, yo, k3, yo, (sl1, k2tog, psso), yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (212) Row 16: \*k2, (yo, k2tog) twice, k2, yo, k2tog, k2, yo, k, yo, k2togtbl, yo \* to last 2 stitches, k2. (240)

Short Row Body

Row 1: (RS): k 111, turn. Row 2: p9, turn. Row 3: k8, k2togtbl, k4, turn. Row 4: p12, p2tog, p4, turn. Row 5: k to last stitch before the turn in the previous row, k2togtbl, k4, turn. Row 6: p to the last stitch before the turn in the previous row, p2tog, p4, turn. Rows 7 - 42: repeat rows 5 & 6 - 18 more times. Use Chart 2 on pg. 3 for the stitch counts before the gap stitches. Row 43: k to last stitch before the turn in the previous row, k2togtbl, k5, turn. Row 44: p to last stitch before the turn in the previous row, p2tog, p6, turn. (172) Row 45: k2, \* yo, k2tog\* to last 2 stitches, yo, k2 (173) Row 46: p, p2tog, p, \* yo, p2tog\* to last 3 stitches, yo, p3. (173) Row 47: k across. Row 48: p across. Bind off loosely. Use needle 2 or 3 sizes larger if you have trouble getting a loose bind off. Soak and block your shawl. Weave in the ends once your shawl is dry.

Chart 1: Lace Chart

Key Kon RS, P on WS YO 人k2tog 入k2togtbl 人k3tog △p2tog no stitch Msl 1, k2tog, psso 入p2tog tbl WS row

Chart 2: Number of Stitches Before the Turn Gap Stitches by Row