Wrap Me In Rainbow Shawl

Almost a year ago, I designed the Wrap Me in Rainbow Shawl for Simply Crochet Magazine. One day, I got an e-mail from the editor, with a photo attached, asking me to make something similar in crochet (a knitted shawl I got as inspiration). I immediately said yes, because I love challenges!

My favorite things to design are by far clothes! But most of the Magazines or Yarn Brands I worked with asked for shawls or blankets. These two things are not my favorite, but I said yes every time.

Maybe you are asking why? Why do I say yes to something I don’t like to make? Well, it’s about me as Crochet Designer, my limits, and how to get over them, growing and learning. These projects helped me know many things, and I will always be grateful for these people’s opportunities.

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So, if you like colorful things, want the shape, and are ready to experiment with the short rows technique, I invite you to take a look at this pattern and give this pattern a try.

MATERIALS

• Yarn: Fingering weight yarn
• Crochet Hook:
o 3.5mm crochet hook

• yarn needle for weave in ends
• Stitch markers
• Scissors

NOTES ABOUT DESIGN

The Shawl Construction is modular. Each triangle is worked individually, continuing the previous one.
Obtain the triangle shape by working short rows. At the end of each triangle, add the indicated number of extra stitches and start the next triangle skipping the same amount of stitches added at the end of the previous row.

MEASUREMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

Ch – chain
sc – single crochet
fsc – foundation single crochet
tsc – twisted single crochet
St(s) – stitch(es)
R – rows
** – repeated section.

TENSION

Using 3.5 mm crochet hook in single crochet
17 sts = 10 cm
20 rows = 10cm

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STITCH PATTERN AND TECHNIQUES

Foundation single crochet (fdc)

For this particular pattern, use this stitch to add extra stitches before each triangle’s last row, except the last one.
Insert the hook perpendicular with the last st (side row), yarn over, and pull out a loop, yarn over and pass it through the first loop, yarn over and pass it through both loops on your hook.
*insert the hook through the bottom loops of the previous st, yarn over and pull out a loop, yarn over and pass it through the first loop, yarn over and pass it through both loops on your hook.*
**repeat for the indicated number of sts.

Twisted Single Crochet (tdc)

Insert the hook into the next st, yarn over, and pull out a loop; turn your hook 180 degrees, clockwise, yarn over, and pass it through both loops on your hook.

PATTERN NOTES

Work the piece flat; turn after each row.
Ch1 at the end of each row; ch1 does not count as the first sc

INSTRUCTIONS

Using color Purple (9938)
Start: ch115 sts.
R1: 1sc in each st until the end of the row (114 sc)
R2: rep.R1
R3: 1sc in each of the next sts, except the last 3. Ch1 and turn.
R4: 1sc in each of the next sts.
R5 – R76: Repeat R3 and R4 37 times, or until you have 3 sts left
R78 (work the diagonal of the triangle, over the short rows)
1sc in first 3 sts, *sc2tog (in the space between previous 2 rows and the next stitch), 1sc in next 2 sts*. **repeat until the end of the row (114 dc). Finish the row with 20fsc
R79: 1sc in each st until the end of the row (134 sc)
Cut the yarn and change the color.

Start next row, using the next color in the stitch 21 (skip first 20 sts)
Rep. R3 to R79
Next, repeat the same pattern with each of the following colors.

Don’t add the extra stitches when finishing the last triangle after completing the row on top of the short rows (see R78). Turn and work the final row.

EDGING

Using color purple
Work the edging in rounds around the entire shawl.
In each exterior corner work, 3sc in the same stitch
In each inner corner, work sc3tog
At the end of the round, join with a slip stitch
R1: 1sc in each st around.
R2: 1tsc in each stitch around.

TO FINISH
Weave in all ends and block to measurements.

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