Crescent shawl

Most knitting charts come as rectangles but shawl shapes vary. Today I show you how converting charts for crescent shawls works!

The Afflouncement Shawl is an elongated garter stitch crescent. It uses a higher rate of increases than usual to give a longer narrower shawl than a standard crescent shape.

Crescent shawls have been very popular shawl shapes for a few years and don’t seem to lose any popularity among knitters all over the world so far. Guess it’s time to devote some time to explain how to knitting crescent shawls in detail: how do they look like, and how can they be constructed?

The garter tab cast on is a popular technique used to start top-down shawl patterns. In this video, shawl expert Michele Lee Bernstein explains her method of making a better garter tab when working a top-down crescent shawl. Michele begins by showing several crescent shawl swatches. She notes that in some cases, a small but…

Blue colour way Grey and beige colour way 200g Alize cotton/acrylic DK yarn 4mm hook US Terms I do not consider this pattern a beginners pattern, you need to be experienced in front and back post stitches and adding new post stitches into a curve. IMPORTANT NOTES: SIDE ROWS ARE MOSTLY WORKED INTO THE SIDE OF ALL THE DC OF THE BASE BAND ON THE SHAPED SIDE NOT THE STRAIGHT SIDE, YOU START AND FINISH WITH 3TR IN THE FIRST AND LAST ST. All front post stitches are trebles and done on even rows…

Fun and straightforward, crescent shape shawls are started at the top and worked down. Aggressive blocking with a stretchy bind-off...

I have a new shawl design, Lucky Star. It features an elongated garter tab cast on at the beginning, designed to minimize the hump that can occur at the center neck of top down crescent shawls. Man…

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Garter tab cast onThis half pi shawl starts with a garter tab. Cast on 3 stitches, knit 4 rows then pick up 2 stitches along the edge of your work and 3 stitches along the cast on edge (8 sts, 6 edge and 2 middle).Row 1Knit all stitches (8 sts).Row 2An increase row: Knit 3 ...

When you're picking a shawl pattern, or designing your own, there are a few basic construction recipes to start from. You can start with the recipe and alter it by adding texture, lace, color. You can also add a knitted-on border after the basic shape is made.