Eva’s Shawl - Pattern « Without Seams

I’ve had a few requests for the pattern so I thought I would get my act together and write the pattern up. I will be putting together a pdf with a more polished version of the pattern soon, but for those who are impatient to start, here are the rough instuctions.

This pattern should work with any weight of yarn. I am using heavy lace weight for my shawls with a size 4mm hook, and a decent sized shawl takes about 100g of laceweight yarn. The shawl is crocheted top down, with increases every row, and can be made any size - just stop crocheting when it’s a bit smaller than the desired size (bearing in mind that if you are using blockable fibres (e.g. wool , alapca, cashmere) it will increase in size when it is blocked). To get a nice lacey shawl you will need to use a larger hook size than that normally recommended for the weight of yarn - play with different hook sizes until you are happy with the results.

Very important! - These instructions use UK terminology, and I will be using the following abbreviations

TC = UK treble crochet = US double crochet

DC = UK double crochet = US single crochet

Ch = Chain

Ch Sp incr = TC, Ch1, TC into Ch Space

Instructions

Chain 4 and join with slip stitch
Row 1: Ch 3 (counts as 1st TC) One TC into ring, Ch1, (2 TC into ring, Ch1) x 2, 2TC into ring, turn
Row 2: Ch 3,1 TC into base on turning ch, 1 TC into next stitch, Ch sp incr, (TC into next 2 stitches, ch sp incr) x 2,1 TC into next stitch, 2TC into top of turning ch, turn
Row 3: Ch 3, 1 TC at base of turning chain, (TC to ch1 space, ch sp incr, placing marker in ch 1 space)x 3, TC to end working 2 TC into top of turning chain, turn
Row 4 (eyelet row): Ch 3, TC at base of turning chain,ch1, miss one TC *(TC in next 2 stitches, Ch1, miss one TC) to stitch before next marked Ch 1 sp, 1 TC, ch sp increase, remove marker and place in ch 1 space of Ch Sp incr, 1 TC, ch 1, repeat from*3 times, TC into next stitch ch1, (2 TC, Ch1) to end of row, 2TC into turning ch, turn
Row 5: Ch 3, 1 TC into base of turning ch,* work across to next marker, working 1 TC into each stitch and each ch 1 space, ch sp increase (replacing marking in ch 1 space), repeat from* twice, then work to end of row working 1 TC in each stitch and each ch 1 space, 2 TC in turning ch
Here’s how it should look after the first five rows…

Row 6: repeat row 3
Row 7: repeat row 4

Repeat last three rows until shawl is desired size, ending with a Row 6 row

Border
Row 1: Ch 4, skip first stitch, (DC into next st, Ch 3 skip next stitch) to end of row
Row 2: Ch 4, DC into first Ch space, (Ch 3, DC into next Ch Space) to end finishing with a Ch 4, DC into base of turning Ch from previous row.

Fasten off, weave in ends and block.

22 Responses to “Eva’s Shawl - Pattern”

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1 LisaB January 25, 2008 at 2:19 am

Thanks so much for posting this - it’s lovely! So wonderful to see laceweight yarns being used in crochet, I love it! (Got here via Ravelry)
2 thekidneybean January 25, 2008 at 2:40 am

What a beautiful shawl! I’ve never worked with lace weight yarn before. This looks like a great pattern to try it out and I love that it can be worked with other yarn weights. THanks for the pattern!
3 obodil January 25, 2008 at 9:51 pm

thanks for the ravelry message! now i need to find me some nice yarn to start the project.
4 jd in st. louis January 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm

i’ve been looking for a pattern for a lace weight shawl since i found some great lace weight yarn at my LYS. now i have a reason to buy it! this shawl is just lovely! thanks SO much for offering the pattern to the rest of the world.

i have a question though. the intro do the pattern states that it’s worked from the top down with increases. to me the ‘top’ is the neckline. am i reading this wrong? if one starts at the neckline, there should be consistent decreases. so, does it start from the ‘bottom’ or point?
thanks,
jd in st. louis
5 milobo January 26, 2008 at 7:35 pm

It starts at the centre of the neck, with just a few stitches, and eight stitches are increased per row. The row edge stitches form the top edge of the shawl, which gets wider as the shawl grows.
6 Karen January 26, 2008 at 9:01 pm

Your shawl is very pretty. Thanks for sharing the pattern!
7 Eva January 26, 2008 at 11:13 pm

I found your blog through the L&V Daily Chum… and although I don’t do crochet, I’ll have to make this shawl as you’ve been soooooo nice to name it after me hehehe!!!

Cheers Eva
8 riotflower January 28, 2008 at 1:01 pm

That’s a Very nice shawl- thank you for sharing the pattern!
9 mimi February 29, 2008 at 2:29 am

Thanks for the pattern, I love your design!
I have photos of my FO in my blog and on Ravelry.
10 Deneen February 29, 2008 at 3:13 pm

It’s lovely and thanks for sharing. I just ordered some laceweight yarn to get it started!
11 Michelle March 2, 2008 at 12:35 am

This is lovely! Thank you for sharing the pattern!
12 Sharon March 2, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Very beautiful. Thank you for the pattern.
13 Kathy March 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Thanks for this pattern! I have not had success knitting with lace weight and I think I will give it a go with crochet instead!
14 Kelly April 1, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Thank you for posting the pattern. I just started it last night with some yarn I scored from the dollar store. It is working up very pretty.
15 Ann April 17, 2008 at 4:57 am

I have some fine 2ply lace weight wool and it is coming up nicely. What I did do was do ch2 on the corners because I found it hard to see where the corners were. Now I have no problems Thank you, Eva.
16 titus2woman May 2, 2008 at 6:45 pm

OH how lovely both this and your Carmen shawl are! *THANK YOU!* for sharing the patterns~I hope to do one of them some day…. (((((HUGS))))) sandi
17 Christina May 7, 2008 at 4:35 pm

I love this shawl pattern so much. I just got some beautiful lace weight to make summer shawls and this pattern works up quickly and easily. Thanks for sharing your beautiful pattern