Zen Garden Shawl – Free Crochet Pattern
The Zen Garden Shawl is a vibrant pink and purple shawl made in thread yarn with a lacy design. The easy and repetitive stitching is comforting as you crochet along. Then finish it off with a lacy stitch and beautiful border for a stunning shawl to keep for yourself or to give away to a loved one. Scroll down for the free crochet pattern.
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This shawl is versatile in the ways you can wear it, as a shawl with the ends in front, or wrapped around your neck like a scarf, or with a brooch on one side. You can change the look of it by the way you wear it.
The yarn I used is from Red Heart and is called It’s A Wrap Rainbow in the color Parfait. The colors in this are lovely, starting at the top of the shawl in a pretty light pink, and changing to a vibrant hot pink, and then the purple color, and finally ending with the violet edging. The yarn changes color and does all the color work for you!
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I chose to begin the shawl in a larger hook to give it a lot of drape. The cluster stitches are all made in the larger hook. I changed to the smaller hook to make the v-stitches and edging.
Zen Garden Shawl
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Skill Level: Intermediate
Size/Measurements: 56” Wide x 16” Long
Supplies:
Yarn: Red Heart It’s A Wrap Rainbow (1 cake or 623 yards)
Color: Parfait
Hook: F (3.75 mm)
Hook: J (6.00 mm)
Yarn needle
Yarn Label Information:
Red Heart It’s A Wrap Rainbow
Yarn Weight: 2 – Fine
Yarn Cake: 623 yards / 570 meters
Unit Weight: 150 grams (5.29 ounces)
Fibers: 55% Acrylic, 45% Cotton
Care: Machine wash cold, gentle cycle. Lay flat to dry.
Gauge: 6 rows and 4 clusters = 4 inches in cluster stitch before blocking.
Abbreviations In US Terminology:
ch(s) – chain(s)
dc – double crochet
sc – single crochet
sp(s) – space(s)
st(s) – stitch(es)
tr – treble crochet
Special Stitches:
2 Double Crochet Cluster V-stitch (cluster): yo, insert hook in indicated st, yo, pull through st , yo, pull through 2 loops on hook, *yo, insert hook in same st, yo, pull through st, yo, pull through 2 loops on hook*, yo, pull through 3 loops on hook, ch 1, repeat *-* 2 times, yo pull through 3 loops on hook. (1 cluster made).
V-Stitch (v-st): [ tr, ch 3, tr], in ch-1 sp of previous cl or in ch-3 sp of previous v-st. (1 v-st made).
Notes:
1. Worked top down in rows.
2. Ch 3 and Ch 4 does count as a stitch throughout.
3. Stitch counts are in ( ) at the ends of the Rows.
Instructions:
With J Hook: Ch 174
Row 1: Cluster in 6th ch from hook (skipped 5 chs count as 1 dc, 2 skipped chs), * cluster in next ch, skip 2 chs, repeat from *, end with dc in last ch. (56 clusters, 2 dc).
Row 2: Ch 3, turn, cluster in each ch-1 sp across, end with dc in top of beg ch-6. (56 clusters, 2 dc).
Row 3-17: Repeat Row 2, end with dc in top of beg ch-3. (56 clusters, 2 dc).
With F Hook:
Row 18: Ch 4, turn, v-st in each ch-1 sp across, end with tr in top of beg ch-3. (56 v-sts, 2 tr).
Row 19: Ch 4, turn, v-st in each ch-3 sp across, end with tr in top of beg ch-4. (56 v-sts, 2 tr).
Row 20: Repeat Row 19.
Row 21: Ch 3, turn, cluster in each ch-3 sp across, end with dc in top of beg ch-4. (56 clusters, 2 dc).
Row 22: Ch 1, turn, sc in same st, *skip 1 cluster, 7 tr between next cluster, skip next cluster, sc between next cluster, repeat from *, end with sc in top of beg ch-3. (28 7-tr fans, 28 sc).
Row 23: Ch 1, turn, sc in same st, *[ch 3, sc in next st] 7x, sc in next st, repeat from * across, end with sc in last st. (7 ch-3 sps in each fan, OR 196 ch-3 sps).
Finishing:
Block item.
End of Pattern
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