Tango Shawl
Tango Shawl
Skill Level:
Finished Size: 50" long X 31" wide
Materials:
- Crochet hook: 6.0 mm (US-J)
- 1 ball Lion Brand Shawl in a Ball (Worsted/4: 5.3 oz, 518 yds)
- Illustrated in Metallic Prisim colorway
Abbreviations:
Special Stitch:
Wrap St — (2 dc cluster wrapped around the last 2 sts): *Yo and placing hook in front of previous 2 sts, yo with working yarn held behind previous 2 sts, pull loop up to left of previous 2 sts, yo and pull through 2 loops on hook. (2 sts remain on hook) Repeat from *, end with 3 loops remaining on hook. Yo and pull through all 3 loops.
Notes and Tips:
Place a stitch marker on the increase side of the shawl after the first few rows, and move it up every so often as you work. Then you can always tell at a glance if you're on an increase side of the row or a decrease side (even vs odd numbered row). (And it's right there if you need to secure your working loop when you put the project down between crochet sessions!)
If you prefer a larger shawl, you will need to purchase an additional skein of Shawl in a Ball, but you can just continue with the 4 row repeats until you get the size desired.
If you do not like the Chainless Starting Double Crochet (abbreviated CSDC), you can substitute a ch 3 for the stitch.
The "Ch 2, skip the first st, dc in the next st" at the beginning of each even numbered row act as a dc2tog — do not crochet into the top of the ch 2 on the odd numbered rows.
Instructions: - Row 1: Make a magic circle, CSDC in the ring, 2 dc in the ring; close magic circle and turn. (3 sts)
- Row 2:: Ch 2, skip the first st, dc in the next st, 3 dc in the last st; turn. (4 sts)
- Row 3: CSDC in the first st, 2 dc in the same st, dc in the next st, dc2tog; turn. (5 sts)
- Row 4: Ch 2, skip the first st, dc in the next st, skip the next st, dc in the last 2 sts, wrap st, 2 dc in the last st; turn. (6 sts)
- Row 5: CSDC in the first st, 2 dc in the same st, dc in the next 3 sts, dc2tog; turn. (7 sts)
- Row 6: Ch 2, skip the first st, dc in the next st, *skip the next st, dc in the next 2 sts, wrap st, dc in the next st; rep from * until 1 st remains, 3 dc in the last st; turn. (8 sts)
- Row 7: CSDC in the first st, 2 dc in the same st, dc in each st until 2 sts remain, dc2tog; turn. (9 sts)
- Row 8: Ch 2, skip the first st, dc in the next st, *skip the next st, dc in the next 2 sts, wrap st,** dc in the next st; rep from * ending last rep at **, 2 dc in the last st (same st as last dc before wrap st); turn. (10 sts)
- Row 9: Repeat Row 7.
- Row 10 - 77: (or to size desired): Repeat Rows 6 � 9, with the stitch count increasing by 1 for each row.
- Row 78: Ch 1, sc in each st across; break yarn and weave in ends. Lightly block if needed.