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The Long Island Shawl Crochet Pattern is a beautiful, lace rectangular shawl that is very easy to make!
It seems like forever ago that I posted the Brier Island Shawl (and it has been a year)! At the time I was asked if I could create and adapt the pattern into a rectangle shawl and I am pleased to be finally posting it here today!
The Long Island Shawl crochet pattern is named after the island between mainland Nova Scotia and Brier Island. It is a beautiful drive, home to a few small communities and where we often stay at a cottage when we travel there.
In the summers I love waking to the ocean breeze, listening to the sound of the boats coming and going and the calls of the sea birds. I love to watch the fog roll in, and then patiently wait for it to roll out!
The island fog is the reason for choosing the colours I did for the shawl. You can, of course, switch it up as per your own inspiration.
How to Make the Long Island Crochet Shawl:
The Long Island Shawl crochet pattern is rectangular in shape and worked along the long edge. You will work from the top down to the bottom. Yes, it does make for a very long foundation starting chain, but I wanted to start this way in order to have the colouring in the shawl fade from dark at the top to light at the bottom. Along the bottom edge, you will finish the shawl with a beautiful, delicate picot edging.
The shawl is about 78 inches long and 16 inches wide and I used about 1600 yards of a 5 ply cotton yarn. You may adjust the length and width as desired.
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What type of yarn should I use for my crochet shawl?
The yarn I chose is a sport weight gradient yarn cake with 1600 yards. You can work a crochet shawl in almost any fibre, this particular one is worked in a cotton cake by Panda Yarns. The colour is called We Are Anything But Lost which I feel in itself, suits Long Island perfectly!
I have used Panda Yarns for a number of crochet shawls that you will find here on Rich Textures Crochet including the Oceans Shawl and the Amethyst Shawl. It’s one of my favourite yarns to work a shawl in for the colours of cakes that are available, the yardage and the drape of the final project. It’s simply gorgeous.
A little note about the yarn used:
There are a couple of this to take note of when working with this yarn – it is a 5 ply and made up of 5 strands a thread that are held together. As your work progresses you may notice (or not!) a tiny not where a new colour thread is joined. This allows for the colours to smoothly and slowly blend into one another.
As the cake is created using five strands of thread that are loosely spun together, when working with it you will want to make sure that it doesn’t split as you catch it on your hook. But the more you work with it, the more you get used to it and I know you will love the results.
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Long Island Shawl Crochet Pattern:
Skill Level: Intermediate
Gauge: 18 sts x 24 rows of sc = 4 inches
Finished Size: 16 inches x 78 inches
Yarn: 1 Gradient Cake by Panda Yarns (100% Cotton; 5 ply, 1600 yards). Colour: We Are Anything But Lost.
Hook: Size G (4 mm) Hook. Adjust hook size if necessary to obtain correct gauge.
Notions: Yarn Needle.
Stitches and Abbreviations:
Beg CL – Beginning Cluster ([Ch 2, dc] into the same st.)
Beg CL V-St – Beginning Cluster V Stitch ([Beg CL, ch 1, CL] into the same st. Cluster V Stitch Made.)
Ch – Chain
CL – Cluster Stitch ([Yo, insert your hook into the stitch indicated, yo and draw up a loop, yo and draw through 2 loops on your hook] twice, yo and draw through remaining 3 loops on your hook. Cluster Stitch made.)
CL Shell – Cluster Shell ([CL v-st, ch 2, CL v-st) in the indicated stitch. CL Shell made.)
CL V-St – Cluster V Stitch ([CL, ch 1, CL] into the same st. Cluster V Stitch Made.)
Dc – Double Crochet
Picot – Picot Stitch (Ch 3, sl st into the 3rd ch from your hook. Picot made.)
Rpt – Repeat
Sc – Single Crochet
Sk – Skip
Sl st – Slip stitch
Sp – Space
Yo – Yarn over
Pattern Notes:
- Pattern is written in American English terms.
- Pattern is worked in rows.
- Pattern is a for a triangular shaped shawl.
- Ch 1 at the beginning of the row does not count as a stitch.
- Ch 3 at the beginning of the row counts as a double crochet stitch.
- Weave in ends as needed.
- To change the length of your shawl, you will need a multiple of 4 + 2 stitches.
Free Crochet Pattern:
Ch 342.
Row 1: Sc in the 2nd ch from your hook and in each st across. Turn.
Row 2: Beg CL in the 1st st, sk the next st, *CL v-st in the next st, sk the next 2 sts; Rpt from * across until 3 sts remain, CL v-st in the next st, sk the next st, CL in the final st. Turn.
Row 3: Beg CL in the 1st st, *CL v-st in the next ch-1 sp; Rpt from * across to the final st, CL in the top of the final st. Turn.
Rows 4-25: Repeat row 3.
(NOTE: if you would like a wider shawl, continue to repeat rows 3 and for until you reach the desired length)
Row 26: Sc in the 1 st, sc in each st and each ch-1 sp across. Ch 2 (does not count as a st), turn.
Row 27: Dc in the 1st st, dc in each of the next 2 sts, *ch 1, sk the next st, dc in the next st; Rpt from * across to the final 2 sts, dc in each of the final 2 sts. Ch 2 (does not count as a st), turn.
Rows 28-31: Dc in the 1st st, dc in each of the next 2 sts, *ch 1, sk the next ch-1 sp, dc in the next st; Rpt from * across to the final 2 sts, dc in each of the final 2 sts. Ch 2 (does not count as a st), turn.
Row 32: Sc in the 1 st, sc in each st and each ch-1 sp across. Ch 2 (does not count as a st), turn.
Row 33: Beg CL in the 1st st, sk the next st, *CL v-st in the next st, sk the next 2 sts; Rpt from * across until 3 sts remain, CL v-st in the next st, sk the next st, CL in the final st. Turn.
Rows 34-39: Beg CL in the 1st st, *CL v-st in the next ch-1 sp; Rpt from * across to the final st, CL in the top of the final st. Turn.
Row 40: Sc in the 1 st, sc in each st and each ch-1 sp across. Ch 2 (does not count as a st), turn.
Row 41: Sc in the 1st st, picot, *sc in each of the next 3 sts, picot; Rpt from * across ending with a sc in the final st.
Fasten off, weave in ends.
Video Tutorial:
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