This shawl started as a curious experiment and will now become two completed patterns. One in knit and one in crochet. I have learned a lot along the way.
It started with mitered squares and then I wondered what would happen if I shifted the “spine”… I tried it first on a small bit of knitting with an open pattern.
It looked like it was going to go well. I worked a couple more rows, took some notes and then took it off of the needles to measure it.
Because I started with double the number of stitches one side of the spine compared to the other side of the spine I was confident in the work I was doing. That I was going to get a wonderful rectangle shawl.
Here is one of the charts I was working on in the fingering weight swatch.
As I went on, working on the piece at various groups and such, I was asked multiple times if it was crocheted. When it is laying just right, it looks like a granny square type stitch.
So I started working a crochet version.
Along the way in this process I put the knitted version on a piece thread and spread it out. Here is a link to the short of what happened when I spread it out.
I have figured out what was wrong in my thinking. I have since straightened it out and there is some simple math involved and that will be included with the pattern and step by step directions of how to use it.
I did have a moment where I thought I was going to pull out the piece and start again so that it wouldn’t be a square. But I have the crocheted piece that will be a rectangle. This knitted one will be a reminder of what I learned through this.
Special thanks to my children, who are both in upper years of math in high school and tried to help me out in finding the right formulas and such and for brainstorming with me.
Happy making!
Azariahs Fibre Arts 