With stripes and a central line, like the the ripples behind a boat this unusual rhombus shaped shawl worked in a biased fabric is simple to make and elegant to wear.
Mix up the colours and play with the stripes for a different look.
Size
Wingspan: 203cm/80in
Depth: 41cm/16in
Materials
1x 100g skein 4 ply yarn - Col A
1x 100g skein 4 ply yarn - Col B
4.5mm (US 7) hook
Tension
20 sts and 14 rows in rows in htr only to 10 cm/4 in using 3.5 mm hook (or size needed to achieve tension)
Difficulty rating
Easy
Skills needed
Basic crochet stitches, working in rows, raised (post) stitches, decreasing, increasing.
Construction
The shawl starts at the point at one end with increases on each edge and decreases around the central line of raised trebles to create the biased fabric. At the central point the increase and decrease pattern alters to keep the stitch count even but continue to create a biased fabric.
This pattern is charted and written using standard UK crochet terminology (with US conversions given in the abbreviations)
