How To Crochet MCLace Shawl Pattern Step By Step
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Crochet MCLace Shawl Pattern
MATERIALS
- Yarn: Hjertegran New Arezzo, Sport / 5 ply (5 balls) – Each ball: 164 yards / 150 meters, 1.76 ounces / 50 grams
- Hook: US size E4 / 3.5 mm
MEASUREMENTS
- Width: 15 inches / 38 centimeters
- Length: 55 inches / 140 centimeters
- Gauge: (in single crochet) 20 stitches x 24 rows = 4 inches / 10 centimeters
ABBREVIATIONS (US TERMINOLOGY)
- Slst: Slip stitch
- Ch: Chain stitch
- Sc: Single crochet
- Fsc: Floating single crochet – make a floating ring, yarn over and pull through 2 loops on hook.
- FR: Floating Ring
- MW: Mini wheel – a small motif worked all at once or in stages, consisting of a Fsc and 7 single crochets.
- SQ: Square – a group of 16 mini wheels (4 x 4). The shawl as shown is made up of 4 x 13 SQs.
- VCh: Vertical chain
SHAPE AND STRUCTURE
- The shawl is rectangular in shape, and it consists of Squares (SQs). Each SQ is made up of 16 mini wheels.
- Each mini wheel within a SQ is separated by 3 chain stitches, and each SQ is separated by 6 chain stitches.
- A set of SQs refers to a row of 4 SQs. The first SQ on the left edge will have incomplete mini wheels (MWs).
SIZE AND MODIFICATIONS
- The shawl is 4 SQs wide by 13 SQs long. This is easy to modify if you desire your shawl to be a different size.
CREATING THE SHAWL
- You will start with a setup row that establishes the pattern.
- After that, you will alternate between a return row and a foundation row.
- After a set of SQs have been worked, instead of a normal foundation row, you will work a “Tall foundation row” to start the next set of SQs.
- Once all 13 sets of SQs have been worked, to finish the remaining MWs, you will work what is essentially a return row along the left edge of the shawl.
Here’s the provided crochet pattern instructions reorganized into a plain, unboxed format:
Note: Unless otherwise stated, all single crochets are worked into the most recently made Floating Ring.
Step 1: Setup row (worked from left to right)
- Start: Fsc, 7sc, slst in next st, ch3
- Repeat two times:
- Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3
- Continue:
- Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, ch6
- Begin next SQ:
- Repeat three times: (Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3)
- After third repeat: Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, ch6
- Repeat from * 1 more time
- Begin last SQ:
- Repeat three times: (Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3)
Step 2: Return row
- Start: Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3
- Repeat two times:
- SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3
- Continue:
- SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6
- Continue to next SQ:
- Repeat three times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- After third repeat: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6
- Repeat from * 1 more time
- Last SQ:
- Repeat two times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- End with: Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook.
For Step 3: Foundation row
- Start:
- Repeat two times: (Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- Continue: Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, ch6, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW
- Continue to next SQ:
- Repeat three times: (Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- After third repeat: Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, ch6, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW
- Repeat from * 1 more time
- Last SQ:
- Repeat two times: (Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- End with: Ch3, Fsc, sc, ch3, slst into 10th st behind the hook, Ch3, slst into 2nd st of next MW, ch3.
Step 4:
Repeat the instructions given for the Return row (Step 2).
Step 5: Repeat the instructions given for the Foundation row (Step 3).
For Step 6: Repeat the instructions for the Return row (Step 2), completing a set of squares (SQs).
Step 7:
Tall Foundation Row (beginning the next set of SQs)
- Start:
- Repeat two times: (Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, Ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- Continue: Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, ch6, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW
- Begin next SQ:
- Repeat three times: (Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, Ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- After third repeat: Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, ch6, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW
- Repeat from * 1 more time
- Begin last SQ:
- Repeat two times: (Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, Ch3, SlSt into 2nd st of next MW)
- End with: Ch6, Fsc, sc, ch6, slst into 16th st behind the hook, Ch3, slst into 2nd st of next MW, ch6.
Step 8: Repeat the following sequence until there are 12 rows of SQs:
- Return row (Step 2), Foundation row (Step 3) three times
- Return row, Tall foundation row (Step 7)
For Step 9: Last (13th) Set of SQs
- Repeat the sequence of Return row (Step 2), Foundation row (Step 3) three times.
- Last row:
- Start: Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3
- Continue:
- Repeat two times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- End: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6.
- Continue to the next square (SQ):
- Repeat three times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- End: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6
- Repeat from * one more time
- For the last SQ:
- Repeat two times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- Finish: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch3
Step 10 Finish left edge:
- Continuing around same SQ:
- Start: Fsc, 7sc, slst around ch3; ch3
- Repeat two times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- Continue: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6
- Continue to the next SQ:
- Repeat three times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- End: SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, ch6
- Repeat from * to the last square (SQ)
- For the last SQ:
- Repeat three times: (SlSt around next VCh, 6sc in next FR, slst around next VCh, Ch3)
- Finish: slst into the same stitch on next main workway (MW); fasten off the yarn.
