Feel the warm summer breeze when you wear the Carillon Shawl, a new FREE pattern from TLYCBlog!
Let’s face it – when the weather heats up, the typical options for crochet wearables dwindles down. You might make a swimsuit or a coverup, maybe a light t-shirt. But there are few crochet shawls designed specifically for the heat of the summer. Until now! Designed in collaboration with Lora’s Laces, meet the Carillon Shawl, a breezy mesh wrap pattern made from fingering weight yarn. Keep scrolling for the FREE pattern and tutorial video!
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One of the perks of partnering with yarn companies is that you get to expand out of your comfort zone and try new concepts. That’s exactly what I experienced when I first got my hands on Lorna’s Laces String Quintets.
Each set of String Quintets comes with 5 quarter skeins (about 50 grams and 107 yards each) of Lorna’s Laces beloved sock base. Unlike the typical gradient sets that are all the rage right now, String Quintets bring together 5 complimentary colors that all look lovely next to one another.
With yarn presented this way, the possibilities are endless! For the Carillon Shawl, I wanted to keep things simple and went with large blocks of colors worked over a repeating stitch pattern. The result is a beginner-friendly project that looks way more complicated than it actually is.
Picking the right colorway of the String Quintet packs for this project was the real challenge. My happy place is usually somewhere in “warm neutral” territory, so I was tempted to go with the Cello, which has lots of buttery browns, taupes, and a lovely mustard gold color. But, since the Carillon Shawl is a summer scarf, I thought it best to venture outside the norm and play with a color I always avoided: PURPLE!
Now, I don’t personally have anything against purple. It’s just not a color I’m drawn to when choosing yarns. But there was something so cheery about Marimba, which has two very different shades of purple, a bright pink, and a couple neutral shades. I felt an instant connection to this colorway and knew it was the right one to bring my Carillon Shawl idea to life. Click here to shop all String Quintet colorways.
If the String Quintet pack isn’t really your jam, and collection of 535 yards of fingering weight yarn will do. Most fingering weight skeins come with 400-450 yards. Add a few mini-skeins and you’re good to go. You can even use the Carillon Shawl as a stash buster and gather all of those long forgotten leftovers and turn them into something lovely!
The Carillon Shawl is an asymmetrical triangle shawl that begins with a small number of stitches and steadily increases throughout the pattern. As you progress, new colors are added as current colors are depleted. The result is a bold color-blocked wrap. The project is finished off with a delicate border made using simple picot stitches.
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Carillon Shawl Pattern
FINISHED SIZE: 59″ wingspan x 31″ depth
MATERIALS:
- 1 pack Lorna’s Laces String Quintet in the colorway Marimba (assign skeins to colors A, B, C, D, and E)
- US 7 4.5mm crochet hook (like this one from Furls!)
- Scissors
- Tape Measure
- Darning Needle
GAUGE: 20 sts x 8.5 rows in shawl body pattern, blocked
ABBREVIATIONS:
- Ch(s) = chain(s)
- Dc = double crochet
- MR = magic ring
- Pic = picot (see Special Stitches)
- Rep = repeat
- RS = right side
- Sc = single crochet
- Sl st = slip stitch
- Sp = space
- Tch = turning chain
- V-st = v-stitch (see Special Stitches)
- WS = wrong side
SPECIAL STITCHES:
- Picot (pic): ch 3, sl st in first ch made
- V-stitch (v-st): (dc, ch 1, dc) in same st
NOTE: Beginning ch-4 counts as (dc + ch 1) throughout pattern; beginning ch-1 does not count as a stitch.
Shawl Body
Row 1 (WS): With A, (ch 4, dc) in MR, close ring, turn.
Row 2 (RS): Ch 4, v-st in 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Row 3: Ch 4, dc in first dc, ch 1, dc in next dc, ch 1, dc in 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Row 4: Ch 4, (dc in the next dc, ch 1) 2 times, v-st in the 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Row 5: Ch 4, dc in first dc, (ch 1, dc in next dc) across row, placing the last dc in the 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Row 6: Ch 4, (dc in the next dc, ch 1) across row to tch, v-st in the 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Row 7: Ch 4, dc in first dc, (ch 1, dc in next dc) across row, placing the last dc in the 3rd ch of tch, turn.
Rows 8-31: Rep Rows 6 + 7, change to B after Row 31.
Rows 32-49: W/ B, rep Rows 6 + 7, change to C after Row 49.
Rows 50-63: W/ C, rep Rows 6 + 7, change to D after Row 63.
Rows 64-73: W/ D, rep Rows 6 + 7, change to E after Row 73.
Rows 74-81: W/ E, rep Rows 6 + 7.
Row 82: Rep Row 6, change to A.
Border
Row 1 (WS): W/ A, ch 1, (sc, ch 1, sc) in first dc, (ch 1, sc in next dc) across row to tch, (sc, ch 2, sc) in 3rd ch of tch, rotate to work along row ends, (ch 1, sc in next row end) across row (be sure to keep loose tension – if your project starts to pucker, go up a hook size) to last row end, ch 1, sc in base of dc from Shawl Body Row 1, turn.
Row 2 (RS): Ch 1, (sc in next sc, pic, sc in next ch-1 sp) across row to sc before ch-2 sp, sc in next sc, pic, sl st in ch-2 sp, cut yarn.
Finishing
-Weave in all ends.
-Steam or wet block lightly to finished dimensions.
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That is pretty!
Thank you!
I’m so glad you like it! Thanks Sharon 🙂
Thank you for the pattern, Toni! This is gorgeous! I just happen to have the exact amount of yarn needed – montana.crochet yarn! 🙂
Thanks DB will watch this later
I wonder if anyone has experienced my problem. By the time I had completed row 30 I had used all of my color A with nothing left over for my edging pattern. It proceeded thus for every color-many rows fewer than the pattern shows. I am now on my final color and will be off by almost 20 rows with no border edging. My gauge appears fine–it’s a close enough estimate that I assume I would match yours if all rows were present.
I ordered a string quartet package online and it states my package hss approx 535 yds. Of course, I didn’t measure the yardage and it seems the only possibility is that my quartet was shorted or you had some extra.
Hi Leslie. Thanks so much for your email and for trying out my pattern. My guess is, if you ran out of yarn early, you did my match my gauge. Ensuring you have the correct gauge will make sure you use the correct amount of yarn in a pattern and don’t run out. I did not have any additional yarn when I made my project, and your quantity was likely correct as most commercial yarns are measured by weight. My suggestion is to use a tape measure to check your gauge and make sure it is right. If you try that are are still having issues, I’d suggest going down on your hook size to accommodate. Best of luck, and let me know how it goes 🙂
Thanks for this simple and awesome pattern, Toni. I make shawls for a prayer shawl ministry and we’re in Florida so this open mesh is perfect for our summers. I wonder if the picot edging goes all around the shawl or not. I so appreciate all you do. (I’m also a Tunisian crochet lover and have learned a lot from you).
I’m so glad you like the pattern 🙂 The picot edge is only on one side of the shawl, but you could easily extend it if you wanted.
hola , Toni, muy bonito y sencillo tu chal, lo intentare y luego te digo como me fue. Gracias .
I love every single one of your patterns, and you are cute as a button! I can’t wait to try this wrap.
I have an odd question: the top in the photos looks like a way more polished version of a tshirt. It has the versatility of a tee, but a bump in formality that I’d love to get my hands on. Can you share the brand of the top? Thanks!
You’re too kind! The tee is from Old Navy. I love using their t-shirts because they’re a little bit thicker and longer. Definitely worth investing in a few colors.