Amethyst Shawl Free Crochet Pattern - Beginner Friendly Lace Triangle Shawl - Easy Crochet Scarf

Hey everyone, welcome back. Today I'm excited to show you how to crochet the beautiful amethyst shawl. It's a crescent type shawl that goes from skinny at the beginning to wide at the end to give you a lot of unique kind of styling options. The one that I am holding was made with some yarn If you're curious about the yarn and you want to try it for your shawl, I'll link to my full review in the description below. from a recent Timu haul. It's a fun yarn and you can see how well I liked working with it and grab some if you like the look of it. For this shawl, you'll need about 475 yards of a worsted weight yarn. A self-striping yarn gives an Effortless and beautiful color transition but if you prefer a more sophisticated look a solid color works beautifully too. In the pattern I also give you another option for the yarn which is what I originally made that pattern with. This used to be a paid pattern but now it is one of my forever free patterns so it will be free forever so you can always go and bookmark this and come back to it later. So we'll be using a six millimeter hook and I'm going to walk you through the first seven rows including the four row easy repeat that you'll use for the rest of the shawl. Once you've got that down you'll be able to work the project without having to keep checking the pattern. Before we get started though be sure to hit the like and subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss any future free patterns and if you find this video helpful give it a thumbs up and share it with your crochet loving friends. Now grab your pattern, yarn and hook and let's get started. Okay, so we are gonna start off our project with a slip knot. We're starting at the skinny end of the shawl and it's gonna just build out through pretty much a four, four or five, so yeah, four row repeat. But we're gonna do a couple set up rows first. So after you get your slip knot, leave a good tail for weaving in. We're gonna chain four. Just normal chaining. Three of those are going to count as a double crochet. Next we're going to double crochet in the very first chain we made or the fourth from the hook. Again those three count as a double crochet. We're going to double crochet six times into this chain. So we're going to yarn over Insert our hook into the very first chain. You can go back loop or bottom bump, whichever you prefer. We're going to do our first double crochet. So yarn over, insert the hook, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through the first two, yarn over, pull through the second two. That's your full double crochet. So we've got two. We're going to do four more. And now we have the end of row one, which is a whole little fan that we're gonna be working off of to make the entire thing. For row two, we're gonna turn and we're gonna do a tall chain. So this is in place of a chain three. A tall chain will help keep your edges looking the same as the rest of your stitches. If you notice that when you do like a chain three for, The beginning of a round, and I'll just do one real quick. This yarn masks it a little bit, so if you'd rather do a chain three, feel free. But if it's... a thinner yarn or something that doesn't have as much poofiness that kind of sticks out and you want to hide that a little bit better you want to do a tall chain. I'm going to double crochet in the next stitch because we're supposed to double crochet in the same stitch but I'm going to do it the next stitch so you can see kind of the gap that appears with the chain three so normally you can kind of see that big gap right here that is something that is not great looking on your finished projects. To avoid that we're going to do a tall chain. So let's pull those out, go back to our original chain. So a tall chain is going to take the place of the chain three. We're going to pull out our chain about as tall as a double crochet. Then we're going to lock that in with one more chain and that is just going to be kind of a runner to get us up to the height so that we can do our first double crochet but this time we're going to do it in the same stitch as where we made the tall chain. So we're going to yarn over insert in that very first stitch do our double crochet then we are going to double crochet I'm going to crochet in the next Five stitches, so one double crochet in each of the next five. Okay, now we are at our very last stitch, which is kind of weird looking because it was our first chain three. So it's pretty skinny. It kind of looks like you're at the end of your row, but you still have that one chain three that we are going to work into. So we're gonna start increasing. And to do that, we're gonna do two double crochets into that stitch. So we're gonna do it in the top of the chain three. We're gonna do one, and then we're gonna go right back in. If I can get through the stitch and do one more. So we've increased our row by one and we now have eight stitches and we're starting to increase going this way. So all of our increases are going to be on the same side of the project. So for row three we're gonna turn, get some slack, lots of slack. And we're gonna tall chain again, and we're gonna keep increasing on this side. So we're gonna do two double crochets in that very first stitch, which was the last stitch of the previous row. Next, we're gonna double crochet in the next five stitches, which will leave us two left over because we had a total of eight. What we're gonna do is we're always gonna increase on this side. We're always gonna decrease on the opposite side. So... That will kind of keep you on track. To remember which side is which, you can look at your first and last stitches of the rows and look for the increases or the decreases. So first we're going to double crochet in the next five stitches. And now we are on our last two stitches of the row and we're going to double crochet two together because we're only technically increasing on every other row. Even though we did an increase over here we're bringing our our whole project to the right in this case on this on this side. By doing that, it's kind of creating a bias. If you've seen my bias lace scarf, or my just bias scarf, it's not lace, you'll see that we always increase on one side and we decrease on the other side and it leans. So we're going to do the same thing by doing a double crochet two together. So if you've never done one, we're going to yarn over, insert a hook into the next stitch, pull up two loops, we'll have two left on our hook, yarn over, Put your hook in your next stitch, pull up a loop, pull through the first two, three loops left on our hook. We're going to yarn over and pull through all three for that double crochet, double, double crochet two together. DC to TOG. Okay, now we're moving on to row four and row four is where we're going to start our lace. It's really Just chains. So it's not difficult. One thing to note, you'll see in the pattern that it says that we're going to chain two, but it counts as one stitch. And what that's going to do is it's going to make a bigger Lace hole in the project but when we come back and work we're only working one stitch into that chain two space so that way it the count stays correct but we have a wider nicer big hole for the hole of the lace. Lots of holes. And one thing to note this is going to be the beginning of our stitch repeat. So this When we finish the next four rows you're going to come back and repeat this. You're just going to use it in a wider pattern because you're adding more stitches as you go. So I'll keep counts out of this so that if you need to come back to reference it you can. So we're going to start with a tall chain. Then we're going to double crochet in that first stitch. We're going to double crochet in the next stitch we come to. We're going to chain two. One and two. Then we're going to skip one stitch because remember even though we're chaining two we're counting it as one stitch so we're just skipping one stitch. Then the repeat for the row begins. So when you see the star in the pattern that means repeat everything in after that star until it tells you to stop. So we're going to double crochet after skipping that stitch, double crochet in the next stitch, we're going to chain two again, tangles out, Skip the next stitch, double crochet in the stitch after. So the pattern repeats us to keep doing this until you reach your last stitch. Remember we have this tall chain here so your last stitch is going to look a little bulky but that is better than a big a you know anemic stitch where there's a huge hole like this in it so we're gonna remember that we have one stitch left this is our tall chain we are doing Two double crochets, because remember, We are increasing on this side every single row. So we're gonna do two double crochets in this last stitch and then we are done with row four. On row eight, you'll have a couple more holes because you're gonna keep working as it states that repeat until you get to that last stitch. Okay, so row five, or the second row of our repeat, this one is pretty easy. We're going to tall chain. Remember we're increasing on this side so we're going to do two double crochets in that first stitch. Now we're going to double crochet across till we get to our last two stitches. So this should be fairly easy to recognize each row because we're doing two double crochets at the beginning before we're starting our chains. So once you finish this chain stitch you should be But remember, Each of these chain two spaces, we're only doing one double crochet into them because these are being counted as one stitch. So we're going to double crochet in each stitch across and you'll see the pattern says only one double crochet in the chain two space. So just go right around the entire thing, nice and easy, and then find your middle stitch. And double crochet in there. And you'll see that you don't really get a gap. It just kind of pulls together, but you're getting the nice big holes for your lace. If you did just one chain, and you could if you want the hole smaller, you could substitute for one chain each. It's just going to give you a narrower gap. So if you like the big open gap, use two chains. Or if you want to try, do one chain or maybe alternate and have big and little chains. You know, whatever floats your boat or find your last remote. Okay, now we're down here to our last two stitches. Remember, on this side of our project, I'm not going to say it right or wrong because Crochet is right and wrong both sides. It's, you know, unless you're doing cables, you can always reverse crochet. That's what I love about crochet. So last two stitches we're at, we're DC two together, double crochet two together. So on these rows where we have a Just plain, you know, across, we're always increasing on one end and decreasing on the other end. So we've done our DC two together and you can see we're starting to get our crazy triangle. So we only have two more rows to go and then we start our repeat of these rows. All right now row six. Guess what we're starting with. That's right. Tall train. And guess what we're doing after this? That's right, double crochet. So row six, we're starting with our tall chain. Row six is a pretty easy one. We're gonna double crochet in each stitch across to the very last stitch, and then we're gonna do our increase. So nice and simple, easy to remember. I give this like a Four out of five TV watching rating being able to do something else while you're doing this project because you really only have to pay attention kind of at the beginning and end of the rows and and pay attention to which row you're on but they're pretty easy to count they're big they're you know you know this one's gonna be an open one. And you'll have three closed ones so it's pretty simple to tell which row you're on. They're very easy to read so this is a fairly simple pattern. You just have to remember what you have to do kind of on this one but it's it's yeah it's easy very easy. Here we are at our last stitch. Now remember this is our increase side so we have to double crochet two times in this stitch. So every other row, we are increasing by one. So you can keep track of your stitches that way. You can use a little counter, a little tally sheet, whatever. But the row where we don't have the DC2 together, we're increasing. The other rows where we have the DC2 and 1, and then yeah. doing two in one you're increasing one but we're reducing one on the other end and that's what's giving us our shape so we're only increasing one stitch every other row so keep that in mind if you're counting stitches. All right last row for the repeat so as normal we're going to tall chain and we're going to dc two times in that first stitch to keep us going over here Then this one is pretty simple too. We're going to double crochet all the way across to the last two stitches because we're going to this is our decreasing or our you know not increasing row because we're increasing and decreasing at the same time. So double crochet across. And here we are at our last two stitches, and my yarn is finally starting to change colors. I'm very curious to see how this is going to turn out, so I'm excited to see how long these color changes are and how either really cool this looks or how wackadoodle, but I love these little nubbies. They give it just kind of some interesting effect. So now we're going to do our double crochet two together to finish off the last row of our repeat. And there we go. We are ready to now repeat our row four and work our way up. I'll do one more row four repeat just so you can see how this works out in a larger stitch count. So let's do that again real quick. So we're going to tall chain. We're going to double crochet in the very first stitch and in the stitch after. Then we start our lace. So we're going to chain two Skip one DC, DC in the next, need to yarn over. Chain two, skip, DC in the next. Chain two, skip a DC, DC in the next. And here we are at the end of our row and we're ready to increase. So two double crochets in that stitch. So you will notice, if you have keen eyes, that our hole's increased by one. So as you go you're gonna have one more lace hole every fourth row so that can also keep you on track. But remember when you're working back only one DC in each of these chain ones. That'll give you that nice wide hole. So keep on going we'll meet up at the end so we can see how mine looks And how yours looks. And that's it for the amethyst shawl. Once you've memorized that repeat, it's such a relaxing project to work on. I can't wait to see what your finished shawls look like. Be sure to tag me on social media so I can check them out. Don't forget to hit the like, subscribe, and share this tutorial if you enjoyed it. I'm Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching.