Helena Shawl is a filet crochet rectangle shawl pattern made with Scheepjes whirl. It is an explorative design to take your filet crochet technique to the next level beyond home décor. 

Helena Shawl: a tribute through crochet

Helena, in Greek mythology, is worshipped as the goddess of beauty. The name per se means, bright shining light. But this shawl is named after the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, Helena Ravenclaw, the ghost. She plays a pivotal role in the Harry Potter series in deciphering an important plot point and is also one of the unsung heroes. Helena Shawl, the filet crochet rectangle shawl pattern, is my ode through crochet to Helena Ravenclaw for her immense strength to come out.

Construction

Helena Shawl is a filet crochet rectangle shawl pattern, originally designed using Scheepjes whirl. It is started along its, length to grow the width of the shawl. 

Once the desired width is attained, the two ends of the shawl are finished with a dangling pompom edging as similar to the Minerva Cardi

The written instructions in the pattern is also supplemented with a filet crochet grid chart. Using this chart, you can alter the dimensions of your projects from a scarf to a throw

Prerequisites

The shawl is designed with filet crochet technique, where every solid block is a 3-dc and open block, dc,ch1,dc. While placing the stitches in the ch1-sp, place them below the chain and not into the chain. Remember to count your ch1 spaces while counting your stitches. To learn the fundamentals of filet crochet technique, read THIS post.

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Every row that begins with a double crochet stitch is substituted with a chainless double crochet, to have a clean edge. This will not be mentioned in every row in the instruction and is understood that the first dc is a chainless double crochet stitch.

Materials

• Yarn: one Scheepjes whirl. You can very well use any other similar fingering weight yarn.
• Crochet hook – 3mm (or size needed to obtain the gauge)
• Yarn Needle
• Stitch markers
• Measuring Tape
• Scissors

Gauge

20sts in 11 rows of double crochet is 4” after blocking.

Pattern Level

Easy. This filet crochet rectangle shawl pattern is written in US terminology.

Testers Love

I take this platform to thank my fellow crocheters who helped me test this this this pattern. You can see their beautiful interpretation of the filet crochet tote pattern below.

Helena Shawl is a humble attempt to take the filet crochet technique beyond home decor. and my ode to the unsung hero in the Harry Potter series. (Y’all, I’m a Potterhead)

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