Triangle shawls are one of the staple crochet accessories in your wardrobe as it goes well with almost anything. Made with a lightweight yarn, it is the perfect accessory for summer. Simple Summer shawl is a beautiful triangle shawl pattern that is beginner-friendly and therapeutic to work on a well.

A 0ne-of-its kind triangle shawl for beginners

The Simple Summer Shawl is a triangle shawl that is neither a bottom-up nor a top-down shawl. It is worked from one end of the triangle to another along the length of the shawl. 

The main body of the shawl uses only two stitches- chain and double crochet stitches with simple increases and decreases on one side. When you start the shawl from one corner, you keep increasing along one fixed side in each row. When we reach the midpoint of the shawl, you start decreasing in each row along the same side. 

This increases and then decreases along the side from the V-point of the triangle shawl. To top it all off, the shawl is finished with a beautiful shell-inspired border.

Yarn

This beginner-friendly crochet triangle shawl is designed using Scheepjes whirl, a versatile and my favorite yarn. This is a perfect acrylic-cotton blend, lightweight, and the best yarn to make summer accessories with.

The shade I used here is 755 Blueberry BamBam

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Materials

Crochet hook: 3.5mm

Scissors

Yarn needle

Stitch markers might come handy as well

Pattern level

Easy

Gauge

17 dc in 10 rows measure 4’’ when unblocked

Gauge is not crucial for this pattern. However, the finished measurements may vary according to your gauge.

Finished measurements

75’’ wide and 38.5’’ tall

Abbreviations

• ch – chain
• sc – single crochet
• hdc – half double crochet
• dc – double crochet
• sp- space
• st – stitch
• Beg.dc2tog – Beginning two double crochet together

Ch2, dc in the next stitch

• dc2tog – two double crochet together

(Yarn over insert hook into the first stitch, yarn over and pull through two loops) repeat in the next stitch, yarn over, pull through all the three loops

• Picot – picot stitch

Ch3, slst into the front loop and the yarnover of the last double crochet

Notes

• Ch3 at the beginning of the row counts as a dc
• Ch4 at the beginning of the row counts as a dc, ch1
• Go under the ch-sp to make the dc in ch1-sp
• Turn after completing every row
• The number of stitches increases by two stitches at every row in the first half of the shawl and decreases by two stitches in the second half

   

Pattern Instructions

Main body

Row 1: Ch4, 2dc in the first ch

Row 2: (Ch3, 2dc) in the first st, dc in each st across

Row 3: Ch4, sk1, (dc, ch1, sk1) until before the last st, (dc, ch1, dc) in the last st

Row 4: (Ch3, 2dc) in the first st, dc in each of the other stitches

Row 5: Ch3, dc in each st across until before the last st, 3dc in the last st

Row 6: (Ch4, dc) in the same st, (ch1, sk1, dc) until the last st

Row 7: Repeat Row 5

Row 8: Repeat Row 4

Row 9-79: Repeat Row 3-8. You will finish with Row7

Note: This marks one half of the shawl. You can increase or decrease the number of repeats. But make sure to finish at R7

R80: Beg.dc2tog, dc2tog, dc in each of the stitches until the end

R81: Ch4, (sk1, dc, ch1) until four stitches remaining at the end, sk1, dc2tog skipping one st in-between the legs of dc

R82: Beg.dc2tog, dc2tog, dc in each of the stitches until the end

R83: Ch3, dc in each still until before 4 sts, dc2tog twice

R84: Beg.dc2tog skipping one st in-between the legs of dc, (ch1, sk1, dc) until the last st

R85: Repeat Row 83

R86: Repeat Row 82

R87-157: Repeat Rows 81-86. You will finish with R85

R158: Ch2, dc2tog

Border

Work the border into the top of the dc along the V-edge of the shawl

Ch1 (does not count as st), hdc in the same stitch, *(3dc, picot, 3dc) in the next st, sc in the next st* repeat until the point (4dc, picot, 4dc) at the V-tip of the shawl, *sc in the next st, (3dc, picot, 3dc) in the next st* repeat until the last st, hdc in the last st. Fasten off and weave in the end.

Block the shawl lightly, preferably so as to retain shape.

Voila! And this completes your Simple Summer Shawl. Block lightly to hold shape, if required. Please make sure to use the #yarnnmedesigns and #yarnnmemakers while posting your work on social media. I would love to see your creative work. Do follow in on these social media platforms and tag me on your works