The Elder Tree Shawl

(the lonely tree shawl rethought)

a shawl pattern by softsweater

Another Lonely Tree Shawl?

Yup! Ive had enough feedback that folks wanted a version of the Lonely Tree Shawl with charts that you could repeat forever to make the shawl as big or as small as youd like. Took me a year to bother to do it - but here it is! Ready for you to repeat indefinitely! Using whatever yarn youd like! It would look lovely in a lace weight. Just sayin.

What youll need:

Yarn! and needles that go with the yarn. This pattern is very easy to modify, so use what youd like!

I used:
3 balls of Grignasco Loden 1 pair of 5.5mm needles

Casting On:
The Garter Tab:
Cast on 3 stitches. Knit 6 rows. Pick up 3 stitches along the long edge and 2 stitches along the cast-on edge of your tiny knitted thing. You should have a little U of fabric and 8 stitches on your needle.

Off the charts!

Before you start knitting you must know a few things about these charts. They dont show wrong side (WS) rows. ALL wrong side rows are worked as follows: k2, purl until last 2 stitches, k2 ALL right side (RS) rows (which are the ones that are charted) are worked as follows: k2, work the appropriate row on the chart, k2, work that same row from the chart again, k2. Those k2s are the side borders and the middle spine stitches. All charts are worked from bottom right to top left. Each row is read from right to left. Knit Chart A, and then repeat Chart B for as long as youd like before you decide to do the picot cast off. The grey shaded part of Chart B indicates the repeat part. Every time you complete the chart and start it over again, you will be repeating that grey part one more time.

Chart A

j f j j f j j j j f j j f j j j j f j j f j j j o j f j j f j o j j j f j j j j f j j j j f j j Sheet1 j o j f j o j j f j j f j j f j j j j j f j j j f j j f j j j j f j j f j f j j j j j j o j f j j j j f j o j j f j j j f j j f j j j jj f j j j f j j
j j o j j j j f f j j

f - slip 1 stitch as if to knit, knit 2 stitches together, pass slipped stitch over o - make 1 j - yarn over - knit stitch

Chart B
j

j j

j f j j f j j jj f j j f j j f j j j ff j j j j f j j j j fo j j j ff j j o j j f j j jj f j j f jj j f j j j f j j f j j j f j o j j j f j j o j f j o j j j j j j j j j

j o j

a
f f

j j o j

Sheet1 j j

Done knitting your charts?

Alright, lets cast that shit off then!
Before you start the actual casting off youll need to knit eight rows of garter. That means knitting every row for eight rows. Okay, after that were ready to cast off using the Picot Cast off method.! *Cast on 2 stitches using the knitted cast on method Cast off 6 stitches* repeat from * to * until all stitches have been cast off.

Happy Knitting!
Thanks for knitting!

softsweater designs pattern designed, photographed, layed out and written by softsweater