I proudly present: Diamonds in the Morning!
Diamonds in the morning is a shawl from my Illusion series.
She got her name from the diamonds which appear frequently in this pattern.
Also from the yarn! The Scheepjes Whirl which I used for the prototype is called Red Velvet Sunrise.
Sunrise, morning, and diamonds… and Diamonds in the Morning was born!

Like I said, this is once again a shawl from my Illusion series.
This technique is comparable to illusion knitting, but the illusion effect is a bit less when crocheting.
With illusion knitting, you only see the image when looking from a certain angle.
When crochet knitting, you can see the image from any angle.

The base is basically just tapestry crochet (single crochets through both loops!)
But the effect is so much better, so I will just call it illusion crocheting.
When looking at the shawl from different angles, there seems to be some kind of movement in the images.
Moreover, the shawl looks great on both sides! On the one side, colour A is dominant, while on the other side, colour B dominates.

The pattern of this shawl is asymmetrical, which means that you will start with 2 stitches and only increase on one side.
In this way, the shawl grows with 1 straight side and 1 side which slants.
This is great, because it will open up many ways to wear the shawl, with or without shawl pin.

However, if you would prefer a straight shawl, you could make one based on the description and the schemes. This is for the more experienced crocheter, as it can be a bit difficult to figure out.

I made the prototype out of 1 ball Whirl Red Velvet Sunrise 764 and 2 balls Whirlette Açai Berry 888.
The Sunrise has a delightful gradient starting from purple, going through red and orange until it reaches a light purple. To contract this, I used the purple Açai Berry.
I personally left out 2 colour changes from my Whirl because I felt like these colours were too close to the Whirlette’s colours, which would decrease the nice effect.
This didn’t cause any trouble, as you’ve got a bit more of the Whirl (1000m) than the Whirlette (2x455m) anyway. So these 2 modifications won’t change anything to the pattern.

What I’m trying to say is that in order for the effect to work, you should have enough contrast to actually see the diamonds pattern!
The shawl will eventually turn out 170cm x 88cm.

I also made a baktus version with 2 Whirls, the liquorice yumyum 751.
To create this, I followed the pattern until row 291 and follow the pattern backwards.
In this way you will end up with a triangle scarf with the long end being 244cm and the short end being 50cm. These dimensions are ideal for wearing the shawl like my middle son does on the picture below.
Making the shawl with 2 Whirls, just like how you see it, is very inefficient.

I used 330 grams of yarn in total, so I took out about 150 grams of gray.
The gray shades were too close to each other and I didn’t want the shawl to be too long.

One piece of advice if you want to go the baktus route:
Take 1 Whirl and 1 Whirlette and make sure that the Whirlette is a starting or ending colour of the Whirl.
Once the Whirlette is used, you can use the start (or the end) of the Whirl to replace the last bit where you would have used the Whirlette.
I really hope you love this shawl as much as I do, and I would love to see all your colour combinations!
I’m also curious to see whether you’ll be making the original (asymmetrical) shawl or that you’ll be using my pattern and go for the Baktus or straight scarf!
Will you keep me posted?

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Pattern consists of written text, 2 schemes and checklist for the rows.