This mini-shawl is a part of the accessories collection “New Grass’’. It’s worked flat, top-down; it proceeds with increases along the middle stitch and both edges of the shawl to obtain its final triangular shape with the lengthened wings; the shawl’s combining stockinette and left/right cross cables to recreate a tender texture of sprouts of new spring grass. The shawl has the crochet edging, plain on the top and wavy on the bottom edge. The pattern is very friendly to beginners; it contains clear and full instructions and links to captioned video tutorials.

Available in English and Ukrainian.

Number of pages: 8

Skill level: intermediate

Estimated time: 7-12 hours depending on size, your skills and how clear the pattern works for you

Techniques and skills involved:
long tail cast on
classic bind off
leaning increases (M1L, M1R)
2 over 2 cross cables, with cable needle or without it
basic crochet skills

Finished measurements:
height - 44 cm/17.3’’
width - 134 cm/52.8’’

Yarn:
DK/Light worsted
The sample was knitted with Drops Karisma (100% superwash wool)
200 m per 100 gr/218 yds per 3.5 oz (#73 Petrol as Color A and #45 Light Olive as Color B)

Meterage/yardage:
* if using 1 color:
144 gr/5.1 oz, or 288 m/315 yds
if using 2 colors:
color A 47 gr/1.7 oz, or gr/0.6 oz 94 m/103 yds
color B 97 gr/3.5 oz, or 194 m/213 yds

Tools:
circular or interchangeable needles not shorter than 100 cm/40’’ 5 mm/US8/UK6 and 5.5 mm/US9/UK5;
crochet hook 5 mm/US H-8/UK6

Gauge:
14 sts and 16 rnds in 10 cm/14.2 sts and 16.2 rnds in the cable pattern worked flat with needles
5.5 mm/US 9/UK 5 after blocking
Why is my gauge so precise?
I believe that the most accurate method to determine the gauge is to measure the whole length and width of the blocked swatch and to divide each value accordingly to the amount of the stitches and rows/rounds that you made to create your swatch. In this case, you will get fractions. Rounding these fractions to smaller or bigger whole numbers will lead to inaccurate measurements of the finished object. Only the sum of all the stitches and rows/rounds used to make an object could be rounded to maximum half of the whole number.

Additional materials:
cable needle (optional)
2 separating markers (or more for separating charts)