This pattern first appeared as a CAL/read-along. The pattern is now available as a standalone PDF.

About the book and inspiration
This CAL is also a read-along. The pattern is inspired by the book The Overstory from Richard Powers and if you feel called, please join us by reading along as well. Previous CAL/Read-along participants have said that it gives so much more depth to their crochet experience and it is so fun to read and discuss the book together! Book discussions are held weekly in the Facebook group.

From the Goodreads page:

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

About the pattern and difficulty level

The used stitches and techniques are:

Front post double and treble crochet, crocheting front post sts together, simple filet crochet, working in the back or front loop, puff stitch and for the wall hanging: securing your work into a metal hoop, using single crochet.
All the special stitches and techniques are supported with written explanation, clear tutorial photos and charts for the whole pattern.

Videos
Christina Burns has volunteered to create videos for almost all parts of the pattern. You can find them as a link within the pattern.

Shawl or Wall Hanging
Within the pattern, you can choose whether to make a shawl or wall hanging. Read on for the yarn and material requirements for both.

Yarn
Wall hanging:
3 skeins of The uncommon thread, everyday singles (100% Merino wool, 366m/100g) in colorway ‘Undergrowth’

OR

1 cake Scheepjes Whirl (60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic 1000m/215g) in colorway ‘Jade Jimjam’
1 cake Scheepjes Whirlette (60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic, 455m/100g) in colorway ‘Spearmint’ (Important: During the CAL not everyone needed the Scheepjes Whirlette)

Shawl:
2 cakes of Scheepjes Woolly Whirl (70% cotton, 30% wool, 1000m/215-225g) in color ‘Melting mint centre’

Hooks & notions
Wall hanging:
3.5mm hook and The Uncommon Thread
OR
3mm hook and Scheepjes Whirl
large metal ring of 90cm/35.4” in diameter to mount your work

Shawl:
3mm hook

Both versions:
Darning needle and thread clippers
Blocking materials

Can I use other yarn than what the pattern calls for?
Of course! When creating the wall hanging you need approx. 1100 meters of fingering yarn (that’s about 350-400m per 100g) in any fiber type.

When creating the shawl, you need approx. 2000 meters of fingering yarn in any fiber type.

If you prefer not to use wool you can also use the regular Scheepjes Whirl.

I participated in the CAL by making another wall hanging with 1 cake of Scheepjes Whirl in color Jade Jimjam. I originally also had 1 cake of Scheepjes Whirlette in the color Spearmint, but I ended up not using it.

The pattern was tested in English. The Dutch version was not tested, so little typos may occur. Please contact me via email if you have found one, or if you need help with the pattern. aspoonfulofyarn@hotmail.com