Crocheting and designing can be very personal acts. Simply using a hook and string, and your hands, and tapping into your history, beauty can be made. Stories told. Heritage explored.

Winns Morass, named for a small neighborhood in Falmouth (Jamaica, my ancestral home), is the perfect way to use sock weight yarn when you don’t want to make socks. Even in warm climates, shawls are so versatile. They are useful for cooler nights sitting on the beach with your feet in the water with your favorite person by your side as the waves lap around your feet.

This shawl is perfect for your first 2-color project. Mix and match your favorite colors; you can’t go wrong. But more importantly, choose colors that remind you are a particularly special time or place.

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SKILL LEVEL: Easy
FINISHED MEASUREMENT: 80” wingspan along top edge x 36” width, gently blocked

MATERIALS:
Yarn: Knit Picks Sock Labs Stroll Fingering Weight (75% Fine Superwash Merino Wool, 25% Nylon; 462 yards 422 meters/100 grams): 27953 Peach (C1, 1 skein), 27952 Peach Speckle (C2, 1 skein)
Hook: US size 7 (4.5 mm)
Extras: Tapestry needle
Gauge: 17 sts and 15 rows = 4” 10 cm in Hdc (before blocking)
Gauge is not crucial for this project, but
changes might result in a different yardage requirement.

PATTERN NOTES
Winns Morass is worked sideways from tip to edge, increasing one stitch every row on one edge, creating an asymmetric shape with a simple lace stripe pattern on the body. The edging is worked only in one color.

The pattern is an easy-to-remember pattern that allows you to work until you run out of yarn. Leave just enough for the final picot edging row before fastening off.