Published July 2016
Yarn weight Any gauge
Gauge stockinette
Yardage 10-15 yards (9-14 m)
Sizes available One size, mini shawl
Languages English
This is a tutorial for a Modified Garter Tab CO that eliminates the “bump” that develops on so many top-down crescent shawls, and also gives you pretty eyelets all along the cast on edge. It’s more of a “recipe” style pattern, but following the directions will give you a cute little mini shawl from just about 10-15 yards of any weight of yarn.
Both are crescent, worked in the same yarn and gauge. Both use a yo on the WS, and a kyok (k1, yo, k1 into the same st) on the RS, yet they have slightly different shapes.
The shawl on the upper left uses a traditional garter tab cast on. Notice how a little “point” forms? And notice how the knit sts look attached to the garter edge with no yo eyelets? Now look at the shawl on the lower right. There are eyelets all along the cast on (it’s not even all that obvious where the CO is), and there is no “point” or “bump”--just a nice, perfect crescent.