The Strawberry Shortcake Shawl
A free pattern for a triangle shawl in three shades of pink — designed for the very last days of summer.
I made the first version of this shawl on a Tuesday in August, sitting on my mother's porch with a glass of iced tea going warm beside me. The yarn was a leftover skein of cotton-merino in the colour of strawberry ice cream. It looked, I thought, like cake.
The pattern is a simple top-down triangle: chain four, join, work three increases per row, switch colour every twelve rows. There is one tricky thing — a picot edge that looks like the scallop on a piecrust. I will walk you through it.
Materials. Three skeins of fingering-weight cotton-merino in a graduated pink. A 4.0mm hook. A tapestry needle and patience for weaving ends.
The stitch. sc, ch3, sl st into the first chain, sc into the next stitch. Repeat. It is meditative once you find the rhythm. I worked the whole edge in one sitting, listening to a podcast about bread.