Pax Shawl – Chart B Instructions

Hello everyone! Most of you have finished the chart A and its time to move on to chart B!!

If you still need help with the Chart A instruction for the Pax Shawl you can check it out HERE.

Lets now begin with Chart B

After you complete chart A work one row of sc on the top edge of the shawlette. The wrong side of the shawlette will be facing you.

When it says pull up loop it means insert hook, yarn over and pull up loop.

Chain 9.on this chain you will work the first linked 8 uple stitch which the designer has abbreviated as L8tr(linked 8 treble).

This is worked by picking up a loop, starting from the second chain from the hook all the way down to the last chain. You will have 8 loops ( not including the first loop on the hook). Next, insert hook into the first sc , yarn over and pull up a loop. This is the 9th loop. This row is represented on the chart as 8 white squares.

Work the return pass as you have been doing, yarn over, pull through 2 loops. Repeat until all loops have been used up and there is one loop on the hook.

Second row of chart B.

Note: read this before starting

Here pay attention to the color of the squares. White square represents Tunisian simple stitch ,black triangle represents yarn over and grey squares that are connected represent one decrease.

The yarn over and decrease happen together.

The decrease is worked in this manner : insert the hook under two adjacent vertical bars, yarn over and pull up loop through both vertical bars

The tiny purple triangle represents short row. The short rows have numbers written on top which indicates how many loops you must have on the hook before you work the return pass. The loop on the hook at the start of the row is not counted.

Forward pass : Pull up three loops starting from the second bar, yarn over, work 1 decrease, pull up one loop in each of the next 3 bars, insert hook in the next sc, yarn over pull up loop.

Return pass: (yarn over , pull through 2 loops ) repeat until you reach the end and have one loop on the hook.

Third row:

Forward pass: Pull up 4 loops starting from the second bar( the fourth loop will be on the yarn over you did in the previous row),yarn over, decrease, pull up 1 loop in each of the next 2 bars, insert hook into next sc, yarn over pull up loop.

Return pass : (yarn over , pull through 2 loops ) repeat until you reach the end and have one loop on the hook

Fourth row:

Forward pass: Pull up 5 loops starting from the second bar( the fifth loop will be on the yarn over you did in the previous row),yarn over, decrease, pull up 1 loop in the next bar, insert hook into next sc, yarn over pull up loop.

Return pass : (yarn over , pull through 2 loops ) repeat until you reach the end and have one loop on the hook

Fifth row:

Forward pass: Pull up 6 loops starting from the second bar( the fifth loop will be on the yarn over you did in the previous row),yarn over, decrease ( this time after the decrease there will not be any bar left to pull up a loop) insert hook into next sc, yarn over pull up loop.

Return pass : (yarn over , pull through 2 loops ) repeat until you reach the end and have one loop on the hook

The next 5 rows are short rows.

The short rows will not connect to the sc row. Also remember to use two loops of the last bar when you go over row below to avoid the hole.

Short row 1: forward pass: pull up loop in 3 bars .

Return pass: yarn over , pull through 2 repeat until you have 1 loop on hook

Short row 2: forward pass: pull up loop in 4 bars . For the 4th loop insert hook into the vertical bar one row below, yarn over and pull up loop.

Return pass: yarn over , pull through 2 repeat until you have 1 loop on hook

Short row 3: forward pass: pull up loop in 5 bars . For the 5th loop insert hook into the vertical bar one row below , yarn over and pull it up loop.

Return pass: yarn over , pull through 2 repeat until you have 1 loop on hook

Short row 4: forward pass: pull up loop in 4 bars . Leave the last one unworked

Return pass: yarn over , pull through 2 repeat until you have 1 loop on hook

Short row 5: forward pass: pull up loop in 3 bars . Leave the last bar unworked.

Return pass: yarn over , pull through 2 repeat until you have 1 loop on hook.

Row 6 : this row connects to the sc row. Which means you will pull up one loop in each of the vertical bars till you have 8 loops( not counting the first loop on the hook). You would have just finished short row with 3 loops , so you will pick up the three loops, then go one row below for 4th, again one row below for 5th, and one more time , one row below for 6th. The 7th loop will the the bar formed by the yarn over, and then the last loop from the next vertical bar. Next insert hook in the next sc , yarn over pull up a loop.

Return pass: (yarn over, pull through 2 loops) repeat till you have one loop on the hook.

Rows 7-10 is going to be the opposite of Rows 2-5 where you will make the decrease first and then yarn over

Row 7 forward pass: pull up loop in 5 vertical bars, decrease using the next two vertical bars, yarn over, pull up loop in next bar, insert hook in sc, yarn over, pull up loop.

Return pass:( yarn over pull through 2 loops) repeat till you have one loop on hook

Row 8: forward pass: pull up loop in 4 vertical bars, decrease using the next two vertical bars, yarn over, pull up a loop in each of next 2 bars, insert hook in sc, yarn over, pull up loop.

Return pass:( yarn over pull through 2 loops) repeat till you have one loop on hook

Row 9: forward pass: pull up loop in 3 vertical bars, decrease using the next two vertical bars, yarn over, pull up a loop in each of next 3 bars, insert hook in sc, yarn over, pull up loop.

Return pass:( yarn over pull through 2 loops) repeat till you have one loop on hook.

Row 10: forward pass: pull up loop in 2 vertical bars, decrease using the next two vertical bars, yarn over, pull up a loop in each of next 4 bars, insert hook in sc, yarn over, pull up loop.

Return pass:( yarn over pull through 2 loops) repeat till you have one loop on hook.

This completes one repeat of chart B.

Repeat this till the end.

You can watch the tutorial here for better understanding:

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