The Sea Glass Shawl Knitting Pattern

Perfect for those breezy summer days and nights at the beach take a look at my sea glass shawl knitting pattern.

An advanced beginner knit, this knitted shawl is light and airy and made from 100% cotton.

Soft and easy to pack into a beach bag, the summer wrap is easy to take with you when you are out and about.

An Easy-Level Knitting Pattern

This is an easy pattern for those of you who are advanced beginner level, and the techniques you will need to know to create the chevron stitch pattern are knit, purl, KFB, K2tog, and SSK.

Using mainly knit and purl stitches, the pattern will also introduce you to increasing and decreasing.

You can see more shawl patterns here with texture including triangle shawls – Shawls + Wraps.

A Knitted Shawl Inspired By Sea Glass

In a jazzy chevron pattern, the design was inspired by the sea glass I collected from a trip to Himara in Albania.

The washed-out pieces of glass with their grainy textures have amazing colors, greens, and blues, even though they look greener in the image below.

The cotton yarns used in the pattern from Rico Creative Cotton Aran are; nature, smoky blue, aquamarine, light blue, and patina.

For extra warmth, you could make this shawl in a heavier yarn weight or for a lighter shawl, in a lace weight yarn, fingering weight yarn, or DK weight yarn (also changing the needle size to match the yarn weight).

The Shawl Design Pattern Sequence

The project has an easy pattern sequence that allows you to easily create chevrons.

The two rows that you repeat throughout are as follows;

Row 1; K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1

Row 2; Purl

I have included a video tutorial that you can view to see how to knit row one, including how to KFB and SSK. 

Knit In Cotton

I had a ton of cotton yarns that I had bought last summer in all sorts of colors and didn’t really know what to do with them, so I thought making a summer shawl wrap would be a good idea!

I used five colors in soft cotton all from Rico Yarns in Rico Creative Cotton Aran – a fairly inexpensive yarn that comes in a wonderful array of colors. 

I love the way cotton yarn feels and can be used for many projects, from a simple shawl, or a sweater, to tees and tanks.

View more patterns knit with cotton yarn here – The Muses Collection.

This Can Also Be A Great Beach Shawl

When you need something to cover up with at the beach on a windy day or from a chilly breeze once the sun goes down, this is just perfect!

The shoreline colors will make this knitted shawl wrap integrate with the landscape and match up with denim cut-offs, white linen, and anything else you want to wear.

 It will also look good in any color combination you want to make it in!

Perfect For Stash Busting!

This project is great for using up leftover yarns in your stash if you want to make it all multicolored.

You could work up each chevron in a different color, making your own personal color sequence.

You could also adjust your needle size and yarn weight to make it bigger and into a blanket.

For more scarves and wraps take a look at the posts below;

• How To Knit An Easy Triangle Scarf
• How To Knit An Easy Triangle Wrap For Fall
• Outlander Carolina Shawl Pattern
• Claire’s Rent Shawl Knitting Pattern
• Outlander Shawl Pattern (Clare Fraser Shawl)

The Sea Glass Shawl Knitting Pattern

Grab your inexpensive ad-free, PDF printable pattern in my shop here.

You can also buy this pattern in Issue 3 of The Handy Knitter Magazine with 5 other patterns for only $7 here.

Notes

Skill Level – Easy

The shawl knits up fairly quickly and the simple design makes for a relaxing and enjoyable knit.

This beautiful shawl has a rectangle shape, and great drape, and will go with any summer outfit.

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Size

The shawl measures – Length = 62″/158cm / Width = 18″/46cm

Gauge – 16 stitches, 19 rows to 4×4 inches/10×10 cm measured over pattern.

The Supplies You Need

Yarn

• Rico Creative Cotton Aran in the following colors;
• Yarn A – Patina 43 x 2
• Yarn B – Light Blue 32 x 2
• Yarn C – Aquamarine 42 x 2
• Yarn D – Smokey Blue 31 x 2
• Yarn E – Nature 60 x 2
• Each skein is 50g/85 meters
• 100% Cotton
• Yarn weight – Medium 04
• Yarn Weight Guide (+ Conversion Chart)

Needles

• 5 mm (US 8) circular knitting needles (with a 24″/60cm cable)
• Please note – You could use 5.5mm (US 9) needles if you want the knitted fabric to be a tiny bit looser.

Notions

• Tape measure
• Darning needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations / Knitting Abbreviations And Terms (US And UK) List

• CO – Cast on
• Approx – Approximately
• Beg – Beginning
• CO – Cast on
• Cont – Continue(ing)
• K – Knit
• K2tog – Knit 2 stitches together; a right-slanting, single-stitch decrease
• KFB – Knit one front and back; a single-stitch increase
• P – Purl
• Rem – Remaining
• Rep – Repeat
• SSK – Slip, slip, knit these 2 stitches together; a left-slanting, single-stitch decrease
• St(s) – Stitch(es)

Pattern Instructions

Yarn Colour Guide –

1. Yarn A – Patina
2. Yarn B – Light Blue
3. Yarn C – Aquamarine
4. Yarn D – Smokey Blue
5. Yarn E – Nature

Pattern

*Tip – you may want to place a closed stitch marker on the rs – right side of the work so you know which side you are making the increases on.

With Yarn A – CO 86 sts

Row 1 – (WS) Purl

Row 2 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

The last 2 rows set the pattern.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn B

Row 13 – Purl

Row 14 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn C

Row 25 – Purl

Row 26 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn D

Row 37 – Purl

Row 38 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn E

Row 49 – Purl

Row 50 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Repeat the pattern sequence a further 3 times as set out below >

First Sequence

Change to Yarn A

Row 61 – Purl

Row 62 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn B

Row 73 – Purl

Row 74 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn C

Row 85 – Purl

Row 86 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn D

Row 97 – Purl

Row 98 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn E

Row 109 – Purl

Row 110 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Second Sequence

Change to Yarn A

Row 121 – Purl

Row 122 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn B

Row 133 – Purl

Row 134 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn C

Row 145 – Purl

Row 146 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn D

Row 157 – Purl

Row 158 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn E

Row 169 – Purl

Row 170 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Third Sequence

Change to Yarn A

Row 181- Purl

Row 182 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn B

Row 193 – Purl

Row 194 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn C

Row 205 – Purl

Row 206 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn D

Row 217 – Purl

Row 218 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Change to Yarn E

Row 229 – Purl

Row 230 – K1, KFB, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4, *KFB twice, K4, SSK, K2tog, K4 – rep from * to last 2 sts, KFB, K1.

Work in the pattern for 10 more rows.

Cast off.

Finishing

Weave in all ends along the side of the shawl, as the side curls in, and the edge will be hidden.

Notes

Please note – I used circular needles to accommodate the number of stitches.

The shawl may need to have the ends blocked – I blocked both ends of the shawl, as the edges were curling slightly.