Lone Star

“You can drive all day and still be in Texas.” From the Piney Woods in East Texas to the mountains of West Texas, the desert, plains, hill country, and ocean, there's a lot to see in Texas. This pattern started for me with a curiosity as to whether I could make a five pointed star as a center for a shawl and continued on from there inspired by the different landscapes I've lived in and passed through in my home state.

I have charts in the pdf but they’re in a knitting font I can’t get to work on the web page. I also had issues with the row numbering here so I wasn’t able to sum up some of the repetitions. But everything is here.

The binding off calls for a crochet hook the same size or a little bigger than the needles you use to get gauge.

Gauge: 8 stitches and 10 rows over 2 inches square in stockinette before blocking blocked to a diameter of 56 inches

Yarn: 1200 yards, fingering weight

Key:

k – knit

p – purl

yo – yarn over

m1 – increase by knitting into the front of a stitch then leaving it on the needle while knitting into the back of the same stitch

k2tog – knit two stitches together

ssk – slip two stitches knitwise onto the right needle, slip the left needle through the other side of the stitches and then knit the stitches together

sl1, k2tog, psso – slip one stitch knitwise, k2tog, pass slipped stitch over

* – The increases are not spaced evenly throughout the pattern, so it might be difficult to add diameter just by doing more repeats. But if you want to try, you could probably get away with adding an 8 row repeat just after row 58. Start with repeating row 27 and then knit around repeating this pattern: sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo, k1, yo, k3. You could also probably repeat rows 78 through 93 before going on to row 94.

Cast on: 10 stitches in the round. Repeat instructions for each round all the way to its end.

  1. join and knit around

  2. m1 for each stitch using bar increases

  3. and all unmarked odd rounds following... knit around

  4. m1, k2, m1

  5. knit

  6. m1, k4, m1

  7. knit

  8. m1, k6, m1

  9. knit

  10. m1, k8, m1

  11. knit

  12. m1, k10, m1

  13. knit

  14. m1, k12, m1

  15. knit

  16. m1, k14, m1

  17. knit

  18. m1, k16, m1

  19. knit

  20. k1, yo, k19, yo

  21. knit

  22. (k1,yo) 2 times, ssk, k15, k2tog, yo, k1, yo

  23. knit

  24. k1, yo, k3, yo, ssk, k13, k2tog, yo, k3, yo

  25. knit

  26. k1, yo, k5, yo, ssk, k11, k2tog, yo, k5, yo

  27. knit around to last stitch, slip last stitch – this slipped stitch is now the first slipped stitch in the next round

  28. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k1, yo, ssk, k9, k2tog, yo, k2, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  29. repeat 27

  30. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k3, yo, ssk, k7, k2tog, yo, k4, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  31. repeat 27

  32. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k5, yo, ssk, k5, k2tog, yo, k6, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  33. repeat 27

  34. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k7, yo, ssk, k3, k2tog, yo, k8, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  35. knit

  36. k1, yo, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k4, yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, k5, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo

  37. knit

  38. k1, yo, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k6, yo, sl1, k2tog, psso, yo, k7, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo

  39. knit

  40. (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)4 times

  41. knit

  42. repeat 40

  43. repeat 27

  44. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k8, (yo, k1)2 times, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  45. repeat 27

  46. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k10, (yo, k1)2 times, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  47. repeat 27

  48. sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2, ssk, k3, k2tog, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, (yo, k1)2 times, k2

  49. repeat 27

  50. repeat 48

  51. knit

  52. (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times, k1, yo, k3, yo, (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times

  53. knit

  54. (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times, k1, yo, k5, yo, (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times

  55. knit

  56. (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times, k1, yo, k7, yo, (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times

  57. knit

  58. (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times, k1, yo, k2, ssk, k1, k2tog, k2, yo, (k1, yo, k3, s1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo)2 times

  59. knit *

  60. k1, yo, k9, yo

  61. knit

  62. knit

  63. knit

  64. k4, k2tog, yo, k1, yo, ssk, k3

  65. knit

  66. k3, k2tog, (yo, k1)3 times, yo, ssk, k2

  67. knit

  68. k2, k2tog, yo, k1, yo, k5, yo, k1, yo, ssk, k1

  69. knit

  70. k1, k2tog, (yo, k1)3 times, ssk, k1, k2tog, (k1, yo)3 times, ssk

  71. repeat 27

  72. sl1, k2tog, psso, (yo, k1)3 times, ssk, ssk, k1, k2tog, k2tog, (k1, yo)3 times

  73. knit

  74. knit

  75. purl

  76. knit

  77. purl

  78. (k1, yo)3 times, (ssk)3 times, k1, (k2tog)3 times, (yo, k1)2 times, yo

  79. knit

  80. repeat 78

  81. knit

  82. repeat 78

  83. knit

  84. repeat 78

  85. knit

  86. repeat 78

  87. knit

  88. repeat 78

  89. knit

  90. knit

  91. purl

  92. knit

  93. purl *

  94. repeat 78

  95. knit

  96. repeat 78

  97. knit

  98. repeat 78

  99. knit

  100. repeat 78

  101. knit

  102. repeat 78

  103. knit

  104. (k1, yo)2 times, k15, (yo, k1)2 times, yo

  105. knit

  106. knit

  107. k1, yo, k1, ssk, k8

  108. k2, yo, k1, ssk, k7

  109. k3, yo, k1, ssk, k6

  110. k4, yo, k1, ssk, k5

  111. k5, k2tog, k1, yo, k4

  112. k4, k2tog, k1, yo, k5

  113. k3, k2tog, k1, yo, k6

  114. k2, k2tog, k1, yo, k7

  115. k9, k2tog, k1, yo

  116. k8, k2tog, k1, yo, k1

  117. k7, k2tog, k1, yo, k2

  118. k6, k2tog, k1, yo, k3

  119. k5, yo, k1, ssk, k4

  120. k6, yo, k1, ssk, k3

  121. k7, yo, k1, ssk, k2

  122. k8, yo, k1, ssk, k1

  123. knit

  124. knit

  125. (yo, k2tog) repeat to end of round

  126. knit

Bind off: Insert crochet hook knit-wise into first stitch, and wrap yarn around hook as if to knit. Pull yarn through the stitch. Work the next stitch the same way, so you have two stitches on the hook. Wrap and pull yarn through both stitches. Continue working the next stitch from left needle and then pulling the loop through both stitches that leaves on the hook. At the end, break yarn and pull it all the way through the last loop.

You are welcome to distribute this pattern and use the ideas included and gift or sell whatever you make from it. But if you distribute it, please do so as a whole, with attribution and this info included. Thanks!

Creative Commons License This work by Suzanne Lander is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.