Big and Comfy Shawl

Welcome! Friends and fellow Weavers!

Ah the memories...

I made this big and comfy shawl almost a year ago when I still had a 6ft Triangle to play with. I decided the 6ft was a little too big for my tiny studio apartment after my handsome man ran into it about a dozen times a day. Seriously, I needed to put bright flagging tape on the corners or something.

I enjoyed the large loom, it just took me a long time to finish projects. I'm a big fan of quick projects. Maybe that's why I love my rectangle loom... I can get that bad boy done in about 1 hour and a half. If it's a bad day, it might take me 2 whole hours. The 6ft triangle took me DAYS! I'd get it started and have a great time weaving. Get an hour into it, which for me meant almost half way, and that's when something would distract me, pulling me away from the project. It might be lunch time, hairballs that need cleaning, or a pee break. It never failed, something always distracted me and I'd end up walking away and starting a different project elsewhere.

Days would go by, my boyfriend would almost poke his eye out walking into it, and still it'd sit. My ambition to finish it just wouldn't take hold. Some days I'd do a row here and there in-between tasks until I'd finally get to that last quarter. This is when I had to finish it, because at the time I had a darling kitten... I'm sure you've seen pictures if you keep reading my nonsense... Yes, this darling boy would get excited when the fringe was just high enough for him to jump and get!

He was still being trained that it's my yarn, not his. When I reached this point, I'd have to finish it. This is when I'd become a weaving demon. No interruptions. You want dinner? Fend for yourself. Cat puking? I'll clean it later. Got to pee? Not until I've finished this row and maybe the next.

Before I knew it, it'd be done! Only about month after I started it... whoops... but hey, it was done and I wasn't idle while it waited for me to finish it. I'd have a bunch of other projects completed in the meantime.

That is exactly how this shawl was completed. Actually, now that I think about it, I think I had intended this shawl to become a blanket after weaving a second piece, but because of how long it took me to complete this half, I decided to leave it as a shawl. This is also the first shawl I learned how to single crochet the hypotenuse (Longest side) edge to make it more finished.

One the great things about this pattern is it can be converted for the 5ft loom! And I have done that for you. You're not getting just one pattern this time, but two. One for the 5ft Triangle and the other for the 6ft Triangle. I am going to try to give you the 5ft and 6ft conversions together and separate from now on.

Now that you've read my crazy creation story here is the pattern:

5ft and 6ft Triangle Loom Pattern