Mariposa Shawl – with photo guide!

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This floaty shawl capitalises on the lightweight yarn, with pretty ‘butterfly wings’ running down the centre!

In every issue of Simply Crochet magazine you’ll find our Hook to Hook designer challenge, where we pit two designers against each other to create a unique design using the same yarns!

In issue 88 the challenge was all about shawls and scarves! For the Mariposa Shawl which appeared, designer Lena Nemchenko has kindly provided some step-by-step images which you’ll find below to help you through the tricky lace parts at the start.

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Mariposa Shawl Step-by-step

Row 1

Row 2

Row 3

Row 4

Rows 5, 6 & 7

Row 8

Matt Spiers

Matt Spiers is an artist and founding editor of Gathered.how. What started as a hobby over a decade ago led to Matt developing a passion for crochet (which led to a career with Simply Crochet magazine). Matt now dabbles in all sorts of creative past-times, everything from music production to gardening to whittling – he’s an all-round craft master.

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