how to make a prayer shawl
How to Make a Prayer Shawl
A prayer shawl is the universal symbol of unconditional love and warmth. Since ages, people have presented and exchanged such shawls to show support and affection on many occasions across various religions. This write-up provides instructions on making such a shawl.
- Cast 63 stitches around the needles. Make sure that the stitches are not too tight. Follow the same knitting pattern the whole way across. Knit three stitches and then add three purl stitches.
- Continue to knit, by starting each row with three knit stitches. Work the knitting procedure for at least a 60 inches wide and 25 inches long shawl.
- The fur stitches are used while knitting the fringes or bangs of the shawl.
- Choose the texture of the bangs. If the knitting is tight, then you can make contrast fringes of a cashmere yarn or chenille cord yarns. You can also make braids out of the fringes.
- Cut the yarn, once you have decided the length of the fringes. 12 inch fringes are best suited for such a shawl. Now, cut a cardboard piece of the desired size of the fringes and cover the yarn around the cardboard piece until the cardboard is totally wrapped. You must have some strands of yarn of equal size.
- Collect twice the desired thickness of the bangs and fold them into half. Tuck in the loop ends of the fringes in the desired position of the shawl. If the fringes are in a tight space, then make use of a crochet hook.
- Draw the loop ends of the bangs together. Part the fringes in half. Then, tie the opposite halves of the fringes together.
- Try to create fringes on both the short sides of the shawl. This increases the length of the fringes to ½ inch and ensures that they won't split away during washing process.