Instructions for a Crocheted Prayer Shawl
- 1). Say a prayer for the person who will receive your shawl. If you know the person, you might include specific requests in your prayers that the person's health will take a positive turn or that she will receive blessings for a new job or an answer to a problem she is having. If you do not know the person and plan to send the shawl to a charity, you can just pray in general that the person receives blessings and positive changes in her life.
- 2). Make a starting chain that is as long as you want the shawl to be; a standard, generous size would be approximately 40 to 60 inches in length. Single-crochet in the second chain from the hook and in every chain across.
- 3). Make three chain stitches and then make a double-crochet stitch in the second single crochet in the row and every single crochet across.
- 4). Make one chain stitch and then make a single crochet in every double crochet across the row, including the top of the turning chain-three stitch you made in the beginning of Step 3.
- 5). Repeat Steps 3 and 4 until the shawl reaches its desired width, ending with a Step 4 row. Continue to say prayers for the person as you work on the shawl, and again when it is finished before sending it off to its new owner. Finish off the shawl and weave in your ends using a large-eye blunt needle.
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