Crocheted Prayer Shawls

For my birthday this year my mother-in-law gave me this book on crocheting prayer shawls. I found this pattern inside and adapted it so that it worked for me. I had issues understanding what exactly the pattern in the book was asking me to do, but the finished product looks the same to me! It is a simple "block" stitch. Crocheting 3 double-crochets and then a single crochet followed by 3 more double crochets. By offsetting the stitches it creates this block pattern. :) I bought yarn at Joann's and ended up having enough to make two prayer shawls. I made one with the border pattern in the book and then just made the second one with tassels instead.

Here is the one directly from the book. I plan on giving this one to Reuben's Grandma for her 90th birthday in September.

A close up on the bottom border section:



I liked the pattern so I made a second one. This one doesn't have the extra border portion.




I liked this pattern so much that I will likely be making more of these in the future. They went by really fast and look impressive once finished.