Crochet Chain Cast Off – Granary Knits

Crochet chain cast off is a versatile and attractive scooped edging to finish a lacy knitted shawl. You do not need to be able to crochet to work it, although familiarity in handling a crochet hook will come in handy.

Tools required are just a crochet hook of an appropriate size, i.e. the same size in millimetres as the knitting needles used for the project (or as directed by the pattern). I used this cast off for my Lughnasadh shawl; the knitting needles used were 4 mm and so I used a 4 mm crochet hook for the edging.

**The shawl ready to be cast off, crochet hook at the ready**

**For this particular pattern I work an ssk on the first two stitches**

**I place the resulting stitch of the ssk onto the crochet hook**

**For this pattern I begin with chain 4; all chains hereafter will be chain 3**

**Put the crochet hook through the next two stitches on the LH needle, as if to knit 2 together, wrap the yarn around the hook and pull through the two stitches**

**I now have 2 stitches on my crochet hook**

**Pull the stitch nearest the hook end through the first stitch, leaving one stitch on the crochet hook**

**Repeat the knit 2 together using the crochet hook** **on the next 2 stitches**

**Pull the stitch nearest the hook end through the first stitch on the crochet hook, as before**

**The two completed loops; in total 4 stitches have been cast off, not including the first 2 stitches of the row which were processed by ssk**

**The completed edge, showing loops positioned at the end of the columns of yarnovers.**

The pattern for Lughnasadh will be available on 1st August 2025.

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