How to Make Solomon Knot: Solomon Knot Rectangle: for Shawl, Curtain, Tote Bag, Stole etc

Hello friends,

Solomon Knot (in Marathi which is called Rudragath रुद्र गाठ ) is very old technique in crochet. It is lacy, airy pattern. It is used to make Summer Shawls, Stole, even Tote Bag for fruits, Lamp Shades, Curtain and what not. Many decorative pieces can be made with this stitch. It is the best example of creating a beautiful pattern using just basic stitches as single crocget and chain. It is also known as Lover's Knot, abbrivated as SK or LK.

How to make Solomon Knot?

Crochet designer Carolyn Calderon describes it very nices as, "LK is made of two sttitches, a long chain and a single crochet worked into the back bar of the chain".

R1: First make ch2, 

sc 1 in first ch,

[ Make the loop of chain long in height,

YO the working yarn on left hand,

Get the stitch out of the long loop, Now there is a long loop with one strand on left side and two loops on right side,

Make a single crochet in this loop. For this insert hook in the loop, YO and get one st out. Now there are 2 sts on hook.

YO, pass through both sts ]

     

One Solomon knot made.

Repeat from [ to ] as many time as you want the knots. We made 11 SK.

R2: Place marker in last sc st. Make 3 more SK. Skip 4 sc-sts (joints) (considering the first as one which is just made) and join at fifth sc-st by sc.

  

[Make 2 SK, skip 1 sc-st (joint), join with next] repeat this till end.

R3: Make SK 3, skip 4 joint and join with next sc-st, [Make 2 SK, skip 1 sc-st (joint), join with next] repeat this till end.

R4: same as R3.

Repeat R3 till the required height is arrived.

Using this technique, you can make STOLE, RECTANGULAR SHAWL, TOTE BAG or CURTAIN, LAMP SHADES etc.

The following video with English subtitles may help you.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.