How to Crochet a Beautiful Garment with Mercerized Yarn

You’ll Need:

600g of 100% mercerized yarn of grey color;

Crochet hook 1.

Instructions

Take your measurements and make a pattern design in natural size.

Make a small sample. It’ll be used for calculating the needed quantity of stitches for your size. In this sample, 92 squares are taken.

Back

Make 276 chain stitches + 3 chain stitches increase = 92 fillet squares.

Make the ornament with birds according to the scheme 1. After you’ve made 117 rows, turn to making the neck-hole. Leave 24 stitches from each side for shoulders, decrease 1 stitch 3 times from the inner sides of the neck-hole. Finish your work at the 120th row.

Front

Make 276 chain stitches + 3 chain stitches increase. Make the ornament according to the scheme 2.

Then, mark the center of work for forming the neck-hole, leave 24 squares for shoulders. Make 20 rows for the neck-hole; after that, make shoulder seams.

Define the place of arm-holes and turn to making widening along the sides. For this, join the yarn at the beginning of the work and make fillet; don’t finish the last 3 stitches.

Crochet these stitches, don’t finish the last double crochet. There should be 4 stitches on the crochet hook. Turn your work. Decrease 3 stitches from the opposite side; don’t finish the last 3 stitches. Crochet the obtained 7 stitches together.

Continue work with the fillet technique to the last 10 rows. Cut the yarn and make the second corner in the same way.

Sleeves

Fasten the yarn in the lower point of the arm-hole, then crochet around to the needed length.

Fastening

Fasten the bottom part with 2 layers according to the scheme 3. For this, make 10 rows with the fillet net, then start making the first weaver. Turn to the second weaver, step back 5 squares. Make the fastening in the 10th row according to the scheme 4.

Fasten the sleeves with 1 row according to the scheme 3 and the neck-hole according to the scheme 4.