Crochet Your Beautiful Cape: Step-by-Step Instructions and Materials Needed

You’ll Need:

3 skeins of Cascade 220 Superwash Merino yarn in doeskin heather color (approx. 580 yards);

2 skeins of the same yarn, but in sugar coral color (approx. 310 yards);

Crochet hook 5.5 mm;

Scissors;

Tapestry needle.

Size:

65” wide, 40” long

Stitches Control:

12 dc x 8 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions:

Row 1: Using doeskin, make a magic ring. Ch 3 (counts as first dc here and throughout), 3 dc in ring, ch 2, 4 dc in ring, turn. Pull to tighten (8 dc)

Row 2: Ch 3, dc in the first st. Dc in each st to the ch-2 sp. (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in ch-2 sp. Dc in each st to last st, 2 dc in the last st, turn. (14 dc)

Rows 3-39: Repeat row 2. At end of last row, fasten off. (Last row will have 236 dc)

Row 40: With sugar coral, ch 2 (counts as sc and ch-1), sc in the 2nd st. *ch 1, sk 1 st, sc in the next st*, repeat between * across to ch-2 sp, ch 1, (sc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 sp, ch 1, sc into the first st after the ch-2 sp, rep between * across, to last st, ch 1, sc in last st, turn. (120 ch-1 sps, 122 sc)

Row 41: Ch 2, sc into the first ch-1 sp *ch 1, sk 1 sc, sc in the next ch-1 sp*, repeat between * across to ch-2 sp, ch 1, (sc, ch 2, sc) in ch-2 sp, ch 1, sc into the first ch-1 sp after the ch-2 sp, rep between * across ending with (sc, ch 1, sc) in last ch-2, turn. (122 ch-1 sps, 124 sc)

Row 42-49: Repeat row 41.

Fasten off and weave in all ends.