Crocheting with Colorful Yarn: A Step-by-Step Guide

You’ll Need:

200g of lilac sectional coloring yarn (100% wool; 125m/50g);

150g of the same yarn, but in red-orange sectional coloring;

150g of the same yarn, but in yellow-beige sectional coloring;

150g of burgundy yarn (60% wool, 40% polyacryl; 120m/50g);

Crochet hook 4.5.

 

Size:

S-M.

 

Used Patterns

Square:

Make 8 chain sts and circle them in the ring with the help of 1 slip st. Work according to scheme 1 with circle rows. Start every circle row according to the scheme with chain sts increase instead of the 1st double crochet and finish with 1 slip st in the last chain st increase. Make 1st-5th circle rows x once.

Triangle:

Make 8 chain sts and circle them in the ring with the help of 1 slip st. Work according to scheme 2 in straight and reversed directions. Start every row according to the scheme with 4 or 5 chain sts increase instead of the 1st treble crochet or the 1st triple crochet. Make 1st-5th rows x once.

 

Stitches Control:

Square = 14 x 14 cm;

Diagonal: 20 cm.

 

Instructions

Make 12 squares and 2 triangles with lilac yarn, 10 squares and 2 triangles with yellow-beige yarn, and 8 squares and 6 triangles with red-orange yarn.

 

Assembly

Connect motifs, matching with pattern design, from the right side in the following way: at first, make diagonal seams with the help of double crochets and burgundy yarn from the lower right corner to the upper left corner. For this, make 1 double crochet in selvage sts of the 1st and 2nd motifs by turn, skipping 1 selvage st between them. Then, make the rest of the seams in the same way.

Fasten the edge of the neck-hole with 1 circle row in the following way: join the yarn with the help of 1 slip st, make 2 chain sts increase instead of the 1st half-crochet, *1 chain st, skip 1 base st, 1 half crochet*; repeat from * to *, finishing with 1 slip st in the 2nd chain st increase. Fasten arm-holes in the same way.

Make tassels of 6 threads of yarn 22 cm long and make bundles.