Crochet Cardigan with Mélange Yarn

You’ll Need:

300g of mélange brown (color 1) Yarnan Gold (70% mohair, 30% acryl; 500m/100g);

300g of the same yarn, but in mélange brick-red-white-brown (color 2);

300g of natural white Camel wool (65% wool, 35% polyacryl; 600m/100g);

Crochet hooks 5, 7 and 8;

6 buttons.

Size:

L-XL.

Note:

Work in 3 threads of yarn:

• 1st combination: 2 threads of mélange yarn 1 + 1 thread of camel wool;
• 2nd combination: 2 threads of mélange yarn 2 + 1 thread of camel wool.

Stripes order: * 2 rows of 1st combination, 2 rows of 2nd combination*.

At first, make the upper part of the cardigan, then the lower part.

Instructions

Back

Make 70 chain stitches with crochet hook 7 and 5 rows of single crochets. Then, bind off 5 stitches from each side for arm-holes and make 28 rows, alternating stripes, as previously described. After that, start making shoulder chamfers, make 25 crochets, leave the central 10 stitches open for the neck-hole, turn, make 8 rows up, don’t finish 1 stitch from the neck-hole side. Make the second shoulder in symmetry.

Front

Make 35 chain stitches with crochet hook 7 and 5 rows with stripe order. Then, bind off 5 stitches from one side for arm-hole, crochet 25 rows up, bind off 5 stitches from the opposite side for the neck-hole and make 8 rows up, don’t finish 1 stitch from the neck-hole side. Make the second half of front in symmetry.

Sew front and back at the shoulder and make sleeves.

Sleeves

Make 60 chain stitches with crochet hook 7 and make the sleeve from up to down, bind off 1 stitch from both sides in every 5th row until there are 35 stitches left. Sew back and front along sleeve seams. Then, crochet the rest part of cardigan as one-piece cloth from up to down with crochet hook 8. The length of work is up to you.

Assembly

For cuff, make stitches along sleeve with crochet hook 5 and 5 rows of single crochets, then, turn to crochet hook 7 and make 5 more rows. Fasten cuff with “shrimp stitch” with one color yarn. Make plackets of 8 rows wide with crochet hook 7 along the edges of the front. Make 5 button-loops on the right front. For the collar, make stitches along the neck-hole and 4 rows with crochet hook 5, then, 12 rows with crochet hook 7, increasing 1 stitch from both sides for widening. Make a button-loop on color. Fasten the whole work with “shrimp stitch” with white yarn. Sew buttons.