How to Crocheting a Stylish Cotton Top

You’ll Need:

300g of 100% cotton yarn (250m/100g) in light-grey color;

100g of the same yarn, but in dark-grey color;

100g of Mosaic yarn with lurex (96.5% acryl, 3.5% metanite; 230m/100g);

Crochet hook 7.

Stitches Control:

16 sts x 10 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Back

Make 73 chain sts + 3 chain sts increase with light-grey yarn and work according to the scheme. Make the 1^st to 3^rd rows with light-grey yarn, the 4^th row with dark-grey yarn, the 5^th row with lurex, and the 6^th and 7^th rows with light-grey yarn. After knitting 40 rows from the beginning of work, finish your work, then start making the upper detail of the back in the same way as the lower detail.

Front

Make in the same way as the back.

Assembly

Make shoulder seams. Make side seams, leaving 28 cm open. Fasten the upper part, arm-holes, bottom, and cuts of the top with 1 row of single crochets using light-grey yarn.

Belt

Make 200 chain sts with light-grey yarn and create 13 single crochets.