Step-by-Step Crochet Sweater Instructions

You’ll Need:

350g of grey yarn (65% acryl, 20% cotton, 15% wool);

300g of the same yarn, but in red color;

Crochet hook 3.5.

Size:

M.

Stitches Control:

16 sts = 10 cm.

Instructions

Back

Make 73 chain sts and work due to the scheme 1 (18 pattern repeats), alternate 4 grey rows and 2 red rows. At 49 cm height, bind off 4 sts from both sides for arm-holes (16 pattern repeats) and crochet straight. At 70 cm height, after getting 17 sts for each shoulder and 31 sts for neck-hole, finish your work.

Front

Make in the same way as back. At 60 cm height, make neck-hole due to the scheme 2. At 70 cm height, after getting 17 sts for each shoulder, finish your work.

Sleeves

Make 41 chain sts and work due to the scheme 1, alternate the colors of yarn in the same way as for back, increase 10 x 1 st in every 3^rd row from both sides = 61 sts. At 47 cm height, paying attention that the last 2 rows should be red, finish your work.

Belt

Make 170 chain sts with red yarn and work due to the scheme 3.

Assembly

Make side seams and sew up the sleeves. Make 1 row of single crochets along the neck-hole with grey yarn, then make 6 circle rows due to the scheme 1 with red yarn, finishing every row with slip st, and finish your work.