Essential Crochet Project Instructions and Materials

You'll Need:

3 skeins of yarn (95% mercerized cotton, 5% glass wool; 85m/50g);

Crochet hooks 4 and 4.5.

Size:

S

Dimensions:

Bottom: 38 cm wide, 20 cm long.

Stitch Techniques:

Relief single crochets: single crochets in each row insert crochet hook through back loop. Finish every row with 1 chain stitch increase.

Leaves: follow the scheme. Make 1st-3rd rows once, then 2nd and 3rd rows 3 times.

Stitches control: 16 relief crochets x 18 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Leaves: 16 sts x 4 rows = 10 x 11 cm.

Instructions:

Left Front:

Make 23 chain stitches and relief single crochets:

1st row: 11 single crochets, 3 single crochets in 12 sts, 11 single crochets;

2nd row: 12 single crochets, 3 single crochets in 13 sts, 12 single crochets;

3rd row: 13 single crochets, 3 single crochets in 14 sts, 13 single crochets.

Total: 16 rows.

Right Front:

Work the same as left front.

Bottom:

Crochet from up to down with crochet hook 4.5 as one cloth, then sew it in the center of the back. Make 114 chain stitches and 2 rows of single crochets.

After that, create the leaves pattern, repeating the pattern between arrows, with 12 single crochets in 7 rows in every arch of chain stitches.

Assembly:

Sew both parts of the front along both sides from the center. Make the back seam.

For straps, make a chain of chain stitches 55 cm (= 108 sts) with crochet hook 4, fasten them with 1 row of single crochets, and sew.