Crochet Project Using Blue New Cotton Yarn

You’ll Need

400g of blue New Cotton yarn (60% cotton, 40% microfiber; 140m/50g);

Crochet hooks 3.5;

3 buttons.

Size

S.

Used Patterns

Pattern for Plackets

16 sts wide: due to the scheme 1. Make 1^st–3^rd rows once, then repeat 2^nd–3^rd rows. Start with WS row.

Pattern for Belt

23 sts wide: make in the same way as pattern for placket but due to the scheme 2.

Main Pattern

Due to the scheme 3, make points of set-up chain on the scheme as double crochets. Start with sts before pattern repeat, repeat pattern x 3 times, finish with st after pattern repeat. Make 1^st–3^rd rows once, then repeat 2^nd–3^rd rows. Start with WS row.

Note

2 double crochets + 1 chain st + 2 double crochet in 1 base st (= increase) are stated as a group of double crochets.

Stitches Control

22 sts x 8.5 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

For placket, make 16 chain sts + 3 chain sts increase and work with the pattern for placket. In 105 cm = 89 rows from the set-up row, finish your work.

For the belt, make 23 chain sts + 3 chain sts increase and work with the pattern for belt. In 87 cm = 75 rows from the set-up row, finish your work.

Mark the central 21 double crochets along the left edge of the placket, join the yarn to the side of double crochets in the 35th row and work with the main pattern, making increases. In 40 cm = 30 rows from the placket, finish your work.

Double crochets to the 1^st group of double crochets – left front; double crochets between the 1^st and 2^nd groups of double crochets – left sleeve; double crochets between the 2^nd and 3^rd group of double crochets – back; double crochets between the 3^rd and 4^th groups of double crochets – right sleeve; double crochets after the 4^th group of double crochets – right front.

Sew the loose end of the left edge of the placket from both sides to the ends of the front.

Fasten the right edge of the placket in the following way: join the yarn to the last chain st in set-up row and make 1 single crochet, then make 4 double crochets in the upper part of double crochet of the 1^st row, 1 single crochet in the 3^rd chain st increase of the next row*; repeat from * to *.

Sew the left edge of the belt to the bottom edge in the following way: sew the first 12 rows to the short edge of placket and the first 7 double crochets of the left front, leave the next 15 rows of belt open to the left sleeve, sew the next 21 rows of the belt to the central 27 double crochets of back, leave the next 15 rows of the belt open for the right sleeve, sew the rest 12 rows to the last 7 double crochets of right front and short side of placket.

Sew buttons.