Crochet Sweater Instructions and Yarn Details

You’ll Need

40g of cream, coffee with milk, mélange brown, yellow, blue-green, light-blue, dark-grey, burgundy, ruddy, violet, inky Lanoso Bonito yarn (51% acryl, 49% wool; 300m/100g) (each);

100g of the same yarn, but in olive color for the main work and fringe;

Crochet hook 2.

Size

S-M.

Instructions

Back and Front

Make 170 chain stitches, and create the 1^st row with double crochets using olive yarn; cut the yarn. Then, work only with right side double crochets, ensuring to join new yarn from the same side each time.

1^st color – 20 double crochets, don’t cut the yarn. For the rest of the colors, make 20 double crochets each. The last color should be 10 double crochets. Use 9 colors of yarn in the 1^st row, and cut the last 2 threads of yarn in the row. Join the new color yarn in the next row from the right side, making 20 double crochets while catching the loose end of the yarn from the previous row.

Join one more thread of yarn, continue with 20 double crochets, and join the yarn from the previous row, then make the next 20 double crochets with it. Use all the yarn from the previous row in this manner, cutting only the last yarn at the end of the row.

So, you should achieve a “brick” pattern. Cut only the last 1-2 threads of yarn, with the rest being used in subsequent rows. Repeat the order of colors from the 2^nd to the 9^th rows, making a total of 53 rows up to the arm-hole.

Divide your work into 3 parts in the 54^th row: 43 double crochets for each half of the front, and 84 stitches for the back. Create 13 rows for each front, making 1 decrease for the neck-hole, starting from the 14^th row along the edge of the front until there are 30 stitches left for each front.

Continue with the back and front separately for 23 rows, making the last rows of front and back in the main color. Sew the details at the shoulders from the wrong side and fasten and cut the yarn.

Join olive yarn to the lower edge of the front from the right side. Make 5 rows with the “rib” pattern according to the scheme, including 3 double crochets in the corners of the neck-hole (increase).

Form the edges of the arm-holes with ribbing, making 3 double crochets together at the bottom of the arm-hole.