Crochet summer blouse

Crochet summer blouse

Materials

90 grams of yarn (recommended for 4mm crochet)

Crochet hook (size 4mm)

Stitch Markers   

Yarn needle

Scissors

Size: M

Instructions

Measures

47 cm long approx.

81 cm wide approx.

38 cm long strip

Foundation chain: Multiple of 5.

Starting from the blouse’s lower part I’m going to use a small sample in order to explain how to make it.  We’re going to knit this blouse circularly (all in one piece).

ROW 1: 135 chains. Slip stitch in first chain (make sure chain is not twisted).

ROW 2: Go up with 5 chains, miss 4 stitches and in the fifth stitch make 1 double crochet. Repeat sequence until end of row. Close row with a slip stitch.

ROWS 3 - 23: Go up with 5 chains and insert the crochet in the following free space and make 1 double crochet. Go up with 5 chains… Repeat sequence until end of rows.  Close each row with a slip stitch.

ROWS 24: Go up with 5 chains, make 5 double crochet in the third stitch of the chain of the previous row, go up with 3 chains and flip knit. Make a loop and insert crochet in the next stitch and extract yarn. Make a loop and insert crochet in the following stitch and extract yarn. Make a loop and insert crochet in the following stitch and extract yarn. In the crochet there have to be 7. Close the first 6 at the same time and then the remaining 2 in the crochet.

Go up with 5 chains. Repeat sequence until end of row. Close row with a slip stitch.

ROW 25: Go up with 5 chains, make 1 double crochet in the remaining stitch (where we closed all the joint stitches of the previous row). Go up with 5 separation chains… Repeat until end of row. Close row with a slip stitch.

Cut the yarn.

Braces

Leave 5 motifs. Mark the back and front (braces) with a stitch marker between the next two double crochet.

Repeat the same from the other side.

ROW 1: Go up with 3 chains, make 5 double crochet.

ROW 2 – 21: Go up with 6 chains and make double crochet in the last stitch of that row. In the following rows, go up with 6 chains and make 1 double crochet within the space of the previous row.

ROW 22: 6 double crochet.

•             Sew the brace at the other end

•             Make single crochet throughout the contour of the top of the blouse (including the braces)

Note: Close each row with a slip stitch.