Instructions for “Crochet Jacket with Fringe”
Sizes
36/38 (40/42) 44/46
You Will Need
- Yarn (47% cotton, 47% polyacrylic, 6% polyamide; 165 m/50 g) – 350 (350) 400 g black and 300 (300) 350 g white
- 4 mm crochet hook
- Black kilt pin closure (70 mm)
Patterns and Charts
Main Pattern
Number of stitches is a multiple of 10 + 1.
Work according to the chart. Start with the stitches before the repeat, repeat the pattern repeat continuously, and end with the stitches after the repeat.
Work rows 1-5 once, then repeat rows 2-5 continuously, following the color sequence.
Gauge
24 sts x 10 rows = 10 x 10 cm.
Schematic
Instructions
Back
With white yarn, chain 111 (121) 131 sts + 1 turning ch and work in the main pattern.
For the batwing sleeves, 10 cm from the starting row, chain 5 sts (= 1/2 pattern repeat) on both sides and work them into the pattern. Then in the next 2nd row, chain 1 x 5 sts, and in each following row chain 10 x 5 sts, then in each row chain 3 x 10 sts (1 x 5 sts and 2 x 10 sts), 2 x 5 sts and 1 x 10 sts, working them into the pattern = 291 sts.
End the work 38 (39) 40 cm from the starting row.
Left Front
Work as for the back, but make increases only along the right edge.
Right Front
Work the same as the left front, but mirrored.
Finishing
Sew the shoulder seams and sleeve seams, leaving the center 24 cm open for the neckline on the back.
Sew the side seams and the lower sleeve seams.
Work 2 rows of single crochet around the jacket edges, except for the lower edge, using black yarn.
Work 1 round of picot edging around the sleeve edges with black yarn (= *1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc into the 1st ch, 1 sc, repeat from * continuously).
Weave black fringe into the right front edge: alternately weave 2 strands, each 65 cm long, into every stitch and every 2nd single crochet stitch (finished length should be about 32 cm).
