It's nearly 2am here in Nashville and the fireworks are still booming in my neighborhood.
So I thought I'd do a quick entry (or so I intend, who knows how much I'll spit out since I've begun typing) for this crocheted top that I decided to call Sweet Innocence before I even started crocheting it. I saw a pic online of a sweater with this vertical long chain & cluster of stitches pattern and instantly loved it. I started going to town make the first version, which I liked the body, but hated it as it progressed and started making sleeves for it. I'll share a Youtube video that shows a bit of it at the end of this post. I've already frogged the sleeve I started to use to finish up another project (or maybe the last part of the second sleeve for this one?). But anywho, I redid it and made the body portion a very basic, simplistic version of its predecessor. Initially I thought that maybe I could make and sell a series of these for my House Of Womack brand, but Idk if I want to make anymore soon, lol. Currently I only have this one pic of the finished sweater...fashion shoot possibly to come in the near future, haha. I should also say that crochet is not my forte, but I'm growing to love it even more. My recipe / notes below.
To be clear, this is not really a pattern. This is just me winging it and going back over my notes to remember what all I did. If you want to make the same style or type of sweater, you can adjust it however your little heart desires! (Btw, as much as I love having a MacBook Pro, it's a pain to do a lot of typing on. Gimmie a good ole traditional computer keyboard any day!)
I chained 70 stitches with an I hook for the length of the body portion. I switched to an H hook, chained 2 (for first/turning stitches, row edging, whatever ya consider it), turned the length of chains, then double crochet into each chain (skipping the previous 2 chains after switching to the H hook) all the way down the length. Chain 2, then turn he work, then double crochet back down the length again to create the second row. Boom, one edge for seaming has been created. Ok, so here's where the real fun begins. This next row is to set up the pattern. Once this row was established, I just followed it going back and forth until I had the width I wanted. Before turning the 2 row that was just created, chain 3, then turn. Triple crochet 1 stitch into the next 8 stitches. Chain 7, skip 7 stitches, triple crochet 1 stitch each into the next 3 stitches. Chain 7 stitches, skip 7 stitches, triple crochet 1 stitch each into the next 3 stitches. Keep this pattern up for the row until the last 11ish stitches. After ending a series of chaining 7 and skipping 7, there are 4 left (in my case). Triple crochet 1 stitch each into the last 4 stitches, chain 3 turn. Now, you can follow the pattern going back and forth however many times you wish. Once you've got the width, chain 2 stitches, double crochet 1 stitch in each stitch for the second to last row. Chain 2, turn, and double crochet in every stitch for the final row. One side finished. Repeat all over to create a second panel for the other side. Everything can be adjusted. The initial sweater I made had variety in the series of chain sequences and clusters of triple stitches so that it wasn't so even throughout the body. The main thing is that I wanted was a higher series of triple crochet stitches at the bottom to create a wider band, and less for a narrower collar area.
Stitch up the shoulders, leaving however much you want for the neckband (collar). Stitch up the sides, leaving enough space for sleeves. I just slip stitched my seams.
I crocheted my sleeves in the round. Starting at the armpit, chain 4, skip 1 stitch (along the body seam), triple crochet into the next stitch. Chain 1, skip 1 stitch, triple crochet into the next stitch. Continue this triple crocheting 1 stitch, chain 1 stitch, skipping one stitch pattern for each row to make a mesh type of texture. Whenever you end a row, chain 3 to start your next row and begin the mesh pattern again so that the triple crochets will fall in line with the single chain stitches from the previous row, and the the chain 1, skip one stitches will fall in line with the triple crochets. Hard to explain but easy peasy to do. Once the length has been met for the sleeve, I made the final row by doing a double crochet decrease into ever stitch. Then finish off and weave in the ends. Repeat the same method for the second sleeve. Boom, ya got yoself a very open and breezy sweater!
Here's a video talking about this sweater (and other projects), it should be queued up to the time the I start talking about knitting and crochet:
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