Today I teach you how to make a simple but beautiful sweater. The sweater is worked in one piece and is easy adjustable to any size.

Materials

  • For a size S/M 6 skeins of Ice Yarns Natural Cotton Fine in the color dark mint (or other number 2 yarn). Every size up you need more skeins.
  • 3.5 mm crochet hook
  • stitchmarkers
  • Scissors
  • Tapestry needle

Terms used/abbreviations

Ch                  chain
Dc                  double crochet
Sc                   single crochet
Sl st                slip stitch

Notes

Pattern

We start the pattern with some measurements.

Measure around the widest part of your chest, divide this number by 2 and write this number down at 1. Then measure from your armpit to where you want your sweater to fall. Write this down at 2. Measure from the top of your shoulder to where you want your sleeve to end. Write this number down at 3. The last thing you measure is the width of your sleeves, measure from the top of your shoulder to your armpit and multiply this by 2. Write this number down at 4.

We now have all the measurements to make your sweater. Let’s begin.

Front panel

Start with a single crochet foundation chain as long as the width you wrote down at 1. Make sure your chain is in multiples of 5 plus 3. So when you reach the width continue working until you have a multiple of 5 and make 3 more. If you are a new to crochet or you don’t like to start with a single crochet foundation chain then you can also start with a normal chain and work a row of single crochet on top.

Row 1: ch 3, turn your work. This ch 3 counts as your first dc. Make dc in the next 2 stitches, ch3, skip 2 stitches, sc on top of the next 3 stitches, ch 3, skip 2 stitches, dc on top of the next 3 stitches, ch3, skip 2 stitches, sc on top of the next 3 stitches and so on. Depending on the length of your foundation chain you finish with a sc or a dc in the last stitch. Every next row we work in opposites, so every sc gets a dc and every dc gets a sc.

Row 2: ch1, turn your work, sc in the next 2 stitches, ch3, dc in the 3 sc, ch3, sc in the 3 dc, ch3 and so on. Depending on the width of your sweater you end with 3 dc or 3 sc. Just keep in mind that you make sc on top of the dc and the other way around.

Row 3: ch3, turn your work, dc in the next 2 sc, ch3, sc in the next 3 dc, ch3, dc in the next 3 sc and so on.

Repeat rows 2 and 3 until you have the length you wrote down at number 2.

Sleeves

You worked up half of your front panel and now we start working on the sleeves as well. Chain the length you wrote down at 3 in multiples of 5. It is 70 chains for me. Leave this chain for a while and grab a new ball of yarn. Attach the yarn on the other end of your front panel to make another chain on the opposite side.

Chain the same amount of chains, so again 70 for me, cut your yarn and bind off. We leave it like this and continue our pattern on the other side.

If your chain is divisible by ten, start your new row with the stitch that was next. If your chain is only divisible by 5 then you start with the opposite of what was next. This will make the pattern on top of your front panel as it should be. Work the stitch pattern into the chains ( 3 dc or 3 sc, ch 3 and skip 2) and if you reach the body then work into the stitches towards the other chain and work in the chain to the end. Repeat the stitch pattern until your sleeves measure half the number you wrote down at number 4. In the next row we make the neckline.

Neckline

1 or 2” inside the sweater sides is the neckline, it depends on how big of a neck opening you want. I count 3 rows of sc/dc from the side and attach my yarn in the next group of 3. I did the same on the other side and put a stitchmarker in the last stitch of the group of 3.

Work up the pattern until you reach the first stitchmarker, chain the same amount of stitches what is in between the 2 stitchmarkers (it must be divisible by 5 plus 3), sl st in the stitch with the second stitchmarker. You can remove the stitchmarkers now. Work up the rest of the row in the stitch pattern. Work your way back until you reach the chain. In the chain we work the stitch pattern but we skip 2 chains after the ch 3, just like you did in the beginning and at the start of the sleeves. Make the sleeves as long as the number you wrote down at number 4. Bind off.

Back panel

Reattach your yarn at the same place where the front panel starts.

Put a stitchmarker on the other side at the same place where your frontpanel ends. Work up the stitchpattern until the stitchmarker, end there, turn your work and work your way back. Keep working until the back panel is as long as the front panel.

End with a row of just sc in every stitch across to mirror the front panel. Don’t bind off.

Lay the front panel on top of the back panel, sc both parts together. Make 2 sc in every row. You can also sew the parts together if you prefer this method. Repeat this step on the other side.

Border

Make 1 round of sc around the sleeves and the neckline to make a nice finish.
Bind off and weave in all of your ends.

Your sweater is ready to wear!