Crochet Pullover 26

Pullover for Girl / Boy (Any Size)

Fig 1

Hi,
I made this pullover for my grand daughter. I used 4 ply wool and 3.5 mm crochet hook. It's firnal measurements are,
Height 19", width 14", sleeves length from top point 18:.
This pattern is common, we can use for gorl or boy and if you have all measurements you can make pullover of any size.
As it is pullover type sweatre therefore we have to take measurement of head, say it is 20". Also measure required height and length of sleeve.

Not to start with make chains to measure total length 20" (equal to the measurement of head).
Taking care that chains are not twisted join first and last chs together and make  a circle.

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For this pullover I made initial chs by double thread and I got length 20" in 84 chs. Circle made by joining with first ch. Fig 2.
Pattern:
R1: (ch3 (call this as first dc), dc 1 in next 2 sts, [thus 3 dcs, skip 1 st, YO insert the hook in next ch, YO and get 2 long sts, repeat 2 more times, we get 6  long sts on the hook and one original st, thus 7 sts on hook, YO and pass through all of them. Ch 1 to fix them, one petal or puff made. Ch 2, make another petal in the same st, see fig 3, skip 1 st] repeat till end, join by sl st in third ch. Thhis (puff1, ch 2, puff 1) we call shell.
R2: ch 3, dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in next, [puff in ch 2-gap between two petals, ch 2, puff in same gap, (dc 1, dc 2, dc 1) on 3 dcs of previous round] repeat till end. Note that here, we made 4 dcs inplace of 3 dcs in between 2 designs of shells. Fig 4.

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R3: ch3, dc2, dc 1, dc 1, (5dcs made in place of 4 dcs of previous round), [puff in ch 2-gap between two petals, ch 2, puff in same gap, (dc 1, dc 2, dc 1, dc1) on 4dcs of previous round] repeat till end.
R4: As in round 3, only make 6 dcs in place of 5 dcs of previous round in between 2 shells. Then 7 dcs in place of 6 and so on ......
Repeat this till the yoke height is 5". See fig 5. The height we reach after 9 rounds when there are 11 dcs in between two shells design.

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Now place markers for pointing out sleeves sts. Place the yoke so that joint will be on back side.
Next round: ch 3, dc 1 on each st till marker ch 4, join by dc 1 on front side st, dc 1 again on each st till other marker of slleve, again make ch 4 and join by dc 1 on back side st and then dc 1 in each st till end, join by sl st. Fig 6.
Measure the width if it is more than 14 then decrease 1 st in each of the 11 dcs in between 2 shells. In my case this happened so I decrease 1 st by making 2dctog in the middle of every 11 dcs.
If you are OK with the width then don't reduce sts here.
Next round: ch 3, dc 1 in 9 sts, [shell on ch2- space, dc 1 in 10 sts] repeat till end.
Repeat this round till the length is 19", see fig 7.
Border: Make border of puff st at the lower bottom.
ch 3, get long sts 6 as above, YO pass through all sts, fix by ch1, ch 3, skip 2 sts, join by sl st.REpeat this till end. See fig 8.

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Now join the yarn at underarm as shown in fig 9.
Go on working as per pattern only at under arms work dc 1 on each of the 4 sts newly added. See fig 10.
After every 1: decrease 2 sts on both sides of underarm centre.

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See complete sleeve with border in fig 11.

The complete pullover as in fig 1 is ready.

If you think that neck is more than sufficient to pass the head  then you may also add puff border on neck line also.
It looks so beautiful that I am so eager to see when my grand daughter wears it! Don't know when will be the next meeting 😔.
The following video may help you to make this.

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Plate Decor with Puff Flowers

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Hello friends,
In crochet, Puff flowers are so cute and have variety of uses. Here I have one more plate decor (meherap) see fig 1, I made with puff flowers. In India and particularly in Maharashtra there is a tradition of drawing rangoli about the lunch or dinner plate when some one special is invited. Now due to busy schedule it is not possible many times so these crochet plate decors will be very useful in that case.

For more designs of plate decor please read my posts,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=plate+decor

Some more uses of puff flowers are in for patch work on sweater, decorate photo frame, Hair clips and one more plate decor. For these photos please read my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=puff+flower
Puff flower pattern is already explained in above post, so here I shall only write the pattern of the green stem in the plate decor.

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Make chains for the required length, here I made 15" long.
Slip st 1 in 4 chs starting from second ch, ch 4, sl st on each ch starting from second (that is 3 sl sts), sl st in the starting st, centre, from where ch 4 are worked. Again ch 4 and 3 sl st, forth sl st at cnetre. See fig 2.
Now make sl sts on main stem (4-5, you can vary that as per

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your choice) and same leaf as above. 3 leaves made, Fig 3.
Then ch 9 to make another 3 leaves pattern, sl st 4 starting from second ch, ch 4 .....  Repeat as aboove. Fig 4. Three sets of three leaves made, fig 5.

Sl Sts 7/8 on main stem. Then repeat as you want the design.

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Delebrately we kept some space vaccent or we can say with less leaves because there we can place our puff flowers. See fig 6.
Then place 4-5 puff flowers, the beautiful plate decor is ready.

The following video may help you.

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Knitted Cardigan 25

Knitted Baby Sweater with Leaves Yoke

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Hello friends
After so many days I have diverted myself from crochet to knitting and made this beautiful baby sweater.. This sweater is top down and yoke type. It's yoke consists of leaves so we may call it Lotus Design Sweater.
I have already made lotus design baby cap. Those who are interested may please see my video.
https://youtu.be/4HEujtQowy0
This sweater is for one year baby with height 12" and width 11". It was made in 4 ply wool with UK 10 number needles.

Pattern: CO 79 sts,

R1 (RS) to R4: All K

R5: All K when last 4 sts remain, YOK2tog (for buttonhole), K2

R6: All K

R7 (RS): Slip (Sl) 1, K6, [YOK2tog] repeat till last 7 sts remain, K6, P1

R8, R10, R12 … R18 all rows: Sl 1, K6, P all till last 7 sts, K6, P1.

R9: Sl1, K6, K2, YO K1, YO [ K5, YO, K1, YO] repeat 10 times, K2, K6, P1. (79+22=101 sts)

R11: Sl 1, K6, K3, YO, K1, YO, [K7, YO K1, YO] repeat 10 times, K3, K6, P1. (101+22=123 sts)

R13: Sl 1, K6, K4, YO, K1, YO, [K9, YO K1, YO] repeat 10 times, K4, K6, P1. (123+22=145 sts)

R15: Sl 1, K6, K5, YO, K1, YO, [K11, YO K1, YO] repeat 10 times, K5, K6, P1. (145+22=167 sts)

R17: Sl 1, K6, K6, YO, K1, YO, [K13, YO K1, YO] repeat 10 times, K6, K6, P1. (167+22=189 sts)

R19: Sl 1, K6, [YO, SSK, K11, K2tog, YO, K1] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K11, K2tog, YO, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R20: Sl1, K6, K1, (P13, K3) repeat 10 times, P13, K1, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R21: Sl 1, K6, K1, [YO, SSK, K9, K2tog, YO, K3] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K9, K2tog, YO, K1, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R22: Sl1, K6, K2, (P11, K5) repeat 10 times, P11, K2, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R23: Sl 1, K6, K2, [YO, SSK, K7, K2tog, YO, K5] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K7, K2tog, YO, K2, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R24: Sl1, K6, K3, (P9, K7) repeat 10 times, P9, K3, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R25: Sl 1, K6, K3, [YO, SSK, K5, K2tog, YO, K7] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K5, K2tog, YO, K3, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R26: Sl1, K6, K4, (P7, K9) repeat 10 times, P7, K4, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R27: Sl 1, K6, K4, [YO, SSK, K3, K2tog, YO, K9] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K3, K2tog, YO, K4, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R28: Sl1, K6, K5, (P5, K11) repeat 10 times, P5, K5, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R29: Sl 1, K6, K5, [YO, SSK, K1, K2tog, YO, K11] repeat 10 times, YO, SSK, K1, K2tog, YO, K5, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R30: Sl1, K6, K6, (P3, K13) repeat 10 times, P3, K6, K6, P1. (189 sts)

R31: Sl 1, K6, K6, [YO, K3tog, YO, K13] repeat 10 times, YO, K3tog, YO, K6, K6, P1 (189 sts)

R32: Sl1, K6, K7, (P1, K15) repeat 10 times, P1, K7, K6, P1. (189 sts)

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R33: Sl 1, K6, K6, [YO, K2tog] repeat till last 7 sts, K6, P1 (189 sts)

189 = Front 30+ Sleeve 38+ Back 53+ other Sleeve 38+ other Front 30.

R34:Sl 1, all K, last st P

In row 35 increase 3 sts as under arm on both sides, skip 38 sleeves sts and join all other sts.

Total sts will be = 30+3 under arm+53+3 under arm+30= 119

Also in row 35 increase 1 sts at the edge point of each leaf by M1 method (Make 1)

After row 35, total sts= 119+11=130.

After 35 rows that is after yoke height is 3.7”.

[Next work stockinette st for 3”-3.5” then one row of YO, K2tog except first and last 7 sts.] repeat this 2 more times so that the further height will be 7”-7.5”. Hence the total length of the sweater will be 11”. Then make Garter stitch border so that the total length is 12”.

Another video for this sweater is also given, you may refer that.

Crochet Bag 17

 Red Purse with Ring Handle

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Hello friends,
This is my last purse I made for Sankranti gift. For Sankranti festival please read my post on this blog,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=sankranti
I have two metalic rings with diameter 4.5", see fig 2, which I want to use. So I made this purse with ring handle.


Pattern: 
Make 18” chains, here I have to make 80 chs.+1ch (Fig 3)

R1: sc1 in each st starting from second. (80 sts) ch 1 turn,

Place marker after 15 sts from both ends. Fig 4.

R2:Slip Stitch (sl st) in back loop of each st till first marker, sc 1 in back loop of each st till another marker, sl st in back loop of each

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st till end, (80 sts) ch1 turn,

for back loop stitch, see fig 5.

Repeat row 2 again and again till the length of sl st side is 5.5” (length of sc side, means middle part is obviously greater than this), fig 6 and 7.

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Last row: sc 1 in each st, remove markers. Bind off.

Cover the Handle Ring: If your ring is wooden or decorative then no need to cover it but for the simple metallic ring we have to cover it by sc in that ring (just like sc in a magic loop). See fig 8. After covering the whole ring, note that all sts are either outside of ring or inside (most properly outside) then bind off. Fig 9.

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Cover both rings. You may cover by contrast color also.

Insert the ring and sew by folding over 1.5”, for both rings. fig 10.

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Turn wrong side out and sew the sides, keeping half an inch open. Turn back. Fig 11.

Sew a beautiful show button or make a crochet flower of contrast color and sew it below the ring. 

The beautiful purse as in fig 1 is ready.

Fig 11

The following video may help you to make this purse.

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Crochet Bag 16

Pink Purse

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Hello friends, one more beautiful bag which I loved and I made it with some changes in,
https://youtu.be/NYLpPRPXPkk

I totally changed the belt and attached long tassels.
For this bag I used left over yarn from the fair isle sweater which I made for daughter of my sister. See it in my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=fair+isle
 and crochet hook 3.5 mm.

Pattern: 
R1: In a magic loop, ch 3, dc 11, close by sl st in third ch. (12 sts). Ch 3 turn,
R2: dc 1 in same st, dc 2 in each st till end, close, (24 sts), ch 3 turn,
R3: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next st, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next) repeat till end, close, (36 sts), ch 3 turn,
R4: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 2 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 2 sts) repeat till end, close, (48 sts), ch 3 turn, fig 2
R5: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 3 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 3 sts) repeat till end, close, (60 sts), ch 3 turn,

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R6: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 4 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 4 sts) repeat till end, close, (72 sts), ch 3 turn,
R7: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 5 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 5 sts) repeat till end, close, (84 sts), ch 3 turn,
R8: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 6 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 6 sts) repeat till end, close, (96 sts), ch 3 turn,
R9: dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next 7 sts, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in next 7 sts) repeat till end, close, (108 sts), ch 2 turn, see fig 3.

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Now we shall not work whole round, we shall work to and fro on 72 sts only and go on decreasing sts.
R10:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 7 sts) repeat 8 times, (64 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 4
R11:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 6 sts) repeat 8 times, (56 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 5

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R12:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 5 sts) repeat 8 times, (48 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 6
R13:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 4 sts) repeat 8 times, (40 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 7
R14:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 3 sts) repeat 8 times, (32 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 8
R15:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next 2 sts) repeat 8 times, (24 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 9

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R16:(2dctog, dc 1 in each of next st) repeat 8 times, (16 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 10.
R17:(2dctog) repeat 8 times, (8 sts) ch 2 turn, fig 11.

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R18: 8dctog, bind off, fig 12

Then we use remaining part of the round as a cover (lid) and the bag takes beautiful shape.

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 Then we make 10 chs as a button hole depending on the size of the button.
See fig 13.
Cord: 
R1: In a magic loop make ch 1 and 5 scs, close.
R2: sc 1 in each of the next sts (without closing by sl st after 5 scs)

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After 6 rounds it will look as in fig 14. Repeat the same round till the required length of the belt.

Lastly make 5 sc tog so that there will be pointed shape, pass it through the wooden bead and the sew it to one end. Similarly sew other end. Also sew the show button type big button at the centre.

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Pink purse is ready. Hope that you will like this.

The following video may help you.

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Crochet Beautiful Black Draw String Bag 15 (Batawa)

Black Batawa Specially for Sankranti

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Hello friends,
One more creation is this Batava, specially black for Sankranti. I have written many things about this festival in my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=sankranti+festival
One more thing about this festival is, in Maharashtra ladies wear black sarees on this occassion. Black colour has very much importance on this festival. Otherwise black is supposed to be in aspesious on other days by Hindus. Two reasons are given for the importance of black colour.
1. To fight with evil, darkness wear black
and other reason is more scientific,
2. This is the end of winter and beginning of spring so cold wave is on it's top hence to face cold wear black which is absorbant of heat and we feel warm.
So beautiful black sarees, paithanis with beautiful contrast borders are gifted to the newly married girl on her first Sankranti after marriage. See fig 2,3 and 4.

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So if your daughter or daughter in law is newly married then you can make such Black and green or black and red batava for her as per the saree you purchased.
For this batava, I used 4 ply Vardhamaan black wool 50 gms and green 25 gms and 3.5 mm hook. We also need two beads, instead of that also you can make two small pom-pom.  It's size is, height 7" and diameter of base 5.5".

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 Pattern:
R1: In a magic loop ch3, dc 11, close by slip st in third ch. (12 sts) ch 3turn,
R2: dc 1 in same st, dc 2 in each of the next st till end, close by sl st. (24 sts). ch 3 turn,
R3:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in next) repeat till end, close by sl st, (36 sts), ch 3 turn, fig 5.
R4:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 2 sts) repeat till end,

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close by sl st, (48 sts), ch 3 turn,fig 6.
R5:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 3 sts) repeat till end, close by sl st, (60 sts), ch 3 turn,
R6:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 4 sts) repeat till end, close by sl st, (72 sts), ch 3 turn, fig 5.5".
Measure the diameter, if it is 5.5 or as you want then stop the increase round, otherwise make one more increase round as (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 5 sts). Then the sts will be 84. But in my case I stopped after 6 rounds.
R7 to R9: ch 3, dc 1 in each st, close by sl st (72 sts). See fig 8.

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 R10: ch 3, dc 1 in each of the next 6 sts, (ch 1, skip 1 st, dc 1 in each of the next 7 sts) repeat till last st remain, ch 1 skip that st, close by sl st.
After this round we can see, 1 window, 7 dcs. Fig 9.

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 R11: ch 4 (3 as first dc and ch 1 for window) skip 1 st, dc 1 on each of the next 3 sts, [ (ch 1 skip 1 st dc 1 in next) 3 times, dc 1 in next 2 sts] repeat till end, (ch 1, skip 1 st, dc 1) one more time, ch 1 close by sl st,


That is in this row, there will be 3 windows, 3 dcs. Fig 10.
R12: ch 4 (as above), (skip 1 st, dc 1 in next, ch 1) repeat till end, skip  1st and close.
In this round we formed all windows. Fig 11. Then join green colour yarn.

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R13: ch 3, dc a in gap, dc a on dc of previous row, {ch 2, (then we have to make flower with 5 peteals as shown in fig 13.) [YO insert in window number 1 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long as dc)] 3 times, petal 1 made now [ YO insert in window number 2 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long double dc)] repeat 3 times, petal 2 made, in widow 2, with long st double that of dc, ( fig 14), then [ YO insert in window number 3 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long treble dc)] repeat 3 times, in widow 3, with long st treble that of dc, ( as in fig 13), petal 3 made, similarly make petal 4 in window number 4 and then petal 5 in window number 5 of fig 15.

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 Now there are 31 sts on the hook, YO and pass through all of them, ch 1 and fix the flower, fig 16. Ch2, skip 1 window as in fig 13, dc 1 on dc of previous round, dc 1 in gap, dc 1 on previous round dc, see fig 17} repeat all over, close by sl st. Join black color.

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R14: As round 10 (window 1 dcs 7) but this time window should be on the 3 green dcs of previous round, see fig 18.
If necessary go at the required space by slip st.
R15: as round 11.
R16: as round 12. Join green.
R17: as round 13.
New flower will be in between the two flowers of the round 13. See fig 19

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R18 to R22: as R7 .
R23: as round 12.
R24 and R25: as R7.
Bind off.
Now for bottom border join green colour at some st after 6 round.

Border: ch 1 [sc 1 in 3 sts (starting from first st), 4ch-picot] repeat till end, bind off.

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Fig 22

See fig 21.
Make two cords of simply chains of length 20". Fig 22.

Fig 23

 Also make two tassels with green or black or both mix colours. I used both yarns for tassels.

Now thread one cord through the windows of round 23 when it is half the way thread a bead in that, thread the other part, tie the two ends of the cord and also tie tassel to that cord, it will look as fig 23.

Then thread other cord starting from the bead side, thread the bead in half way, complete as first cord.
Your beautiful bag is ready as shown in fig 1.
The following video may help you.

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