Crochet Red Dress with White Collar
You’ll need:
500g of coral Brilliant yarn (45% wool, 55% acryl; 380m/100g);
100g of the same yarn, but in white color;
Crochet hook 2,5;
1 button;
2 snaps;
Tapestry needle.
Size: S.
Note: make pattern design in full dimensions.
Instructions
Back and Front
Make 212 chain sts with coral yarn and circle in the ring. Make with double crochets in circle rows. At 10 cm height, make decreases, making every 19th and 20th double crochets together. Repeat 1 decrease in every 7th row. At 45 cm height, there should 152 crochets left. Crochet 10 cm straight. Then, double every 20th crochet. Repeat increases in every 7th row. At 73 cm height, there should be 168 crochets in work. Then, mark side crochets, divide your work to front and back and finish them separately with straight and reversed rows.
Back
Make decreases, matching with pattern design. At 10 cm height of arm-hole, divide your work in half and finish each side separately. At 18 cm height of arm-hole, finish your work. Make another side in symmetry.
Front
Make arm-holes in the same way, as for back. At 10 cm height of arm-hole, make neck-hole, matching with pattern design. At 18 cm height of arm-hole, finish your work. Make another side in symmetry.
Sleeves
Make 56 chain sts with coral yarn and work with double crochets with straight and reversed rows. Increase 1 st from both sides for sleeve chamfers in the 4th and 6th rows. At 7 cm height, make sleeve cap, matching with pattern design. At 7 cm height of work, make sleeve cap, matching with pattern design. At 13 cm height of sleeve cap, finish your work.
Assembly
Make shoulder and side seams, sew up the sleeves.
Collar
Mark the center of neck-hole in front, work with double crochets with white yarn from this point to the cut on back (about 48 crochets). Turn, continue work with double crochets with straight and reversed rows, double every 10th crochet in the 2nd, 4th and 6th rows. Make 7 rows, finish your work. Make the second half of collar in symmetry. Fasten back neck-hole with 1 row of single crochets with coral yarn. Sew button, make hanging loop of 6 chain sts from opposite side. Fasten the edges of collar with 1 row of single crochets with white yarn. Fasten the edges of sleeves with 1 row of single crochets with white yarn, 1 row of double crochets and 1 row of single crochets. For belt, make 150-170 chain sts with white yarn, make 5 rows of double crochets. Then, fasten belt with 1 row of single crochets. Sew snaps. Make decorative seam with coral yarn along edges of collar, sleeves and belt.