​Short Turquoise Vest

You’ll need:

100g of turquoise yarn (46% cotton, 35% viscose; 400m/100g);

100g of the same yarn, but in light-blue color;

50g of the same yarn, but in white color;

Crochet hook 2.

Size: S.

Stitches control: 24 sts x 16 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Front and Back

Make central part as one-piece cloth from up to down.

Make 192 chain sts + 3 chain sts increase with turquoise yarn, make 1 row of treble crochets. Then, work with relief pattern due to the scheme, alternate 1 turquoise and 1 white row. At 20 cm height, finish your work. Make 1 row of treble crochets along the set-up row with white yarn. Then, change to light-blue yarn and make 1 row of treble crochets. After that, divide your work into 3 parts: 46 sts for each half of front and 100 sts for back. Then, finish each detail separately.

Upper Part of Back

Work with treble crochets with light-blue yarn, increase 1 treble crochet from both sides in the 6^th, 8^th, 10^th and 12^th rows. In 16 rows from beginning of arm-hole, finish your work.

Upper Part of Left Front

Make increases from right side in the same way, as for back. Make left side in symmetry. Finish your work at the height of back.

Upper Part of Right Front

Make in symmetry to the left front.

Assembly

Make shoulder seams. Fasten with 1 row of single crochets with light-blue yarn. Fasten lower edge of vest with 1 row of treble crochets with turquoise yarn the 1 row of single crochets with light-blue. Fasten the edges of front with 1 row of single crochets and 1 row of treble crochets with light-blue yarn. Fold the edges of front, using lapels, fasten them (see the photo).