Crocheting a Cardigan

I got the crochet bug at the beginning of this year. I was in a knitting slump and discovered videos on YouTube explaining crochet. I started with hats, and scarves and have moved on to cardigans.
This pattern is a paid pattern, but I fell in love with it and the designer has so many sizes (from 3 month baby size to adult 4XL tall). The designer is Ashlea Konecny and her website/blog is HeartHookHome (link) She has lots of free patterns available along with paid ones. So go over and take a look!

Cozy Coed Cardigan

I’m still not as confident with my crochet skills so I’m using 100% acrylic yarns. Right now my favorite is from Hobby Lobby. Their “I Love This Yarn” worsted weight. I had read good reviews on it and made my first cardigan out of it. After wearing it every day all winter I’m giving this yarn a big thumbs up. Especially for price and care in addition to the large selection of colors and prints, tweeds, etc.…..Go check it out!

This only took 4 skeins of worsted yarn. Their skeins of the solid colors are large 7 oz. and approx. 355 yards per skein, That is about 1420 yards of worsted weight #4 yarn to make this.

I did add patch pockets that I sewed all around except for the “ribbed” area at the top outside of the pocket. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I’m planning on adding a zipper, but you know it takes me longer to get a zipper in than crochet the sweater. hehe

For the patch pockets I chained 25, then hdc in each stitch (making a total of 24 hdc), I continued until I wanted the ribbing part, for that I took one third of the total stitches, which for me was 8 stitches and started doing a fphdc, bphdc x4 then 8 hdc for around 4 rows. I did the mirror image for the other pocket and sewed them on.

No zipper yet but planning on making another one of these!
May your needles fly as fast a dragonflies!

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