浪漫知性的 粗毛绒钩针披肩（钩织过程）

 

 

 

To achieve the beautiful ribbing of this sweater, you work single crochets in the back loops only.  As a reminder, the back loops are the loops further away from you while the front loops are the ones closer to you when you’re crocheting.

You crochet row by row in the back loops only, turning your work as you go.  How simple can this pattern be?  It’s the perfect project to work on when you’re watching tv or having a conversation since you don’t need to keep the count and it works up so quickly since you’re using chunky yarn and such a large crochet hook.  Doesn’t the ribbing give such beautiful texture?

You keep adding rows until you are happy with the width of your sweater.  In the end, I ended up with 56 rows measuring 31"/79 cm across.  Lengthwise, my rectangle was 38.5"/98 cm (remember that this is capable of stretching quite a bit too).

Next, you fold the rectangle in half.  It is very important that you fold your rectangle in half so that the rows are running vertically!  I noticed that quite a few people on Ravelry were folding their rectangles the wrong way as their rows were running horizontally.  This meant that their resulting sweaters were very wide and short!

 

I seamed up 11"/28 cm and left 8"/20 cm for the arm hole on each side.

This is how you wear the piece- now it’s looking more sweater-like :)  You’ll notice that the the rows now run horizontally in the front but vertically in the back.  When I was working on this piece and periodically measuring it to my body to check for size, it seemed as though it might end up being too short.  However, we learned from our first experience, and we knew that it was capable of stretching a lot later on.  Thus, don’t be too worried if you think your sweater seems it might be a tad short…

 

 

Row 1 is complete!

Next I alternated front post double crochets with back post double crochets in Row 2 to begin creating a ribbed effect.  

I did the same thing for Rows 3 and 4 to really emphasize the ribbing.

The ribbed collar is complete!

You can fold the collar up…

And the ribbing is on the other side too :)  I think this ribbed collar is a really nice addition, don’t you?  I’m really happy with how it turned out!